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Book Review: Spintronics-Based Computing

If you’re a casual reader looking for a spellbinding page-turner, or a curious amateur technophile, this is not the book for you. It is filled with grammatical errors and clumsy diction, the tone is as dry as the Gobi Desert, and there is no graceful introduction beyond the excellent summary in the short Foreword by Albert Fert. After that the various authors plunge directly into advanced techn...

Book Review: The Internet of Healthy Things

(IoT). The acronym IoT was coined in 1999 by Ashton [1], referring to the “networked interconnection of everyday objects, which are often equipped with ubiquitous intelligence” [2]. Currently, the number of devices connected to each other exceeds the entire population of the world, and such change has converted the concept of the internet from an “internet between people” to an “internet betwee...

Book review: Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran

Iran and blogging. Most of us, when encountering the relationship between the two, would probably think about conservatism and the extent of repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Arrests of some prominent Iranian bloggers, such as Hussein Derakshan, popularised through the Western media would also spring to mind. But not many of us would know that Persian is one of the most used languages...

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Book Review: Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life