by Don Basile | Mar 4, 2022 | Technology
In 2018, Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst David Cappuccio wrote a piece entitled “The Data Center is Dead,” in which he predicted that because of the continuing rise of such things as cloud providers, Software as a Service (SaaS) and edge services, some 80 percent of...
by Don Basile | Nov 5, 2021 | Graphene
Two new graphene-related developments this year — one by Brown University researchers in January and another by MIT researchers in August — showed that this one-atom-thick layer of carbon might offer promise as a means of water filtration. And if it...
by Don Basile | Oct 29, 2021 | Technology
Not that any further proof was needed, but the night of March 27, 2021 offered definitive evidence of the impact non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are making — that besides transforming the world of digital art, they are even veering toward the mainstream. On that...
by Don Basile | May 28, 2021 | Digital, Technology
British data scientist Clive Humby was famously quoted in 2006 as saying that “data is the new oil,” a statement that has been over-analyzed and occasionally criticized, but one that nonetheless retains its merits all these years later. Soon after Humby made that...
by Don Basile | May 18, 2021 | Technology
The 2017 song “Despacito,” by Puerto Rican artists Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee (and later re-mixed with no less a talent than Justin Bieber), remains one of the most popular songs of all time. Its music video surpassed three billion YouTube views in record time, and...
