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- Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/technology/early-facebook-google-employees-fight-tech.html 175 comments
- Pictures from the McLaren Technology Center https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/6qo2kd/pictures_from_the_mclaren_technology_center/ 13 comments formula1
- McLaren Technology Center Arial View Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=bV7SuTTwCKA&%3Bu=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DjBdNwsRuAlI%26feature%3Dshare%26list%3DPLSVMtxxe75upzLpvQ5kN1DwEUltQKkHgd%26index%3D6 17 comments formula1
- WVU Today | WVU joins BRAIN Center to advance technology for neurological disorders https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2023/10/19/wvu-joins-brain-center-to-advance-technology-for-neurological-disorders 2 comments futurology
- Google Streetview at McLaren Technology Center! https://twitter.com/mclarenf1/status/364367473782431744 4 comments formula1
- New Danish NATO Center for Quantum Technology https://investindk.com/insights/new-danish-nato-center-for-quantum-technology 3 comments futurology
- AMD to showcase Next-Gen Data Center and AI technology on June 13 - VideoCardz.com https://videocardz.com/press-release/amd-to-showcase-next-gen-data-center-and-ai-technology-on-june-13 18 comments amd
- Center for Democracy and Technology files lawsuit against Trump's executive order on social media https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-trump-lawsuit/center-for-democracy-and-technology-files-lawsuit-against-trumps-executive-order-on-social-media-iduskbn2392v9 3 comments politics
- The cube, one of the most technologically advanced data centers owned by the Portugal Telecom. Walkthrough with 2 principal architects http://videos.sapo.pt/s9euKvc6iYvRtr2FgYZi 3 comments sysadmin
- Battle for the window manager…raw graphical technologies like Compiz/Beryl versus user centered approach, like Metisse. http://tmenguy.free.fr/techblog/?p=322 35 comments linux
- Google is spending $1 billion on a new data center in Kansas City | A significant technology investment with hundreds of new job opportunities https://www.techspot.com/news/102364-google-spending-1-billion-new-data-center-kansas.html 2 comments technology
- [Linn] Robert Covington, Jordan Miller, Kobe Brown, and Moussa Diabate are here opening a new technology center at a middle school in Hawaii: "Creative Lab for Innovating, Planning, Programming & Engaging Remarkable Students" https://twitter.com/joeylinn_/status/1710109655882768644?s=19&t=a9h-97CLQxeD44DqkD0_Qg 10 comments nba
- July 2022 US Labor Market Update: Job Postings are Sliding in Tech Hubs - Traditional centers of technology jobs are seeing substantial declines in job postings on Indeed as the appetite to hire tech workers fades https://www.hiringlab.org/2022/07/28/july-2022-us-labor-market-update/ 105 comments webdev
- Nokia Bell Labs Selected to Develop Energy-Efficient Data Center Technologies https://njbmagazine.com/njb-news-now/nokia-bell-labs-selected-to-develop-energy-efficient-data-center-technologies/ 3 comments technology
- F1 teams are using data to make better decisions — like McLarenF1 + Splunk . Splunk takes over 1.5TB of data generated by the MCL35’s 300+ sensors and gets it over to the 30+ engineers back at McLaren Technology Center in Woking. https://readqualifier.com/p/how-formula-1-teams-are-using-data 8 comments formula1
- Synthetic Living Organisms: Heralds of a Revolution in Technology and Ethics (w/ Tufts biologist Dr. Michael Levin) — UCF Center for Ethics speaker/Q&A series starting Oct 12, open to the public https://ethicscenter.research.ucf.edu/speaker-series/ 2 comments futurology
- New bionics center established at MIT with $24 million gift. Interdisciplinary research center funded by philanthropist Lisa Yang aims to mitigate disability through technologies that marry human physiology with electro-mechanics. https://news.mit.edu/2021/new-bionics-center-established-mit-24-million-gift-0923 5 comments futurology
- The New York City mayoral candidate in the lead, Eric Adams, has promised that in one year New York will be “the center of all technology,” including “the center of bitcoins.” He will compete with Miami where Mayor Francis Suarez had a head start turning Miami into a bitcoin hub https://news.bitcoin.com/mayoral-front-runner-new-york-city-bitcoin-center/?utm_source=onesignalpush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=pushnotifications 21 comments cryptocurrency
- Scientists have developed a new microchip real-time technology platform that uses 10-fold less reagents compared to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-approved tube-based RT-PCR tests, and reports results in as little as 30 minutes. Its accuracy was 100% predictive in clinical samples. https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/new-testing-platform-for-covid-19-is-an-efficient-and-accurate-alternative-to-gold-standard-rt-qpcr-tests 3 comments science
- The most important company you've never heard of is being dragged into the U.S.-China rivalry. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., or TSMC, makes more than half the world’s contracted semiconductor chips and lies at the center of the technology supply chain https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-17/taiwan-chips-tsmc-china-us 16 comments business
- A voting technology company at the center of election conspiracy theories demanded a retraction from Fox News, accusing them of 'a concerted disinformation campaign' https://www.businessinsider.com/smartmatic-voting-company-demands-retraction-fox-news-oan-newsmax-2020-12 12 comments politics
- [OT] In addition to reportedly putting a stake in its Formula 1 team on the market, McLaren has listed its iconic McLaren Technology Center headquarters for sale at $259M https://www.thedrive.com/news/36323/mclarens-magnificent-headquarters-are-for-sale-if-youve-got-259-million 6 comments formula1
