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Thursday, June 2, 2005
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Japan aims for world's fastest supercomputer: "Japan will begin research in June to build a supercomputer capable of crunching numbers about 30 times faster than IBM's Blue Gene/ L, the world's current fastest supercomputer, the Japanese government has claimed."
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Google's lock on the past: "Requests to wipe the cyberslate clean generally stem from a desire to delete the past. After all, how do you reinvent yourself when the old you is but a mouse click away? The answer, as savvy Web users have figured out, is to electronically shape and edit your online self. But first, you must give up the quest to erase all unflattering content. It is almost impossible." [New Media Musings]
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Using iPod to escape reality -- Comment()
Yesterday appeared my column on using IT to escape reality (in Finnish, Tartu todellisuuteen!). I got a lot of feedback from an earlier column on the iPod. Many thought that I didn't understand technology, how iPod can be used to shape reality and mood the way the user wants. Well, I want to seize reality, not to escape it.
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