Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • WordPress.com Enterprise Offers Managed Hosting for Businesses Christina Warren, mashable.com Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced its WordPress.com Enterprise service Thursday as an option for customers who have outgrown the capabilities of WordPress.com’s services but don’t need the extra features and expense of WordPr… http://flip.it/qQwuZ

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  • Get a no-contract mobile hot spot that ‘pays’ you for sharing Wi-Fi by Rick Broida, cnet.com The Karma hot spot earns you extra data when you share your 4G con­nec­tion with strangers. Cool or just plain crazy? You’ve heard of Free­dom­Pop, right? It’s the Clearwire-powered 4G ser­vice that gives you a “free” mobile hot spot…

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  • Farmingo digitizes organic farmers markets

    Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmers Market Bonnie Cha, allthingsd.com The ben­e­fits of your local farm­ers mar­kets are plen­ty. You’re get­ting fresh food, sup­port­ing local farms and help­ing to cre­ate a more sus­tain­able food sys­tem. But with lim­it­ed hours and loca­tions, you prob­a­bly can’t take advan­ta… RT @allthingsd: Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmer’s Market…

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  • Ditch the pricey telecom Internet with Freedompop

    Still Seeking to Shake Up Mobile Market, FreedomPop Also Looks to Rattle Home Broadband Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Free­dom­Pop, a start-up aim­ing to offer free and low-cost mobile broad­band access, is now tak­ing aim at the home Inter­net mar­ket as well. The com­pa­ny, backed by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, plans on Wednes­day to start tak­ing pre­ord……

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  • Why the iPod touch is the perfect VOIP soft phone: Freedompop

    FreedomPop Aims to Turn an iPod Touch Into an iPhone, With a 4G Add-On Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Wire­less start-up Free­dom­Pop is announc­ing plans on Tues­day to start sell­ing an add-on that effec­tive­ly gives an iPod touch many of the capa­bil­i­ties of an iPhone. The $99 add-on brings wire­less data capa­bil­i­ties to a third-generat… http://flip.it/lw7Sl Related…

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  • Personal genomic price drop: 23andMe

    What Is 23andMe Really Selling: The Moral Quandary At The Center Of The Personalized Genomics Revolution Steven Kotler, forbes.com This week, 23andme, the per­son­al­ized genomics com­pa­ny found­ed by Anne Woj­ci­c­ki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, got an influx of invest­ment cash ($50 mil­lion). Accord­ing to their press release, they are using the money to…

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  • Why Apple maps debacle was actually a success

    Is Google’s New Maps App Actually a Big Triumph for Apple? Frederick E. Allen, forbes.com Last Sep­tem­ber when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amaz­ing­ly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so round­ly denounced as a step back­ward and a weak­en­ing of the iPhone envi­ron­ment that chief exec­u­t……

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  • Marketing clouds: here comes machine learning

    Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com The advent of Sales­force Mar­ket­ing Cloud and Adobe Mar­ket­ing Cloud demon­strates the need for enter­pris­es to devel­op new ways of har­ness­ing the vast poten­tial of big data. Yet these mar­ket­ing clouds beg the ques­tion of who will help… RT @allthingsd:…

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  • Shootings stimulate mass online petitions for gun control

    25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com Update: The peti­tion has reached 25,000 sig­na­tures Almost imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the trag­ic school shoot­ing in Con­necti­cut, over 16,000 peo­ple have signed an offi­cial White House WeTheP­eo­ple peti­tion to “Imme­di­ate­ly… RT @TechCrunch: Scores Flood White House With Online…

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  • Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

    Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come Decem­ber 18th, futur­ist extra­or­di­naire Ray Kurzweil will be join­ing Google’s ranks as Direc­tor of Engi­neer­ing to work on projects that involve machine learn­ing and lan­guage pro­cess­ing. Specifics regard­ing those projects, how­ev­… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable…

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  • Romney Ad Named ‘Lie of the Year’thedailybeast.com PANTS ON FIRE Well, at least he won some­thing. Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign was award­ed “Lie of the Year” on Wednes­day by fact-checking web­site Poli­ti­Fact. The Pinoc­chio moment: the claim that Barack Obama “sold Chrysler to th… http://flip.it/ODboh

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  • Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet

      Michael V. Copeland, wired.com Analyst turned VC Mary Meeker sees a lot to be excited about in tech (mobile), and much to be worried about too. http://flip.it/sMiw8 Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet Related articles Disrupt or Die. Are You Working With The Social Agency Of The…

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  • Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery

    Phil Plait, slate.com [Note from the author: This is not my first vaccine rodeo, and I expect some interesting remarks in the comments section. As always, I have copiously linked key phrases in this article to more information backing up my claims. Please read them… Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery Related articles The “no compassion”…

