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Swift Chip voted Best of Ventura 2011!
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Swift Chip was awarded the 2011 Best of Ventura: IT Services/Computer Repair Services!
How Google+ could change the Internet
You’re not alone if you’re not sure what Google + is all about. See why some experts think it could change the web as we know it.
Keep using Dropbox with these safety tips
If you’re like us, and you still plan on using Dropbox despite the recent security hiccup, here are a few tools you can use to be as secure as possible.
Lab-Grown Meat: It’s What’s For Dinner [Food]
In this week’s New Yorker, Michael Specter takes a great look at the world of in-vitro meat—grown in a lab, outside an animal body. It's not a matter of if, but when. Will you eat it? More
A Modern-Day Invisibility Cloak (Er, Necklace) [Surveillance]
You're probably on camera right now. Wave hello. If you were wearing this line of Cold Flare jewelry from a pair of ITP students, you'd be invisible—or at least, anonymous(er). More
Liquid crystals can detect bacterial infections [Breakthroughs]
Liquid crystals – yes the same as the ones in your calculator — may soon save lives: they’ll be detecting deadly bacterial infections. It turns out liquid crystals are incredibly sensitive to endotoxin, a lipid that’s found on the outside of many bacteria, including E. coli and Salmonella. More




