Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • Samsung patents voice recognition for emotional state

    Samsung patent ties emotional states to virtual faces through voice, shows when we’re cracking up Jon Fingas, engadget.com Voice recog­ni­tion usu­al­ly applies to com­mu­ni­ca­tion only in the most util­i­tar­i­an sense, whether it’s to trans­late on the spot or to keep those hands on the wheel while send­ing a text mes­sage. Sam­sung has just been grant­ed…

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  • Why your body is the next target for social technology

    Smart Body, Smart World: The Next Phase of Personal Computing Sarah Rotman Epps, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, allthingsd.com In the past half-century, com­put­ing has evolved from the main­frame to the desk­top to the shoul­der bag to the pock­et, and now it’s tak­ing over new fron­tiers: our phys­i­cal bod­ies, and the phys­i­cal envi­ron­ments that we inhab­it.…

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  • Sokanu uses science to find out what you’re good at

    Sokanu Says Science Can Help You Find Your Dream Job Eric Johnson, allthingsd.com Why do you work where you do and are you happy there? If the answer is “no” for the sec­ond ques­tion, Spencer Thomp­son has a new answer for the first. Thomp­son, 21, is the CEO of Vancouver-based Sokanu, which offi­cial­ly launch­es this…

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  • New York Magazine captures post Sandy NY

    New York Magazine Captures the Look of Post-Sandy New York Arik Hesseldahl, allthingsd.com To the list of New York insti­tu­tions that saw their oper­a­tions dis­rupt­ed by the Super­storm known as Sandy last week, add New York Mag­a­zine. With offices on Var­ick and Canal Streets, it is sit­u­at­ed right at the bor­der­line between t… http://flpbd.it/Den3G Related…

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  • New Jersey’s trial by fire of electronic voting

    Security Researchers Warn New Jersey’s Emergency Email Voting Could Be An Insecure, Illegal Nightmare Andy Greenberg, forbes.com New Jer­sey’s deci­sion to allow vot­ers strand­ed by super­storm Sandy to vote by email in Tues­day’s elec­tion may be an inno­v­a­tive exper­i­men­tal response to a badly-timed nat­ur­al dis­as­ter. But secu­ri­ty researchers are warn­ing that t… http://flpbd.it/7DWj0 Related articles…

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  • Do not believe the marketing about fancy HDMI cables

    Still more reasons why all HDMI cable are the same by Geoffrey Morrison, cnet.com Peo­ple still have ques­tions about HDMI. Here are more answers. Even after two arti­cles, and a tremen­dous amount of page hits, there still seems to be lots of ques­tions about HDMI cables. I cred­it this to the com­plex­i­ty of the top……

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  • Why Pharma conferences need to be about what patients really need

    Let Patients Create- A Rally Call Jon Gwillim, eyeforpharma.com Précis: There’s an old say­ing; “if you want some­thing done prop­er­ly, do it your­self”. My back­ground is as a con­fer­ence researcher and organ­is­er – for phar­ma, with phar­ma. I focused on dig­i­tal oppor­tu­ni­ties, case-studies and… http://flpbd.it/CdnZ6 Related articles ePharma Summit Top 5 (portal.lillycoi.com) Bad Pharma Audiobook…

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  • After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting

    After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting Arik Hesseldahl, allthingsd.com Hold­ing an elec­tion is com­pli­cat­ed. Hold­ing an elec­tion eight days after a his­tor­i­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant dis­as­ter? Prob­a­bly expo­nen­tial­ly so. This is the cir­cum­stance in which the state of New Jer­sey will find itself… http://flpbd.it/WCGB4 Related articles Christie to personally call out…

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  • Chris Jordan’s Portraits of American Mass Consumption

    Chris Jordan’s Portraits of American Mass Consumption Kaushik, amusingplanet.com Amer­i­can pho­tog­ra­ph­er Chris Jor­dan using large-scale works depict the mag­ni­tude of our con­sumerism and its impact on our envi­ron­ment. Like Edward Bur­tyn­sky, Jor­dan uses large scale pho­tographs to depict scenes of infra­struc­ture a… http://flpbd.it/3sGTD Related articles Midway – A film by Chris Jordan (vinodkumartiwari.wordpress.com) Our Earth,…

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  • Why Panasonic Lumix GH3 will be the best video tool

    Panasonic Lumix GH3 launches on December 13th, but pricing remains a mystery Mat Smith, engadget.com Pana­son­ic’s forth­com­ing mirror-less mul­ti­me­dia won­der has been given a release date. Yep, the Lumix GH3, with its ‘unlim­it­ed record­ing time’ and mag­ne­sium alloy build, will arrive in the Land of the Ris­ing Sun just over a month from… http://flpbd.it/IcIl5 Related…

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  • iPad Mini: To Doctors, Size Does Matter

    mobiquityinc.com Octo­ber 26, 2012 A stan­dard lab-coat pock­et is about 8.5 inch­es by 7.5 inch­es. An iPad mini comes in at 7.87 by 5.3 inch­es, mean­ing that it is the first pocket-sized iPad (at least, if you’re into wear­ing lab coats) to hit the mar­ket.… http://flpbd.it/fp9Fn iPad Mini: To Doctors, Size Does Matter Related articles…

