Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • Mercedes Rolls Out the Future of the SUV

    By Damon Lavrinc, wired.com LOS ANGE­LES, Cal­i­for­nia – Geländewagen. It’s not an Aus­tri­an insult or some obscure epi­thet from the East­ern Bloc; it’s Mercedes-Benz’ icon­ic SUV. Orig­i­nal­ly craft­ed with a ruler and a chis­el for mil­i­tary use, it even­tu­al­ly went… http://flpbd.it/cujf3 Mercedes Rolls Out the Future of the SUV Related articles Smart Crossover SUV to…

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  • Qualcomm tricorder X Prize

    The Tricorder X Prize: The Biggest Thing In Home Health Care Since The Thermometer? Cormac Foster, readwrite.com The Qual­comm Tri­corder X Prize promis­es to turn every­body into a Doc­tor McCoy by 2016. It could change every­thing about the way we prac­tice med­i­cine. But are we ready for it? If you’re a red­shirt think­ing you might…

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  • Secrets, Schemes, and Lots of Guns: Inside John McAfee’s Heart of Darkness Jeff Wise, gizmodo.com As dawn broke over the inte­ri­or of Belize on April 30, an elite team of 42 police and sol­diers, includ­ing mem­bers of the coun­try’s SWAT team and Spe­cial Forces, con­verged on a com­pound on the banks of a jun­gle river.…

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  • John McAfee Wanted for Murder Jeff Wise, gizmodo.com Antivirus pio­neer John McAfee is on the run from mur­der charges, Belize police say. Accord­ing to Marco Vidal, head of the nation­al police force’s Gang Sup­pres­sion Unit, McAfee is a prime sus­pect in the mur­der of Amer­i­can expa­tri­ate… John McAfee Wanted for Murder http://flpbd.it/7vzNY http://flpbd.it/Lrxaa

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  • All the Black Friday Deals: 2012 Gizmodo, gizmodo.com It’s the biggest shop­ping day of the year. There are tons of deals—and not-really-deals—out there. So we combed through every one we could find, and ranked them all. Here’s your Ulti­mate Black Fri­day guide: happy hunt­ing. Deals are grouped b…

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  • All the Cyber Monday Deals: 2012 http://flpbd.it/vEevv

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  • All the Cyber Monday Deals: 2012 Gizmodo, gizmodo.com Well Black Fri­day is over. Maybe you scored some deals, maybe you stayed in this year. Either way, Cyber Mon­day is here to drag you back for anoth­er round of insane­ly dis­count­ed shop­ping. We found, ranked, and sort­ed all the Cyber Mon­day… All the Cyber Monday Deals:…

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  • All the Cyber Monday Deals: 2012 http://flpbd.it/4HOCB http://flpbd.it/puP2H

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  • Is the iPad mini brilliant? The OpenForum discusses Cesar Torres, arstechnica.com This week Senior Apple Edi­tor Jacqui Cheng reviewed the iPad mini, and she found many fea­tures to love about it, but some fea­tures, like the dis­play, left a bit to be desired. Ars read­ers also got their hands on Apple’s new small-form tablet,… RT…

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  • Which consultants built Romney’s “Project Orca?” None of them Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com In the wake of Mitt Rom­ney’s Elec­tion Day defeat, frus­tra­tion with the Rom­ney cam­paign’s get-out-the-vote effort led to reports of an IT melt­down. Project Orca, the sys­tem the Rom­ney cam­paign used to con­nect to an army of vol­un­teer… http://flpbd.it/2fl2x

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  • How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite run­ning a cam­paign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Gov­er­nor Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial bid, Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s cam­paign under-spent Rom­ney’s on IT prod­ucts and ser­vices by $14.5 mil­lion, putting the…

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  • How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite run­ning a cam­paign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Gov­er­nor Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial bid, Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s cam­paign under-spent Rom­ney’s on IT prod­ucts and ser­vices by $14.5 mil­lion, putting the… http://flpbd.it/PH2OC

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  • How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite run­ning a cam­paign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Gov­er­nor Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial bid, Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s cam­paign under-spent Rom­ney’s on IT prod­ucts and ser­vices by $14.5 mil­lion, putting the… http://flpbd.it/6mV1z

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  • How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite run­ning a cam­paign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Gov­er­nor Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial bid, Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s cam­paign under-spent Rom­ney’s on IT prod­ucts and ser­vices by $14.5 mil­lion, putting the… http://flpbd.it/6mV1z

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  • Pong Cases Protect Devices And Your Brain Simultaneously

