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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

New Zealand Computer Museum

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This is exciting news. Plans are underway to establish a New Zealand Computer Museum in Auckland's Wynyard Quarter down by the waterfro...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Strandbeest - kinetic sculptures

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My colleague Bob Doran put me onto this; nothing to do with computing but it certainly is fasinating. Theo Jansen's Strandbeests are wi...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Earn college credits whilst working for Facebook

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Facebook has announced that it is partnering with US university computer science departments to provide open source projects for students...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

#Apple's wise maps decision

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A year ago Apple was taking a lot of criticism for its decision to kick Google Maps of the iOS platform. I in a post titled " Apple...
Saturday, November 9, 2013

Computer history on display at Auckland University

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The Institute of IT Professionals blog features the (re)-opening of the  NZ Computer Timeline last Thursday 7 November. In an extended ph...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Rock paper scissors robot wins every time!

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Watch the video below of the Japanese Ishikawa Oku Laboratory's Janken robot winning at rock-paper-scissors 100% of the time. Technicall...
Friday, November 1, 2013

Facebook to use Artificial Intelligence

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Another Facebook story this week; Australian Business Insider reports that Facebook is aplanning to use AI and voice recognition to provi...