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  • Stitcher is the best podcast app keeps the news flowing

    Stitcher keeps the news flowing for desktop users with new web-based app Zachary Lutz, engadget.com Stitch­er is already a heavy hit­ter in the world of mobile apps, but users will now find their favorite radio shows and pod­casts are acces­si­ble from the desk­top. Today, the com­pa­ny announced an HTML5 ver­sion of its pop­u­lar app that’s……

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  • Belkin’s NetCam WiFi Camera is Mac compatible

    Belkin’s NetCam WiFi Camera with Night Vision keeps an eye out for ghosts while you’re out, hooks up with iOS / Android Ben Gilbert, engadget.com Out of town for Hal­loween and wor­ried that your empty house is get­ting filled with ethe­re­al cat­bur­glars? You can’t even see what they’re tak­ing! Belkin’s got a solu­tion for you…

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  • LinkedIn disrupts biotech pharma recruiting

    LinkedIn: The Quiet Force Transforming Biotech & Pharma Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke Tim­mer­man Mark Levin’s busi­ness is biotech­nol­o­gy, so it’s no sur­prise he knew zilch about a tech com­pa­ny called LinkedIn as recent­ly as two years ago. But these days Levin sounds like he can bare­ly do his job with­out… http://flpbd.it/TIANz Related articles LinkedIn: Revolutionizing…

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  • Recruiters who know social media are in demand

    Recruiter Job Demand Remains Strong www.recruiter.com, recruiter.com Accord­ing to a new sur­vey by WANT­ED Ana­lyt­ics, there were over 14,000 jobs post­ed online in Sep­tem­ber for recruiters and other staffing pro­fes­sion­als. The num­ber rep­re­sents a 12 per­cent growth over Sep­tem­ber 2011, but a… http://flpbd.it/WuLdr Related articles Using Twitter As A Social Recruiting Tool (windmillnetworking.com) LinkedIn: Revolutionizing…

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  • Business Cards Do High-Tech Work

    wsj.com Many tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies and entre­pre­neurs that deal with most­ly vir­tu­al prod­ucts are embrac­ing the tac­tile busi­ness card. http://flpbd.it/Uigzi Business Cards Do High-Tech Work Related articles Bidding goes high-tech at MCHA fundraiser (heraldtimesonline.com) Superhero Business Cards – These Custom 3D Business Cards Will Make You Look Like a Superstar (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com) All You Need to…

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  • Knode attempts to compete with LinkedIn in biotech networking

    Knode: The Next Stage of the Internet is About What You Know Alex E. Weaver, bostinno.com Pre­dict­ing what’s “next” for the Inter­net can be a lot like surf­ing the web itself: daunt­ing, frus­trat­ing and often point­less. There’s a lot of infor­ma­tion swirling around out there, after all, and peo­ple are inter­act­ing with it in… http://flpbd.it/rXXmp…

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  • Why telecommuting saves costs, time and your health

    The Perks of Working From Home Jennifer Shore, mashable.com If you’re part of the 86% who drive to work every day, you can devise ways to lower your gas costs, save time and improve your health — by telecom­mut­ing. The cur­rent work­force totals more than 128 mil­lion peo­ple, and while eight out of 10… http://flpbd.it/nTXRQ…

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  • The anthropology of why constant contact makes you alone

    In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY As soon as Sher­ry Turkle arrived at the stu­dio for her Fresh Air inter­view, she real­ized she’d for­got­ten her phone. “I real­ized I’d left it behind, and I fel… http://flpbd.it/lzBmU…

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  • Hurricane Sandy: another climate wake up call

    Sandy Raises Questions About Climate And The Future Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org Sandy Raises Questions About Climate And The Future Fresh Air from WHYY If you ask cli­mate sci­en­tist Radley Hor­ton, it’s dif­fi­cult to say that Hur­ri­cane Sandy was direct­ly caused by cli­mate change, but he sees strong con­nec­tions betw… http://flpbd.it/L0BSs Related articles Connecting…

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  • The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100

    Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I real­ly enjoyed read­ing a recent story in The New York Times Mag­a­zine about attempts to under­stand extreme longevi­ty — the weird ten­den­cy for cer­tain pop­u­la­tions to have larger-than-average num­bers of peo­ple who live well into their… http://flpbd.it/cEMb5 The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100 Related articles…

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  • See what the world will look like without power

    New York City in post-storm darkness: photos by Randy Scott Slavin Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net NYC UNPLUGGED, a series by pho­tog­ra­ph­er Randy Scott Slavin doc­u­ment­ing the dark­ness in New York City after Hur­ri­cane Sandy caused wide­spread power out­ages: New York City is always bright. Street lights, business marquees, ligh… http://flpbd.it/4inHF Related articles A Study of Shadows…

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