Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • Sprinter RV DIY Conversion

    (via Sprinter RV: DIY Sprinter RV Conversion Gallery) Related articles Airstream Reveals 2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter-Based Interstate (extravaganzi.com) DIY Housing, Is this a new trend for homeownership? (streetcornerprophet.com) Roadtrek Adds Solar Power, Biodiesel to Its RV Lineup (thegreenenergyblog.com)

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  • Get student discounts forever

    (via How to Get Student Discounts Forever)

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  • The new workplace and the increasing importance of skills testing and online portfolios

    (via How to Get a Job – NYTimes.com) Related articles Are You Only Pretending to Be in the Right Job? (crosstiesolutionsltd.wordpress.com) Are You Only Pretending to Be in the Right Job? (soshitech.com) Job Hunting after Graduation: Manage your Online Reputation (callnerds.com) Advice for Graduating MBA Students . . . . (criticalskillsblog.com)

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  • Spider tech tape: shorten and relax over stressed muscles

    (via SpiderTech™ X Spider™ Blue Tape – SPIDERTECH – GNC)

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  • Pivot head video eyewear

    (via Pivothead review: video recording eyewear for (reasonably) discreet POV clips) Related articles Pivothead Video-Recording Sunglasses (uncrate.com) Video-Recording Eyewear – Pivothead Sunglasses Captures the Experience in Stunning HD (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)

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  • Turn your Mac into a spectrometer

    (via Turn Your Laptop Into a Spectrometer – Popular Mechanics) Related articles Apple (Finally) Updates The Mac Pro (techcrunch.com)

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  • How a room fan can slash your cooling costs

    Best Room Fan | The Wirecutter. Related articles Smart Ways to Slash Your Summer Bills (powersaverstn.wordpress.com)

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  • Nurses will assess whether your health tech is usable

    Nurses will never adopt your tech if the usability sucks Meghan Kelly, venturebeat.com Nurs­es are the unsung heroes of the hos­pi­tal who nav­i­gate crap­py soft­ware on out­dat­ed hard­ware to keep you healthy — and it needs to stop. Exec­u­tives from Cedar’s-Sinai and Kaiser Per­ma­nente explained at Ven­ture­Beat’s Health­Beat… http://flip.it/HXB4e Related articles Nurses will never adopt…

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  • Blackmagic pocket video cinema cam

    Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera: RAW Video In the Palm of Your Hand for $1000 Michael Hession, gizmodo.com The film/videomaking world was set aflame last year when Blackmagic Design announced its Cinema Camera. It looks like the rogues are back for more with a RAW-shooting, $1000 video camera that fits in your pocket.Filmmaker John Brawley, Blackmagic’……

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  • Nanocellulose: a high performance bio textile

    7 Incredible Uses for Nanocellulose gizmodo.com The world’s hottest new super­ma­te­r­i­al isn’t as fancy as you might think; in fact, it’s pro­duced by feed­ing wood pulp to algae. The result, nanocel­lu­lose, is amaz­ing­ly light, super-strong, and con­ducts elec­tric­i­ty. That ver­sa­til­i­… 7 Incredible Uses for Nanocellulose http://flip.it/V5dW1 http://flip.it/5Qf2H Related articles Poisons You Didn’t Know You Were…

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  • Health reform will help self employed

    Will health reform help part-time workers get insurance? Consumer Reports News, consumerreports.org Q: I’m a part-time worker from home and my hours are variable, at times more than 40 hours a week but usually more like 25 hours a week. How does Obamacare apply in my situation? I’m a diabetic and support a family of…

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  • The life of a data scientist

    The Examined Life of Rachel Kalmar: Data Scientist D.C. Denison, makezine.com Rachel Kalmar will be easy to spot at the Hard­ware Inno­va­tion Work­shop next week. She will be the one wear­ing eleven health mon­i­tor­ing devices: three on each wrist, four on her belt, and one on her upper arm. That ele­gant alu­min… The Examined Life…

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  • Your digital footprint

    5 Places to Look for Your Digital Footprint TechNewsDaily, mashable.com Recently, many iPhone and iPad users were incensed to learn that Siri — the personal digital assistant for iOS devices — has an eerily long memory. Unbeknownst to Apple customers, Siri sends all your queries directly to Apple’s company’s servers,… http://flip.it/hKkfD Related articles 5 Places…

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  • Tips for freelance success

    5 Sure-Fire Routes to Freelancing Success Lynn Dixon, mashable.com In today’s shaky economy, freelancing is on the rise. In the U.S. alone, one in three workers are now doing freelance work. That’s 42 million Americans going without employer health insurance, 401(k) plans and flexible spending accounts.But it’s n… http://flip.it/xrdcp Related articles 5 Sure-Fire Routes to…

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  • Americans don’t like the taste of water

    Americans’ main complaint about water is that it tastes too much like water Sarah Miller, grist.org Robynne BlumeDo you feel like your doctors and your more annoying friends are always telling you to drink more water? Well, they’re just trying to help. Water is so important for your health! Sadly, water tastes like, well, water.…

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  • Panasonic g6: good video, reasonable price

    Panasonic introduces DMC-G6 and DMC-LF1 cameras Simon Crisp, gizmag.com Panasonic has added two new cameras to its 2013 line-up, the Lumix DMC-G6 and the Lumix DMC-LF1. The G6 is a DSLR-like mid-range mirrorless shooter with a 16 megapixel sensor, while the LF1 is a high-end compact with a built-in electronic viewfind… http://flip.it/wphiG Related articles Panasonic…

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  • Natural language shopping

    Natural language comparison service Versus IO scores $2.8M in funding David Meyer, gigaom.com In the devel­op­ment of nat­ur­al lan­guage pro­cess­ing, the seman­tic web and so on, e-com­merce pro­vides a rich breed­ing ground. Com­pa­nies such as Ama­zon and Google always want to find bet­ter ways to learn what it is poten­tial cus­tomers… Natural language comparison service…

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  • The rise of sensor journalism

    Is sensor journalism feasible, or even ethical? Columbia’s Tow Center hopes to find out By Laura Hazard Owen, paidcontent.org Journalists and organizations now have the ability to use sensors to collect their own real-time data and report on it. The practice raises both practical and ethical questions, Columbia’s Emily Bell said Thursday. If data jour­nal­ism…

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  • Tumblr and NYC ecosystem

    What Tumblr’s sale means for New York startup ecosystem Om Malik, gigaom.com A few weeks after Ken Lerer quit AOL-owned Huff­in­g­ton Post to work on his ven­ture fund Lerer Ven­tures, I stopped by in his office to catch up and talk about the New York land­scape. And dur­ing our con­ver­sa­tion, he point­ed out that New…

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  • Flickr now comes with 1 TB of data free

    Flickr gets revamp — with 1 TB of photo storage free — and Yahoo gets new NYC office Laura Hazard Owen, gigaom.com Yahoo’s already had a busy Mon­day, what with that lit­tle $1.1 bil­lion Tum­blr acqui­si­tion, but the com­pa­ny had a few more announce­ments to make at a press con­fer­ence Mon­day after­noon in New York. It’s…

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  • Big data and propaganda

    The future of propaganda: A Q&A with Sean Gourley about big data and the “war of ideas” Ernie Sander, gigaom.com In 2009, Sean Gour­ley, an Oxford-trained physi­cist, gave a TED talk called “The Math­e­mat­ics of War.” Gour­ley had been work­ing with the Pen­ta­gon, the Unit­ed Nations and the Iraqi Gov­ern­ment to help them bet­ter under­stand…

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