Tag Archives: drc

Conspicuous Correlation: Coltan and Crisis Reports

December 8, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Mashing up some data from Ushahidi and a number of reports on the mining of coltan (columbite and tantalite) it’s easy to see the correlation ...
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AMD’s Congo Processor and Conflict-Free Computing

September 11, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
AMD one of the world’s largest chipset manufacturers has unveiled a new microprocessor called Congo. The first netbook based on the technology was announced yesterday ...
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Amput8ion by SMS?

December 3, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
A British surgeon performed an amputation procedure he’d never attempted before with instructions he received via SMS A British surgeon amputated the arm of ...
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Journalist Bikes Through Congo

November 19, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Tim Butcher, author of the book Blood River, is dedicated to his craft. So dedicated that he took nothing but a motorbike through vast ...
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Gorilla.cd Blogging a Crisis in Realtime

October 31, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
If you haven’t been following gorilla.cd over the past few days, it’s an incredible account of what’s occurring in the DRC right now as told ...
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