Friday, December 22. 2017
Columbia & Toronto
On the one hand Kevin Hartnett (living in Columbia, SC) told the story about Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data. On the other hand Joshua Oliver (living in Toronto, Canada) explained in his article the Toss of the Bitcoin.
Tuesday, November 21. 2017
Sydney & Bratislava
On the one hand Rachel Botsman (living in Sydney, Australia) wrote about Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens. On the other hand Slavoj Žižek (living in Bratislava, Slovakia) formulated Ideology Is Original Argumented Reality - How we fill gaps in our everyday experiences.
Tuesday, November 7. 2017
Springfield & New York City
My first look went to David C. Brock(living in Springfield, MA) and his historical essay about The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint. Then my eyes focused on Chavie Lieber (living in New York City, NY) and her story about eBay Is Playing Catchup, But Will It Work?
Tuesday, October 17. 2017
Los Angeles & Towson
Firstly Michelle Dean (living in Los Angeles, CA) reported about Snopes.com and the Search for Facts in a Post-Fact World. Secondly my eyes went to the essay external memory - nostalgia for an internet that never was, which was written by Maeleine Manson-Rosen (living in Towson, MD).
Friday, October 6. 2017
2 x Stockholm
On the one hand the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (based in Stockholm, Sweden) awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. On the other hand the academy awarded the Nobel Prize iin Physics 2017: Gravitational waves finally captured.
Tuesday, September 19. 2017
St. Petersburg & Washington D.C.
Industry 4.0, currently on everyone's minds, was defined in Wikipedia, whose owner is the Wikimedia Foundation (founded in St. Petersburg, Florida). On step further the buzzword artificial intelligence (Industry 5.0) was explained by Quartz, whose owner is Atlantic Media (founded in Boston, MA).
Tuesday, September 12. 2017
Vesanto & Hildesheim
2 book recommendations: On the one hand Leena Letholainen (born in Vesanto, Finland) wrote the thriller My First Murder. On the other Gunter Dueck (born in Hildesheim, Germany) published the non-fiction Aufbrechen! Warum wir eine Exzellenzgesellschaft werden müssen.
Tuesday, August 29. 2017
2 x Melbourne
The Company 2thinkhow (based in Melbounre, Australia) published the annual report about the most high-tech cities in the world. In 2017 the top 3 were: San Francisco, New York City and London. In comparison to the report 2016: San Francisco, London and New York City.
Tuesday, August 15. 2017
2 x New York City
Friday, June 23. 2017
Hannover & Karlsruhe & Lausanne
For the terrific technological progress there are some clichés. A story of the Technology Review (based in Hannover, Germany) examined the myth of the terrific progress. Aporpos progress: Scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) and at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland) succeeded at research about Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications.
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