Introducing the U.S. Digital Service to GDS
Hadley Beeman by Harry Metcalfe James Duncan and I were invited recently to present to the U.S. Digital Service at their “off-site” meeting near Washington D.C. Sadly, a quick...
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Freeing up unused IP addresses
...in conversation with colleagues in DWP about their extraordinary number of public-facing IPv4 addresses. These addresses are used to number computers, mobile phones, servers and other devices on the internet...
Guest post: D5 and connectivity
...understand how we make best use of this significant national asset. Through this exercise, I found that we have a real opportunity to buy more efficiently and we can now...
This week in tech links: make-up from a 3D printer and a re-designed axe
...warning of the dangers of keeping our heads down, starting at the many screens in our lives. I tend to think we can have both a rich online life, and...
This week in tech links: Augmented Reality helmets and electricity-generating graphene
In the future, firefighters will use Augmented Reality to help them with their dangerous jobs. I don’t know about anybody else, but I’d probably walk around with one of these fancy hats before I walked around in Google glasses. Google …
This week in tech links: slime mold, a 128 GB RAM module and a 30 second phone charger
...slime mold make a 128GB RAM module, like Korean firm SK Hynix has? The Facebook app on your iPhone is disturbingly efficient at draining your battery life. Fortunately there is...
This week in tech links: ink-saving typefaces, Cloudera and robotic kangaroos
This week we learned about a science fair project that identified millions in potential savings by simply switching fonts. Swapping from Times New Roman to Garamond would save the U.S. federal government $400 million in the cost of ink. Make …
This week in tech links: Google Glass, graphene and geneticat
...paying out $100 a pop to users who upgrade from Windows XP. http://www.geekwire.com/2014/microsoft-offers-users-100-credit-new-pc-switch-xp/ Finally, watch this simulation of a cat - implemented with a genetic algorithm - learning to leap...