As information becomes more digital, public libraries are striving to redefine their roles. A small number are working to create “hackerspaces,” where do-it-yourselfers share sophisticated tools and their expertise.
The Allen County Public Library, which serves the city of Fort Wayne, Ind., has a modest hackerspace inside a trailer in its parking lot.
In a press conference today, featuring big names like Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Facebook announced it’ll commence engineering operations from its New York office in early 2012. There are currently 100 Facebook employees based in New York City, but they work largely in sales and marketing — what the company announced is Facebook’s first engineering office on the East Coast (in addition to Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., the social network also has engineers working out of Seattle). Faceb Find more…
The German courts have proven to be some of the most heated in the current rash of mobile patent suits, and here is one more case to cement that reputation even further: the patent-holding company IPCom says that it plans to execute an existing injunction on HTC to prohibit the company from selling devices as soon as it can—although HTC has already issued a statement dismissing the threat.
German patent owner IPCom says that its decided to enforce an injunction on HTC devices, which include both smartphones and tablets, running on both the Android OS and Windows Phone. The injunction order dates back from 2009 and IPCom today said it wanted it put into effect “in the shorted possible time”, according to a statement from the company (via Reuters). At th
Financial reporting has long been a vital part of any business, and on-time, accurate results are of the utmost importance. This highly pressurised, deadline driven environment has always been a pain point for financial executives, and it has only become more complicated over the years, with annual reports and board books compounded by statutory and regulatory reports, and recently the need to conduct sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting as well.
This ‘last mile’ of reporting has traditionally been dominated by manual processes, tight deadlines and stressful conditions, and has always been time consuming and inefficient. Rep
Discovery Channel’s MythBusters have taken on more than 700 myths, from how hard it is to find a needle in a haystack (it’s hard) to whether toothbrushes have fecal matter on them (they do). Series hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage talk about the show with host Ira Flatow.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV PROGRAM “MYTHBUSTERS”)
NARRATOR: It’s that familiar “MythBusters” waiting game.
JAIME HYNEMAN: That sewer is getting pretty full of methane.
NARRATOR: Small scale proved that the perfect stoichiometric ratio set manholes flying. However, will the full scale equivalent, 100 cubic feet of methane, prove just as effective?
ADAM SAVAGE: Shall we do it?
HYNEMAN: I think it’s time.
SAVAGE: All right.
