Oct 4, 2011

Q.369

The ecommerce giant Amazon.com recently made a few product announcements, including their new tablet called "Kindle Fire". This device will use a new browser developed by Amazon, and is being dubbed a "split browser": computation will happen both on the tablet and in Amazon's cloud platform.

According to Amazon, the browser's name stands for the idea that a thread of a particular material "is an invisible yet incredibly strong connection between two different things". What's the name?

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