Nov 15, 2013 | TabTimes
Today’s managers “don’t have to be chained to the control room at all time,” said Mark Bernardo, General Manager of GE’s Intelligent Platforms division, during a featured presentation at the TabletBiz conference in New York this week. Originally, GE...
Feb 21, 2012 | Forbes
Let’s say you’re an evil Imperial overlord in the Star Wars universe, and you want to keep the rebels in line. You should build something they fear, say, a Death Star. How much will advancing your evil plans set you back? Short answer: it’s more expensive than you can...
Feb 15, 2012 | Forbes
CleanSpace One Space is a dirty place. Over 16,000 pieces of debris over 10 cm wide have been left behind since Sputnik took to the skies in 1957. And now the Swiss want to do something about it. Scientists with the Swiss Space Center at the École Polytechnique...
Feb 9, 2012 | Forbes
Colossus image via Wikipedia During World War II, the Nazis used complex codes to obfuscate commands, and cracking those codes was one of the keys to the Allies’ success. This codebreaking was accomplished in part by Colossus, the world’s first digital, programmable...
Feb 7, 2012 | Forbes
Image via Wikipedia Recently, over 23,000 people signed an online petition to ask the UK government to pardon Alan Turing for homosexuality, considered the crime of “gross indecency” by the Labouchere Amendment of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885....