    Beth Buczynski, earthtechling.com These days, every­one has a smart phone or tablet. In an attempt to keep these gad­gets orga­nized (and work­ing) we’ve adopt­ed an entire indus­try of pro­tec­tive acces­sories that express our unique sense of style and expres­sion. While they ma… http://flpbd.it/ppQjA Pong Cases Protect Devices And Your Brain Simultaneously Related articles MaKey MaKey…

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  • Obama victory and tech industry

    What Obama’s Victory Means for Tech Brian Barrett, gizmodo.com Barack Obama’s vic­to­ry last night has far-reaching fis­cal, social, and mil­i­tary impli­ca­tions, all of which are famil­iar to any­one who kept at least one eye open dur­ing any of this year’s debates. But what do four more years mean for tech… What Obama’s Victory Means for…

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  • John McAFee goes native in Belize

    The Crazy Secret Journal of John McAfee, Volume 1: The Girl Assassin Joel Johnson, gizmodo.com John McAfee, founder of the epony­mous antivirus com­pa­ny, is being sought by police in Belize for ques­tion­ing about the mur­der of Amer­i­can expa­tri­ate Gre­go­ry Faull. (First report­ed by Giz­mo­do yes­ter­day.) In Sep­tem­ber … The Crazy Secret Journal of John McAfee,…

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  • Black Friday 2012: the best deals from Target, Best Buy, Apple, Sony, and more By Laura June, theverge.com The day after Thanks­giv­ing is on its way, and you know what that means: Black Fri­day. Black Fri­day is an over­whelm­ing shop­ping day for many peo­ple, and there are many, many sales to keep orga­nized. That’s where…

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  • Misfit wearable is superior to Fitbit

    Watch Out Fitbit, This Badass New Activity Tracker Is Out to Eat Your Lunch Peter Ha, gizmodo.com You might not have ever heard of Mis­fit Wear­ables but you’ll want to pay atten­tion start­ing now that its first gad­get has made its debut. Found­ed by Aga­ma­trix founders Sonny Vu and Srid­har Iyen­gar, the Red­wood City-based com­pa­ny…

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  • Real political map of US

    This Is the Real Political Map of America—We Are Not That Divided Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com This is the real polit­i­cal map of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca after the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. A fas­ci­nat­ing view, much dif­fer­ent from the maps you saw that night, which showed an arti­fi­cial, bina­ry divide. But these maps… This Is the…

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  • Best LTE providers for iPad

    4G iPad Mini: Which Carrier Has the Best Deal? Brad Chacos – Laptop Mag, gizmodo.com The iPad mini’s pint-sized frame was made with porta­bil­i­ty in mind, and the arrival of a 4G LTE-equipped model at three of the nation’s top cel­lu­lar providers this morn­ing makes it eas­i­er than ever to keep your tablet con­nect­ed while…

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  • iPad mini review

    Review: The skinny on the iPad mini—it’s not the size that counts Jacqui Cheng, arstechnica.com For­mer Apple CEO Steve Jobs famous­ly trashed 7” tablets as being “dead in the water” in 2010. Two years later, under the reign of new CEO Tim Cook, Apple has released its own minia­ture tablet—one that has a diag­o­nal screen…

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  • Built to win: Deep inside Obama

    Built to win: Deep inside Obama’s campaign tech Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com The reelec­tion of Barack Obama was won by peo­ple, not by soft­ware. But in a con­test as close as last week’s elec­tion, soft­ware may have given the Obama for Amer­i­ca orga­ni­za­tion’s peo­ple a tiny edge—mak­ing them by some mea­sures more… RT @NathanMattise: This is…

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  • Romney’s orca system caused campaign meltdown

    Which consultants built Romney’s “Project Orca?” None of them Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com In the wake of Mitt Rom­ney’s Elec­tion Day defeat, frus­tra­tion with the Rom­ney cam­paign’s get-out-the-vote effort led to reports of an IT melt­down. Project Orca, the sys­tem the Rom­ney cam­paign used to con­nect to an army of vol­un­teer… RT @arstechnica: Which consultants built…

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  • Obama tech crippled Romney campaign

    How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite run­ning a cam­paign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Gov­er­nor Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial bid, Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s cam­paign under-spent Rom­ney’s on IT prod­ucts and ser­vices by $14.5 mil­lion, putting the… Related articles Obama’s Budget Would Cap Romney-Sized…

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  • Harvard bio library stores 70 billion books on DNA

    Harvard Stores 70 Billion Books in Record Breaking DNA Bio-Library the Size of a Thumbnail | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building GreatEmerald says:, inhabitat.com DNA photo from Shut­ter­stock A team from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty’s Wyss Insti­tute for Bio­log­i­cal­ly Inspired Engi­neer­ing has dis­cov­ered a way to store 70 bil­lion books in a space…

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