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What Would Happen If The World Lost Oxygen For 5 Seconds? (by BuzzFeedVideo)
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Top Technology Trends Impacting Information Infrastructure in 2013 According to Gartner
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Gartner, Inc. has identified the top technology trends that will play key roles in modernizing information management (IM) in 2013 and beyond, making the role of information governance increasingly important.
According to the PR announcement accompanying the report, there are 9 technologies in this list:
- Big Data
- Modern Information Infrastructure
- Semantic Technologies
- The Logical Data Warehouse
- NoSQL DBMSs
- In-Memory Computing
- Chief Data Officer and Other Information-Centric Roles
- Information Stewardship Applications
- Information Valuation/Infonomics
Notable technologies missing:
- RDBMS
- Data-oriented appliances
Data-as-a-Service
Note: the last two could be part of the larger category “Modern Information Infrastructure”, but without access to the report I cannot tell if they are part of it or not.
Analytic databases.
Data virtualization
Note: Gartner touts the “Logical Data Warehouse” concept for a while and it superseeds analytic databases and data virtualization
MDM.
Note: I could see though this being included in the “Information Stewardship Applications” category
Data visualization.
Note: most probably this is part of the “Information Valuation/Infonomics” category.
I ended up wondering if there’s any data related technology left out from this list.
Original title and link: Top Technology Trends Impacting Information Infrastructure in 2013 According to Gartner (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)
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Fully connect your home to your smartphone with Ninja Blocks ($200). This compact, completely customizable/hackable device allows you to connect with a variety of sensors and actuators to monitor and control things around your home, all directly from your cell phone. The starter kit includes a temperature and humidity sensor, a wireless motion sensor, and a wireless door bell; it’s and affordable to add more as you need. Of course, hardware is just part of the solution, which is why the app lets you set rules for controlling different items and appliances, and can alert you when someone’s at your door, when a door or window is open, or even if it’s getting too hot in your wine room.
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The world’s most famous living scientist, physicist, cosmologist and obsessor of black holes Stephen Hawking turns 71 today. We should all take a moment to appreciate all of his accomplishments, the knowledge he has and shares with the world.
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
this man is such a badass.
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This animal is Dendronotus frondosus is a species of nudibranch or sea slug as common named. It is a marine gastropod mollusc
photo by zoologist Alexander Semenov
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Coming of Phage
Everything you’ve been taught about phage is wrong. Well, maybe not everything. Heck, maybe you’ve never been taught anything about phage in the first place! But if you’ve ever encountered a story about this family of bacteria-infecting viruses, I’m willing to bet it included a picture much like this:
That geometric lunar lander is the standard illustration of phage such as T7. It looks exotic and alien, a freakish example of biological symmetry, but it’s pretty accurate to hte actual biology: The icosahedral protein head, the protruding neck that it uses to pierce the membrane of its victim so that it can inject its genetic material … and the legs.
Wait a sec, those legs need revising. Some really cool new research by Ian Molineux (who taught my graduate school molecular bio class, btw) says that all those “legs-out”, moon lander drawings of phage probably aren’t right.
In the video above you see that, according to the electron imagery they report in their Science paper, those legs stay tucked up next to the body for most of the free-floating life of the phage. It sort of drags one or two along, waiting to hook onto an appropriate bacterium that it can infect, at which point it extends the rest of the legs to go into full infection mode. To give you an idea of how hard this was to observe, a single phage is only around 20-30 nanometers wide, which means you could fit about 4,000 of them across the width of a single human hair!
It might seem like a small, ho-hum tidbit of research at first, since who really cares about a virus that infects bacteria? But phage are incredibly important. Phage have driven a great deal of the evolution of life on Earth. They are vehicles of gene swapping that have allowed genomes to expand and become more complex. They are veterans of 70+ years of biology research, from back when we first identified DNA as a genetic material to today’s exotic synthetic biology applications. A great deal of what we know about molecular genetics is because of these little guys, and we’re still making the most basic discoveries as to how they function.
Never let anyone tell you that there’s nothing left to discover! We have scarcely begun to fill in the colors, even for the most basic parts of biology’s palette.
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Look what you did.
It’s been an inspiring year.
We’re celebrating the most creative projects and memorable moments on Kickstarter in 2012. Looking back, we couldn’t be prouder of this community or more excited for the future. Thanks to all the creators and backers who make it happen — here’s to 2013!
