Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • iPhone as a photographic memory

    Turn Your Smartphone Camera into a Pocketable Photographic Memory Adam Dachis, lifehacker.com Sev­er­al apps exist to help you remem­ber the many things you’d oth­er­wise for­get, but per­haps none are quite as use­ful and effi­cient as your cam­era. Typ­ing takes time. Snap­ping a photo only takes a moment, and there are so many ways you ……

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  • Why energy management is the key to growth

    Why Better Energy Management is the Key to Peak Productivity Gregory Ciotti, lifehacker.com We live in a cul­ture that seems obsessed with being pro­duc­tive. While increas­ing our out­put and doing more with our time is cer­tain­ly an admirable goal, accord­ing to Tony Schwartz, author of Be Excel­lent at Any­thing, that mis­guid… http://flpbd.it/D6hu5 Related articles The…

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  • The world’s first solar powered nation

    Pacific Tokelau Island Chain Becomes World’s First Solar-Powered Nation | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Jill Fehrenbacher 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy from Zem Joaquin TweetShare on TumblrEmail You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling at home in order to save…

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  • The best water filter for field use

    Berkey Water Filters Provide Clean, Fresh Drinking Water At Home and In Disaster Relief | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Mark Boyer says:, inhabitat.com With bot­tled water and potable tap water both so read­i­ly avail­able in devel­oped coun­tries, it’s easy to take clean drink­ing water for grant­ed. But when nat­ur­al dis­as­ters…

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  • Nokero Sunray solar charger saved my life

    How The Nokero SunRay Pro Power Solar Charger Saved My Skin & My Sanity During Hurricane Sandy Jill Fehrenbacher, inhabitat.com When Hur­ri­cane Sandy hit last week, and the power in my lower Man­hat­tan apart­ment went out, my first thought, as I dug around for can­dles and LED lamps was “Well this will be a fun…

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  • Wealth and health of nations info graphic

    The Wealth & Health of Nations tumblr.com An inter­ac­tive graph­ic on “The Wealth and Health of Nations” by Mike Bostock, the graph­ics edi­tor at the New York Times and cre­ator of the D3 JavaScript Data Visu­al­iza­tion Library. This is a recre­ation of the famous Gap­Min­der… http://flpbd.it/66nDz Related articles Comparing the Perception of Wealth Inequality in…

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  • Floating sheep: mapping racist tweets in election

    Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama’s Re-election Matthew Zook, floatingsheep.org Note: for ques­tions about the methodology/approach of this post, see the FAQ (added 16:20 EST 11/9/2012). Note: as of 11:00 EST 11/10/2012, we have dis­abled com­ment­ing on this post. Dur­ing the day after the 2012… http://flpbd.it/nZi5W Related articles Judge who sent racist email…

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  • Why we need better voting systems

    Shame on the Republicans Who Curtailed Early Voting James Fallows, theatlantic.com Hours-long election lines stretching many city blocks are a national embarrassment. And those responsible should be condemned across ideological lines. In 32 states and Wash­ing­ton, D.C., vot­ers are eli­gi­ble to cast their bal­lot early with … http://flpbd.it/6byNS Related articles From the Director of the…

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  • The decline of the Fox News brain trust

    ‘There is some holy hell to pay’ Steve Benen, msnbc.com Getty Images I’ve never fully under­stood how Karl Rove devel­oped a rep­u­ta­tion as a strate­gic genius. In 2000, it was Rove’s idea to keep George W. Bush in Cal­i­for­nia in the cam­paign’s wan­ing days, instead of stump­ing in key… http://flpbd.it/juBYP Related articles Karl Rove Responds…

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  • Charles Darwin gets 4000 write-in votes against Rep. Paul Broun in Georgia election

    upi.com Remem­ber Rep. Paul Broun, the Geor­gia Repub­li­can whose speech decry­ing evo­lu­tion and the Big Bang The­o­ry (the sci­ence, not the hit TV show) as lies “from the pit of hell”? At least a few Geor­gia vot­ers did: at least 4,000 of them wro… http://flpbd.it/43sDn Charles Darwin gets 4000 write-in votes against Rep. Paul Broun…

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  • Data about God and belief

    This Week in God Steve Benen, msnbc.com First up from the God Machine this week is a look at the 2012 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, and the dif­fer­ences along reli­gious lines. The Pew Forum on Reli­gion & Pub­lic Life pub­lished a report this week based on exit polling data, and I put… http://flpbd.it/uLnnb

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  • Do natural disasters redistribute wealth?

