April 2012
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The Disruptive Business Model that Could Change... →
One of the most interesting things about the tablet market these days—besides the fact that Apple basically owns it—is that in the very near future, I believe there will be two very different business models that will drive tablets into the broader consumer market.
The first model, the one Apple uses today, is very traditional. In this case, Apple makes the iPad and then sells it through its...
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Forget Graphene, Silicene Is Here to Blow Your... →
Remember how graphene, the single-atom thick layer of carbon was so slick it was going to change everything? Well it looks like silicene is here to steal the spotlight. Researchers have just made the first sheet of single-atom thick silicon.
Silicene has been a work in progress for years, but they think they’ve finally got it down now, and it represents a tremendous breakthrough. Graphene...
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“In a given day we translate roughly as much text as you’d find in 1 million...”
– Breaking down the language barrier—six years in - Google Translate Blog (via infoneer-pulse)
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App Tracks Your Teenager's Driving Habits →
By merging data from cars’ onboard computers and drivers’ smart phones, AT&T researchers have created a system that reports on drivers’ real-time behavior and long-term driving trends—and reveals whether a particular mistake might have been caused by phone use.
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Customers Are People, Too | Fast Company
Patti Hart, CEO of International Game Technology, says it’s important to see the customer is an individual first. Understanding them as people often speeds progress on providing products that delight them.
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Surging Seas: Sea level rise analysis by Climate... →
Map pages show threats from sea level rise and storm surge to all 3000 coastal towns, cities, counties and states in the Lower 48.
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Adjusting to Life in a... →
Adjusting to Life in a Hyperconnected World
In the spring of 1997, during a presentation in Paris on IBM’s new e-business strategy, the CIO of a major European retail chain mentioned that his company had just spent a lot of money remodeling their stores. He was wondering if they had done the right thing, given all this new economy talk. We were in the middle of the dot-com frenzy, and the...
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Think GPS is cool? IPS will blow your mind |... →
For all of their awesome applications — from portable navigation devices, to self-driving cars, to cruise missile targeting — the American Global Positioning System and its Russian cohort GLONASS have two fundamental flaws: They don’t work indoors, and they only really operate in two dimensions.
Now, these limitations are fair enough; we’re talking about an extremely weak signal that has...
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Wireless sensor broadcasts environmental data via... →
Tsubuyaku Sensor is a new wireless device from Japanese Ubiquitous Computing Technology that monitors conditions such as temperature, humidity and radiation levels and automatically tweets the resulting data via Twitter.
If Twitter can be used to broadcast recipes, school lunch menus and fresh bread alerts — to name just a few of the many examples we’ve covered — then why not environmental data...
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How Watson Works - semanticweb.com →
Ivan Herman recently offered some insight into how Watson actually works. Herman reports, “I was at Chris Welty’s keynote yesterday at the WWW2012 Conference. His talk was on Jeopardy/Watson and, although this is not the first time I heard/saw something on Watson, some things really became clear only at his keynote. Namely: what is really the central paradigm that made the question answering...
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Striiv pedometer goes wireless, gets social —... →
Striiv, a smart pedometer that uses game mechanics to motivate people, is getting updated Wednesday with a new personal wireless connection that lets users encourage and compete with each other. With the new Striiv Connected social component, Striiv is moving beyond a more solo experience and utilizing relationships to help further drive users.
With the updated Striiv, users will be able to...
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WWW inventor: HTML5 will make Minority Report look...
Open data heralds the internet’s next exciting phase
Considered one of the pioneering fathers of the internet, Berners-Lee believes we are only at the dawn of an even more exciting era - the era of open data and the semantic web, where almost every feasible physical device or piece of data will be interlinked online.
“The semantic web vision has taken a long time to come to fruition...
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How the iPad Is Changing Education | ReadWriteWeb
The iPad may only be two years old, but it’s already begun to change many things. Reading is one of them. Work is another. It is selling like crazy, but it will be some time before most of the people you know own a tablet.
The market for this type of device may only be in its infancy, but it’s already becoming clear how it will revolutionize certain aspects our lives. Education is a...
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“It’s (Quantum Computing) one of our most significant fundamental research...”
– Quote by Bill Gallagher, Senior Manager of Quantum Computing, IBM Research. Quote found in an online Computerworld article titled “IBM’s new future: Quantum computing”
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Essess: Google Street View for building energy...
A Cambridge, Mass.-based startup, Essess, has found a novel way to spot energy leaks for residential and commercial buildings: drive-by energy audits. Equipped with multi-spectral thermal cameras mounted on top of vehicles, the company captures high-speed images to build a database of energy consumption for buildings, neighborhoods and cities.
The company analyzes the thermal image data to...
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“We’re entering a world that is going to be so data-mined it will be...”
– ‘Me.EDU’: Debating the Coming Personalization of Higher Ed - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Plans afoot to tap Iceland's geothermal energy... →
A proposed high voltage electrical cable running across the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean to tap Iceland’s surplus volcanic geothermal energy would become the world’s longest underwater electrical cable, if it goes ahead. The cable would be a significant step towards a pan-European super grid, which may one day tap renewable sources as far afield as Scandinavia, North Africa and the Middle...
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Live Webcast from the Mayo Clinic: Integrating... →
Live Webcast from the Mayo Clinic: Integrating Mindfulness in Healthcare - April 24, 2012 - 10:00am CDT
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“The resume of the future should enable candidates to tell their story without...”
– The Cloud Will Kill The Resume, And That’s a Good Thing | TechCrunch
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WatchGROWING CITIES is a feature-length documentary that examines the role of urban farming in America and asks how much power it has to revitalize our cities and change the way we eat.The film follows two friends on their journey across the country as they meet the men and women who are challenging the way this country grows and distributes its food, one vacant city lot, rooftop garden, and backyard...
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