- China says it has been giving essential workers shots of an experimental coronavirus vaccine since late July. Zheng Zhongei, the head of the National Health Commission science and technology center, told state-run CCTV broadcaster "emergency use" of a vaccine was green-lit on July 22. https://www.businessinsider.com/china-giving-coronavirus-vaccine-candidate-key-workers-2020-8 4 comments worldnews
- Astronomers are developing new projects to broaden the search for alien life. Thanks to new technologies, more data, and better search methods, the odds of finding alien signals this decade is 1,000 times what they were last decade, says Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center. https://astronomy.com/news/2020/03/new-projects-broaden-the-search-for-alien-signals-from-space 2 comments aliens
- Astronomers are developing new projects to broaden the search for alien life. Thanks to new technologies, more data, and better search methods, the odds of finding alien signals this decade is 1,000 times what they were last decade, says Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center. https://astronomy.com/news/2020/03/new-projects-broaden-the-search-for-alien-signals-from-space 161 comments space
- New Tech Centers Sprout in Europe: New technology centers are mushrooming throughout Europe, boosting office markets in unlikely places https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-tech-centers-sprout-in-europe-1520337602 25 comments europe
- How Companies Are Using Technology to Make Workers 'Happy' in Their Crappy Jobs: Call center jobs are about to get a lot "friendlier," and maybe a lot more creepy too. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/big-data-social-physics-humanyze-tenacity-employment 35 comments technology
- Science AMA Series: I’m Kevin Lothridge, forensic chemist and CEO of the National Forensic Science Technology Center. I’m here to talk about the challenges synthetic drugs are creating for forensic laboratories and crime scene investigators. AMA! https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/4x7pns/science_ama_series_im_kevin_lothridge_forensic/ 44 comments science
- Science AMA Series: I'm Adam Gazzaley, Director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at UC San Francisco. I’m bridging the gap between technology and neuroscience with video games. AMA! http://neuroscapelab.com/projects/neuro-drummer/ 81 comments science
- On Thursday, if all goes to plan, China's Chang'e 5-T1 will blast off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan. The spacecraft will fly around the back of the moon and return to Earth. Why? To test technology for a lunar sample return mission in 2017. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26420-china-set-to-launch-probe-on-round-trip-to-the-moon.html#.veuqkfnf9ec 31 comments space
- IBM doubles down on Linux. IBM rolls out Power Systems Linux support and training across its customer-facing technology centers. http://www.zdnet.com/ibm-doubles-down-on-linux-7000033088/ 50 comments linux
- Imax Faces a Threat in China - "Imax’s misappropriation claims are centered on Gary Tsui, a former Imax software engineer who is accused of taking the company’s technology and using it to found or provide engineering help to low-cost Chinese rivals." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/business/media/imax-faces-a-threat-in-china.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes 27 comments worldnews
- Cloud computing has crossed the threshold from a technology issue to a matter of political and cultural debate. It is at the center of the controversy over the National Security Agency’s collection of data in the name of counterterrorism. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-cloud/2014/01/03/dd826052-7191-11e3-8b3f-b1666705ca3b_story.html?hpid=z3 15 comments politics
- [Intel-gfx] [ANNOUNCE]Chris Wilson of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center has released the xf86-video-intel 2.99.903 as the latest 3.0 pre-release for their X.Org driver http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2013-september/034071.html 3 comments linux
- Intel Unveils Optical Technology to Kill Copper Cables and Make Data Centers Run Faster http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518941/intels-laser-chips-could-make-data-centers-run-better/ 425 comments technology
- The International Center for 9/11 Studies has posted four new videos on its YouTube page. All of the videos were discovered in the materials received by the Center in response to its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) http://911blogger.com/news/2011-03-21/international-center-911-studies-posts-new-videos 3 comments politics
- 5 Terrifying Online Trends (Invented By the News Media). "Today, the bogeyman is the Internet. If there's a story involving crime or violence against a child that has even the most remote connection to some kind of networked technology, the technology itself becomes the center of the story." http://www.cracked.com/article_18982_5-terrifying-online-trends-invented-by-news-media.html 3 comments technology
- And that which I speak about is shade. Why isn't Phoenix the shade technology center of the universe? Why are structures built here that cry out: Hey, sun gods, fry us every June. July, August and September, too. http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/blog/business/2010/05/heres_my_bright_idea_for_economic_development.html 7 comments reddit.com
- Astronauts will soar spaceward in commercial spacecraft while NASA develops technology so humans can venture to Mars and out into the solar system, President Barack Obama told a space conference Thursday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/about/obamaspeechfeature.html 3 comments space
- On March 11, 2009 Dallas FBI Special Agent Allyn Lynd obtained a warrant to search and seize equipment at four Data Centers in the Dallas area. Every last piece of technology -- down to the power-strips -- was seized. Regardless of who owned it. http://www.securityfocus.tv/dallascolo/ 9 comments reddit.com