    NYC Crime Rate Drops After Storm thedailybeast.com HURRICANE SANDY Hur­ri­cane Sandy may have dev­as­tat­ed areas of New York City, but there was one sil­ver lin­ing in the oth­er­wise mas­sive­ly destruc­tive storm cloud: the city’s over­all crime rate dropped 27 per­cent com­pared with the sam… http://flpbd.it/NBBoL Related articles A History of Disaster Capitalism (motherjones.com) How capitalism…

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  • The new green barons

    The New Pot Barons: Businessmen Bank on Marijuana By Tony Dokoupil, thedailybeast.com Pot use in the United States is rising sharply, and voters may make it fully legal in two states this fall. Smart businessmen are banking on that happening. Full dark in down­town Den­ver, and inside one of the twin­kling high-rises that make th……

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  • Power grid flaws exposed by Sandy hurricane

    Superstorm Shines A Light On Power Grid Vulnerabilities Scott Neuman, npr.org The storm that has spawned so many worst-ever superla­tives man­aged a few more when it comes to elec­tric­i­ty, with record-breaking power out­ages across 18 states stretch­ing from Michi­gan and Indi­ana to Maine and North Car­oli­na, accord­ing… http://flpbd.it/hDP1l Related articles Preparing The Grid For The…

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  • Avoiding mega hospital charges with retail clinics

    For Simple Care, Retail Clinics Are A Popular Choice Scott Hensley, npr.org If you’ve got the snif­fles or need a shot, do you go to the doc­tor or stop in at a clin­ic in a near­by drug­store? Lots of peo­ple are opt­ing for the clin­ics, which are spring­ing up inside gro­cery stores, big-box retail­ers and…

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  • Hard cider is rediscovered

    Americans Rediscover The Kick Of Hard Cider Nina Keck, npr.org Americans Rediscover The Kick Of Hard Cider NPR Morning Edition A cou­ple hun­dred years ago. hard apple cider used to be the drink of choice for thirsty Amer­i­cans. It was easy to make and easy to find. But as peo­ple moved into cities, and be……

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  • Accelerators Are the New B-school

    Flash Steinbeiser, inc.com Inc.com staff As more young entrepreneurs find success from their business accelerator contacts, the usefulness of traditional business school is put into question. Turns out, more and more young entre­pre­neurs favor the busi­ness con­tacts… http://flpbd.it/tBMY1 Accelerators Are the New B-school Related articles Brad Feld to write foreword for the book Accelerate (howtowriteabusinessplan.com)…

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  • How to wrangle control over your contacts

    Tech Trends: Tools for Managing Contacts John Brandon, inc.com TECH REPORT We tried out two basic CRM tools that help organize contacts—and stay in touch with them. I always thought cus­tomer rela­tion­ship man­age­ment soft­ware was strict­ly for sales­peo­ple. Recent­ly, I’ve been read­ing a lot abou… http://flpbd.it/fzw6u Related articles CRMs that have launched or been updated…

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  • Digital agencies learn to design culture

    How Agencies Can Hack Culture for Brand Insights Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com Pic­ture this: you’re in a meet­ing in which your team is chal­lenged to come up with ideas that tap into trends and pop cul­ture. Every­one at the table nods in agree­ment. Cul­ture! Yes. Impor­tant. Check. Two weeks later, only vague (if any)… http://flpbd.it/TWevT…

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  • Engineering language is the key to branding across culture

    Need Branding That Transcends Cultures? Invent Your Own Language By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A thoughtful identity gives a multinational disease research network a new way to communicate. Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty’s Clin­i­cal Research Unit is an 11-year-old net­work of groups that coop­er­ate to track and pre­vent infec­tious dis­eases, fro… http://flpbd.it/XD4bv Related articles geordie shore cast are surprise…

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