Month: December 2016

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Kablammo!! #Trump will have his finger on the #nuclear button – an annotated infographic

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All of this would be funny if it weren’t actually true… When Donald Trump becomes the next US President (yes, this is really happening, it’s not all a surrealist nightmare), he will immediately have access to, and sole launch authority for, all of America’s nuclear weapons. Trump will be accompanied at all times by a military aide carrying what is known as the nuclear ‘football’, the US loving nothing more than an inappropriately trivial sporting reference to refer to a catastrophically devastating act of destruction. This is, after all, the same country that based its judicial system for incarceration on a baseball analogy: three strikes and … Continue reading Kablammo!! #Trump will have his finger on the #nuclear button – an annotated infographic

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#Trump calls for new $4 billion Air Force One contract to be cancelled – an annotated infographic

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In the wacky world of Donald Trump’s America, the approach to policy appears to lurch wildly from the reasonably sensible to the fundamentally insane. That, it appears, is the contrary nature of both The Donald’s broad, straight-talking appeal and the very real threat he poses in creating a Disunited States of America. One of his latest wheezes/random brain dumps blurted out to share with the world concerns Air Force One – which will be Trump’s very own tricked-out personal plane, come January 2017 – and the prohibitively high cost of renewing said fleet. On the face of it, this seems like a rational decision. Why … Continue reading #Trump calls for new $4 billion Air Force One contract to be cancelled – an annotated infographic

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Nintendo’s @SuperMarioRuns set to hit #iPhone App Store this week – an annotated infographic

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Super Mario Run for Apple’s iPhone and iPad is forecast to be an historic mobile game launch – quite possibly bigger even than the Pokémon Go phenomenon. As we all now know, Nintendo didn’t actually develop Pokemon Go and don’t make much money from it. The big winner there is Niantic. Super Mario Run, on the other hand, Nintendo’s own game, is predicted to smash all manner of App Store records, with successive generations of gamers who grew up helping the diminutive Italian plumber pick up coins while avoiding malevolent mushrooms are primed and ready to snap up Mario’s inaugural … Continue reading Nintendo’s @SuperMarioRuns set to hit #iPhone App Store this week – an annotated infographic

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Nominet and Microsoft to bring broadband to rural Africa – an annotated infographic

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Nominet and Microsoft have announced a partnership to deliver broadband across the African continent, using Nominet’s TV white space database and dynamic spectrum-management technology, along with Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, to bring low-cost terrestrial wireless broadband internet to remote and rural communities. Advances in TV white space broadband technology have allowed disused TV channels to be repurposed as wireless internet connections. E&T was at the recent IoT launch event for this Nominet and Microsoft collaboration. You can read that story in full on the E&T web site.  There’s a video and everything. Click on the graphic for an expanded view. Continue reading Nominet and Microsoft to bring broadband to rural Africa – an annotated infographic