Google’s scary powerful Spanner database gets us one step closer to Skynet

November 26, 2012 4:01 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Google’s Spanner is a single database that runs across hundreds of data centers throughout the world. It makes me want to climb into an underground bunker.

Mobile web devices will outnumber puny humans this year

February 14, 2012 9:44 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

The rise of the machines is upon us. A new report from Cisco predicts that mobile Internet devices will outnumber people on Earth for the first time by the end of 2012 — a sign of ever-growing love and dependence …