FoxConn Style Outsourcing

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When companies like Apple outsource production, they send it off to FoxConn that employs people who do great work for cheap. But what does FoxConn do when it decides to outsource? Looks like there is a plan.

Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

Foxconn, which employs nearly one million low-wage workers to hand-assemble electronic gadgets for Apple, Nintendo, Intel, Dell, Nokia, Microsoft, Samsung, and Sony..... the Taiwan-based manufacturing giant would add up to one million industrial robots to its assembly lines inside of three years

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Big Data For The Masses

Big Data (Photo credit: Kevin Krejci)

Big Data is not new. Walmart has been crunching Big Data for decades now. What's futuristic about the term  though is that Big Data is about to descend to the masses.

Technology Review: Your Laptop Can Now Analyze Big Data

As technology gets more networked, and data sets get larger, graph computation is becoming more and more relevant in many domains ... "Enabling web developers to construct these analyses on their desktop computers catalyzes these industries and accelerates product development." .... "Big data is everywhere now, but some big data isn't as big as it once was, relatively speaking. Tools like GraphChi will let many companies and startups solve all their graph-computing needs on a single machine. It's cost effective, and it drives innovation, too."

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