Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
The Weight of Data
[As ever, this is on the BBC News website too]
I have just deleted fifteen gigabytes of data from my laptop. Gone are the unwanted video clips, the duplicated photos, the filed columns and the unlistened-to music, all consigned to the great Trashcan in the sky.
Yet it weighs the same as it always did, just over [...]
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Give me rice, but give me a laptop too
[Also available from the BBC News website - 10 years of shiny goodness!]
Update: there’s a discussion going on over on Dvorak’s blog.
One of the best things about being on the World Service radio programme Digital Planet each week is that I get to hear about interesting technologies from many different countries and explore the impact [...]
