by David Brooks | Sep 29, 2015 | Computers-Digital Devices, Science-Technology
You know how Netflix clobbered Blockbuster using new technology? A very new New Hampshire startup has visions of doing the same thing to Netflix using an even newer technology. The company, named Lbry, wants to deliver content online like movies via distributed...
by David Brooks | Sep 22, 2015 | Computers-Digital Devices, Science-Technology
It’s not entirely true, but perhaps not entirely false, to credit an indignant 8-year-old with public recognition of New Hampshire’s pivotal contribution to the video game industry. As his parents tell it, 8-year-old Alex Baer was taken to a talk in 2000 concerning...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2015 | Science-Technology
It says something about fishing in New Hampshire waters – but not something terribly good – that our two highest-profile species are fading away. In fresh water, it has been many years since the Atlantic salmon was anything but an artificial presence, maintained only...
by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2015 | Computers-Digital Devices, Science-Technology
In many ways, the best part of bitcoin isn’t bitcoin – it’s the stuff hidden underneath. Vermont, of all places, thinks it can take advantage of this. “This is a very interesting, potentially widespread tool. . . . If we can be six to 12 months ahead of the pack on...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2015 | Research, Science-Technology
Is Narcan really the EpiPen for heroin addicts? That’s the analogy you’ll find circulating online, amid all the news about the life-saving antidote to heroin overdose. But as I found out from the state’s chief medical officer, we need to be very careful when dealing...
by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2015 | Science-Technology, Scientific Exploration
Yes, there was a hole, and yes, you could sink into it. But from a geological perspective, the traffic-snarling chasm that opened up on Interstate 93 in Concord last week wasn’t really a sinkhole. Texas may have sinkholes and Florida may have sinkholes – sometimes the...
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