Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • In China More Than 30 Million People Live in Eco-Friendly Caves

    In China More Than 30 Million People Live in Eco-Friendly Caves | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From…

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  • Cleantech Experts On Romney’s Energy Plan

    Cleantech Experts On Romney’s Energy Plan: ‘A Political Document Not Worth Serious Analysis’ By Climate Guest Blogger on Aug 30, 2012 at 12:21 pm, thinkprogress.org by Wal­ter Frick, via BostIn­no The cen­tral ener­gy chal­lenge we face as a nation and a plan­et is the tran­si­tion away from fos­sil fuels, which con­tribute to cli­mate change, to clean…

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  • Welcome to the new reputation economy

    Welcome to the new reputation economy (Wired UK) By Rachel Botsman, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Sep­tem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flpbd.it/oQYQN Related articles TrustCloud: Harness Technology to…

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  • Netatmo Urban Weather Station

    Netatmo Urban Weather Station tells iOS users when it’s safe to brave the great outdoors (video) Jon Fingas, engadget.com We haven’t seen weath­er sta­tions gar­ner the same level of clever mobile inte­gra­tion as other pieces of house­hold gear — like, say, ther­mostats. Netat­mo wants its newly avail­able Urban Weath­er Sta­tion to inject a sim­i­lar dose…

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  • Sony Action Cam

    Sony Action Cam – Digital Camcorders cnet.com Its exis­tence wasn’t a secret, but Sony’s Action Cam is now no longer a pro­to­type. The super­com­pact cam­corder mea­sures 2 inch­es high by 2.6 inch­es deep by 0.9 inch wide and looks more like Con­tour’s and JVC’s mod­els than the blocky Go… http://flpbd.it/pInKj Related articles Sony Action Cam…

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  • New models for venture firms find both ideas and the money

    Knode and other local startups are the focus of new vc approaches that involve less time shuffling papers at a desk, and more time doing ethnographic research on what people actually do. Some venture firms find both ideas and the money – Boston.com. Related articles Fred Wilson says venture capital funds have gotten too big…

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  • Anant Agarwal: expanding online education from MIT and Harvard with EdX

    Anant Agarwal believes an online education from MIT and Harvard should be available to all – Magazine – The Boston Globe. Related articles Why Comparing edX to MIT is Like Comparing a Toyota to a Ferrari (bostinno.com) UC Berkeley latest to join edX program (zdnet.com) Q & A with Anant Agarwal: Anant Agarwal Discusses Free…

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  • Coursera: Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level

        Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level – NYTimes.com. Related articles Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level – NYTimes.com (policyabcs.wordpress.com) The Way of the Future: Coursera (jaypgreene.com) Are online courses more susceptible to cheating problems? (blogs.ajc.com) Progress Making Higher Education More Affordable (healthymemory.wordpress.com) Why Are Students Cheating on…

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  • Is behavioral science the new ‘Freakonomics’?

    Is neuroscience the new ‘Freakonomics’? – Ideas@Innovations – The Washington Post. Related articles Freakonomics Quiz: Twice Is Enough (freakonomics.com) NBC Buys ‘Freakonomics’-Inspired Drama Procedural Produced By Kelsey Grammer | Deadline (shortformblog.com) FREAK-est Links (freakonomics.com) NBC Buys ‘Freakonomics’-Inspired Drama Procedural Produced By Kelsey Grammer (deadline.com) With SOPA gone, setting Internet advocacy’s next stop @WashingtonPost covers Internet…

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  • Employers put offices in social media pockets

    By Cory Brown, washingtontimes.com It is a man­ag­er’s prob­lem that Henry Ford and even a young Bill Gates never had to deal with – how to main­tain pro­duc­tiv­i­ty when work­ers are using valu­able com­pa­ny time to update their Face­book sta­tus or check their Twit­ter feeds. http://flpbd.it/vKpIL Employers put offices in social media pockets Related articles…

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  • The World Happiness Report

    The World Happiness Report Explains What Makes People Happy BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com What are the secrets from the happiest people on Earth? Some make sense: Be wealthy, married, and have a job. From there, though, it gets more complicated. Editor’s Note The idea of mea­sur­ing and fos­ter­ing hap­pi­ness is a grow­ing idea. I… http://flpbd.it/nQ4zp…

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  • Growth Hacking — Livestream

    eventbrite.com http://flpbd.it/2d4ks Growth Hacking — Livestream Related articles Growth Hacking is Simply Advanced Product Management (johnpeltier.com)

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  • Why Don’t Young Americans Buy Cars?

    Why Don’t Young Americans Buy Cars? Jordan Weissmann, theatlantic.com Auto mak­ers are wor­ried about the Mil­len­ni­als. They just don’t seem to care about own­ing a car. Is this a gen­er­a­tional shift, or just a lousy econ­o­my at work? Kids these days. They don’t get mar­ried. They don’t buy homes. And,… http://flpbd.it/zeQMx Related articles Young drivers…

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  • Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email

        Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email   Jordan Weissmann, theatlantic.com     Unless you hap­pen to get some sort of obses­sive com­pul­sive sat­is­fac­tion from keep­ing your inbox in ship­shape — and hey, if you do, more power to ya — deal­ing with email has got to be one of the…

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  • The Next Gen Datacenter

    Big Data: Facebook’s next big idea By Gery Menegaz for Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter | August 1, 2012 — 17:00 GMT (10:00 PDT) Follow @GeryMenegaz, zdnet.com The Face­book fal­la­cy is that at its core the Social Net­work is real­ly an adver­tis­ing com­pa­ny. If you look at their quar­ter­ly report, you see that about…

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  • How Sanofi Is Writing The Social Media Rules For Big Pharma

    How Sanofi Is Writing The Social Media Rules For Big Pharma Without Running Afoul Of The FDA By Ben Paynter, fastcompany.com The biggest chal­lenge to treat­ing patients with dia­betes isn’t dol­ing out med­ica­tions, it’s mak­ing sure that peo­ple con­trol their habits. Poor diet and lack of exer­cise gen­er­al­ly cre­ate com­pli­ca­tions with the dis­ease. To com­bat…

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