A thousand tiny
bits of information per hour, relatively harmless in isolation and offered freely without protection, can merge to build a thoroughly detailed picture of an individual — a picture that would be of interest to hackers, corporations and, it seems, our own governments.
Humans take in an average of 11 million
bits of information per second from our busy environments but can only consciously process a maximum of 40
bits of information per second.
More recently a team of Stanford University researchers led by Hari Manoharan were able to encode 35
bits of information per electron and write letters so small they are composed of subatomic bits of matter only 0.3 nanometers wide, or roughly one third of a billionth of a meter.
A couple dozen lasers switching at this speed could handle a trillion
bits of information per second — more than 100 times as fast as current silicon chips.
Transmitting 64,000
bits of information per second, a page of text can be transmitted in just one second on an ISDN Fax line.
Not exact matches
Most customers, many
of them still exploring the wonders
of YouTube and for the most part content to simply use e-mail and social networks, are not demanding, nor are they willing to pay a premium for, service that moves
information at 1 billion
bits per second.
GetHuman provides free contact
information and other useful tools for millions
of customer
per month to make customer service a
bit easier and faster.
That's all well and good, but does slightly fly in the face
of the site's main advantage over Tinder and its ilk — that there's space for more than a tweet's worth
of information on the profiles.Still, the full profiles and questions are available, and it's free - to - use (with a few irritating ads), making it a worthwhile option for anyone hoping to know a
bit more about their dates before meeting up for the first time.Just like online dating before it, dating apps started out as a
bit of a dirty secret — how many Tinder profiles joke that they'll want to lie about how you met?But time and ubiquity have meant that apps like Tinder and Grindr are no longer seen as a source
of shame, and they're just another
of the many ways people can try and meet each other in the modern digital age.It limits you to 12 or so potential matches
per day (the exact amount depends on how many Facebook friends you have), giving it a
bit more focus than the sprawl
of Tinder or Happn.They also just introduced timed matches which give you 24 hours to send the first message otherwise it expires, encouraging users to make matches more quickly.
This WES it's gwabbit, a $ 9.95
per year app that scans emails for contact
information, absorbs the
information, sends it off to its server, processes each
bit of information into the appropriate fields, shoots it back to your BlackBerry and asks you if you want to add that contact.
The Health and Social Care
Information Centre (HSCIC) has announced figures that show under 10's accounting for the highest rate
of admissions
per age group for strikes and
bites from dogs over the past 12 months.
Thinking about 1000 articles is a
bit far away considering that I only publish once
per week... but over time they definitely build up and provide a rich catalogue
of information.
1999 Love
Bites, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK Zac 99, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France Bildung -
information, communication and didactics in contemporary fine arts, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria Getting the Corners, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Shopping, London, (organised by FAT), England GREEN, Exedra (Foundation for Contemporary Art), Hilversum, Netherlands Plug In, Salon 3, London, England Word enough to save a life, Word enough to take a life, Clare College Mission Church, London, England Common People, British Art between Phenomenon and Reality, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo
per L'arte, Torino, Italy Waste Management, Art Gallery
of Ontario, Canada Free Coke, Greene / Naftali Gallery, New York, USA Ainsi de suite 3 (deuxième partie), Sétè, France Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK Lè Grând Præmière Opénïng Shöw, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
from broadstuff Thought sparked by a post from Kathy Sierra To recap, Shannon's law states that in a communication channel
of limited capacity, useful
information is transmitted at: C = W log2 (1 + S / N), where C is the channel capacity in
bits per second, W is [Read More]
Of course, this still doesn't fill in many missing bits of information (such as the knowledge that even if parts of Canada or Siberia get warmer, they will not necessarily have arable soil, or growing seasons of the proper duration (i.e. number of months with a minimum amount of sunlight per day) to make them viable for crop
Of course, this still doesn't fill in many missing
bits of information (such as the knowledge that even if parts of Canada or Siberia get warmer, they will not necessarily have arable soil, or growing seasons of the proper duration (i.e. number of months with a minimum amount of sunlight per day) to make them viable for crop
of information (such as the knowledge that even if parts
of Canada or Siberia get warmer, they will not necessarily have arable soil, or growing seasons of the proper duration (i.e. number of months with a minimum amount of sunlight per day) to make them viable for crop
of Canada or Siberia get warmer, they will not necessarily have arable soil, or growing seasons
of the proper duration (i.e. number of months with a minimum amount of sunlight per day) to make them viable for crop
of the proper duration (i.e. number
of months with a minimum amount of sunlight per day) to make them viable for crop
of months with a minimum amount
of sunlight per day) to make them viable for crop
of sunlight
per day) to make them viable for crops.
Just a month after a science fiction writer speculated on storage devices the size
of a grain
of sand comes news from the magazine Science
of developments in magnetic anisotropy that could eventually be used to store
information in individual atoms, paving the way to pack as much as 150 trillion
bits of data
per square inch, 1,000 times more than current data storage densities.
Here's an educational
bit of information as
per today's local news here in Toronto: