"developed over the last five years by a group of artificial-intelligence researchers at the company’s Microsoft Research laboratories. It is an ambitious attempt to apply machine-learning techniques to the problem of traffic congestion. The system is intended to reflect the complex traffic interactions that occur as traffic backs up on freeways and spills over onto city streets."
"The Clearflow system will be freely available (starting Thursday) as part of the company’s Live.com site (maps.live.com) for 72 cities in the United States."
New York Times
Web Worker Daily identifies 10 cool free applications for your thumb drive to carry around and possibly leave your own laptop at home.
Prices are down nicely fro the holidays...a 4GB (yes, not a typo) for $ 25.
Of course, they are also a significant security risk...so consider getting a pricier, but encrypted one.
"Imagine having a "living" data storage system that constantly renews
itself, keeping the data safe for aeons. A team in Japan has raised the
possibility by loading live bacteria with artificial DNA sequences that
encode data."
"A new type of disc that promises to cram in up to 300 times as much data as today's DVDs is poised to hit the market, and a similar, rival disc whose data is recorded and read differently is to be released within a few years."
"Online storage systems that can automatically synchronize the data on all of your computing devices, including the PCs you use at home and at work and your smart phone, are finally a reality."
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