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  • I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work

      lifehacker.com Tessa Miller View Profile • Google Plus • RSS When we kicked off the How I Work series in August, we encour­aged read­ers to tell us whose pro­duc­tiv­i­ty tips and tricks they were dying to know. No one has been more… http://flip.it/zcWep I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work Related articles Tim Ferriss…

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  • Review: The Hobbit Is Insanely Gorgeous at 48 Frames Per Second Hugh Hart, wired.com Watching The Hobbit at 48 frames per second makes one thing crystal clear: the movie looks like nothing you’ve seen before. http://flip.it/EPLua

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  • Marijuana Vending Machine Maker’s Stock Skyrockets

        Mike Epstein, mashable.com Based on this month’s elec­tion, the idea legal­iz­ing mar­i­jua­na seems more pop­u­lar than ever. Two states, Wash­ing­ton and Col­orado, have legal­ized pot at the state level. With the legal mar­i­jua­na mar­ket look­ing stronger than ever, th… http://flip.it/cTo9v Marijuana Vending Machine Maker’s Stock Skyrockets Related articles Ready For Marijuana Vending Machines?…

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  • Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Coming True

      yahoo.com Almost one year ago today, we laid out the night­mare sce­nario for Microsoft (MSFT) that could lead to its busi­ness col­laps­ing. After lay­ing it all out, we con­clud­ed, “For­tu­nate­ly for Microsoft, none of this is going to happen.” We wer… http://flip.it/GwzT7 Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Coming True Related articles How Steve Ballmer Became…

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  • The new golden age of biotech in Massachusetts – Business

    By Steven Syre, bostonglobe.com We’re liv­ing in a new a gold­en age of biotech­nol­o­gy in Mass­a­chu­setts. By this I don’t mean the sheer num­ber of start-ups and other young local com­pa­nies hop­ing to make their marks. Nor am I high­light­ing the impres­sive list of glob… http://flip.it/mReYH The new golden age of biotech in Massachusetts –…

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  • Philips Survey Reveals One in 10 Americans Believe Online Health Information Saved Their Life

      philips.com ANDOVER, Mass., U.S.A. – A recent U.S. sur­vey com­mis­sioned by Royal Philips Elec­tron­ics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a lead­ing health and well-being com­pa­ny, found that con­sumers believe web-enabled, mHealth and mobile apps are part of their… http://flip.it/N9jfs Philips Survey Reveals One in 10 Americans Believe Online Health Information Saved Their Life Related articles…

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  • The Consumerization of Healthcare

    by Lauren Soelberg Treasure, orcahealth.com The sys­temic change in US health­care deliv­ery has been called many things, but they all refer to one thing: the future of health­care will be in the hands of the con­sumers. Today, con­sumers are bet­ter able to make choic­es about their… http://flip.it/e36yc The Consumerization of Healthcare Related articles Dr. Kizer…

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  • Survey: Patients Welcome Active Role in Care

    Written by Heather Punke |, beckershospitalreview.com Decem­ber 12, 2012 Amer­i­can health­care con­sumers are buy­ing into the notion that they must take an active role in their health­care, accord­ing to a recent sur­vey by Wolters Kluw­er Health, part of Wolters Kluw­er, a glob­al infor­ma­tion… http://flip.it/EWQoI Survey: Patients Welcome Active Role in Care Related articles Rate your…

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  • Climate change caught in action in iceberg destruction

    Behold: The Largest Iceberg Breakup Ever Caught on Film Eric Liu, theatlantic.com The effects of climate change, in one gorgeous, terrifying video So, wow. Wow­wow­wow. A group of film­mak­ers, mak­ing a movie called, aptly, Chas­ing Ice, have cap­tured what they claim to be the largest ice­berg calv­ing ever filmed.… RT @megangarber: This is *literally* awesome:…

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  • NASA shows that earth looks like one big disco ball at night

    Satellite images of Earth, city lights at night Posted By: Bryan Chan, latimes.com Photography NASA has released images of Earth at night from the Suomi Nation­al Polar-Orbiting Part­ner­ship satel­lite that is orbit­ing 512 miles above the Earth’s sur­face. The agency stitched some of these images togeth­er to cre­ate a… http://flip.it/qaOMz Related articles This gorgeous video…

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  • Why cable tv is no longer necessary

    Cut the cord and say goodbye to cable Deborah Méndez-Wilson, special to USA TODAY, usatoday.com On-demand and online services offer more choices than cable—sometimes for free. Like every­one else, Audra Shar­i­fi Isfa­hani and her hus­band James McCol­lough want­ed to trim their costs in this down econ­o­my. They fig­ured if they cut their… http://flip.it/lTsTR Related articles…

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