Facebook settles FTC Information Privacy Complaint

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11/29/11: Facebook has settled a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission that the social networking giant deceived consumers by promising privacy protections while it shared and made user data more public, according to the FTC.

Artificial Retinas: UO Physics Research

A subject in ch. 11 of our textbook Fluency w/IT is human tri-chromatic color perception.

“A couple minutes with… Richard Taylor" features a UO professor of physics, whose research includes artificial retinas that could help restore eyesight in those with retinal diseases.

JavaScript inherits the earth

Article: JavaScript inherits the earth
From I, Programmer (blog)

CHART OF THE DAY: Why The Newspaper Industry Collapsed

20 Things I Learned About Browsers & the Web in CIS 110

An excuse to test-drive Google Chrome? An HTML5-enabled browser is required.

PetaFlops in the News

Q: How long does each instruction take to execute?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11644252

China claims supercomputer crown

 

China has claimed the top spot on the list of the world's supercomputers.

The title has gone to China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer that is capable of carrying out more than 2.5 thousand trillion calculations a second.
To reach such high speeds the machine draws on more than 7,000 graphics processors and 14,000 Intel chips.

Key Terms to Understand this Story

CPU speeds are dependent upon the type of instructions being executed: some are hard and some are easy.
FLOPS are hard and, in general, more meaningful than MIPS and MOPS.
SI Prefixes and Large Number Names.