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  • JVC launches Procision slow-mo HD camcorder, refreshed Everio line at CES

    Daniel Cooper, engadget.com When it comes to launch­ing a ground­break­ing flag­ship video cam­era at CES, JVC’s got pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence. The com­pa­ny has outed the Pro­ci­sion GC-PX100, a 1,920 x 1,080 cam­corder that shoots at 36Mbps, a bit-rate that the com­pa­ny cla… http://flip.it/xWV3a F 1.2 lens on mid range model JVC launches Procision slow-mo HD camcorder,…

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  • Cambridge Semantics

    (via Cambridge Semantics – semanticweb.com) Related articles Cambridge Semantics Named 2013 SIIA CODiE Award Finalist (virtual-strategy.com) Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies (raygomore.wordpress.com) The basics of the “semantic web” (lordspratticus.wordpress.com) Next Steps For Semantic Services About Where To Eat And What You’re Eating (semanticweb.com)

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  • The New Science of Building Great Teams

    (via The New Science of Building Great Teams – Harvard Business Review) Related articles When Hell Froze Over – in The Harvard Business Review (blogs.berkeley.edu) Harvard Business Review reduced to quoting dead eugenicist for argument against Bitcoin (peculium.net) When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review (xconomy.com) The Two Most Important Words Managers…

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  • Willow Garage anthro of robots

    (via Overview | Willow Garage) Related articles As Willow Garage Shifts Course, a Key Robotics Platform Changes Stewardship (ostatic.com) Open Source Robotics Foundation Accelerates ROS Transition, Hires Key ROS Developers From Willow (spectrum.ieee.org) ROS Moving to Open Source Robotics Foundation (i-programmer.info) Robotics infiltrates Engadget’s Expand (robohub.org)

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  • Social Science Pushing Data Frontiers

    (via Social Science Pushing Data Frontiers – Information Management Blogs Article) Related articles Scott Atran: The Folly of Defunding Social Science (huffingtonpost.com) Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself? (guardian.co.uk) Data Science in Business/Computational Social Science in Academia? (r-bloggers.com) Two Week Capacity Building Programme for Faculty in Social Sciences (knowledgesteez.wordpress.com)

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  • Robot ethics: Morals and the machine

    (via Robot ethics: Morals and the machine | The Economist) Related articles Three Rules Won’t Get the Job Done | Ethics by the Book (csuitementor.wordpress.com) How the Non-Aggression Principle Works (rathbonezvizionz.wordpress.com)

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  • The Slow Medicine Movement

    (via The Slow Medicine Movement: My Mother, Your Mother « The Healthcare Marketer) Related articles I Kick. I Stretch and I am 50! 50 Years Old… (kinesisliving.wordpress.com) Slow Travel (edintoedin.wordpress.com) Physicians blend ancient wisdom and complementary practices with conventional medicine (blogs.vancouversun.com) Slow medicine (whyy.org) Medicinal Cannabis Activist Creed (kiefair.com) All Medicines are Drugs but not All…

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  • Geonaute 360 degree sports camera catches all the action

    Geonaute’s 360 degree sports camera catches all the action, even our hands on James Trew, engadget.com Sport and action cam­eras are big busi­ness, and even though there are a cou­ple of main play­ers, it doesn’t stop other’s try­ing to get a bite of the apple. Geo­naute, how­ev­er, have come at the sit­u­a­tion from a dif­fer­ent…

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  • Zoom iQ5 professional stereo microphone

    Zoom iQ5 professional stereo microphone hands-on Kevin Wong, engadget.com Ear­li­er at CES, we got our hands on the Rode iXY 30-pin stereo micro­phone iPhone add-on that left our Light­ning users a bit sad. Cheer up! The folks over at Zoom got us over to their booth to take a peek at the com­pa­ny’s new iQ5…

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  • Facebook tests VoIP, adds voice mail-like service

    Facebook tests VoIP, adds voice mail-like service by Donna Tam, cnet.com The social network updates its Messenger app with the ability to send recorded voice messages globally, but tests actual voice calls in Canada. iPhone users in Cana­da can now use Face­book to make voice calls, the social net­work revealed… http://flip.it/SKLUK Related articles Facebook launched…

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  • Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of 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… http://flip.it/sfvZe Related…

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  • Lumoback Posture-Monitoring

    Start-Up Behind Lumoback Posture-Monitoring Gadget Raises $5M Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com Lumo BodyTech, which makes a wear­able waist­band that tracks pos­ture and move­ment and vibrates when the wear­er slouch­es, has raised $5 mil­lion in Series A fund­ing led by Madrona Ven­ture Group. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up dou­ble… http://flip.it/mi6cM Related articles Posture Police (wired.com) LUMOback Posture…

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  • Apple watch on the horizon

    THE END OF SMARTPHONES: The Latest Rumor Is That Apple Is Working On A Computer Watch Nicholas Carlson, businessinsider.com Tech/Media Long before Apple ever revealed its lat­est iPhones and iPads to the pub­lic, we knew almost exact­ly what they would look like and what kind of fea­tures they would have thanks to rumors ema­nat­ing from…

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  • How to never get lost again: apps for travel

    Road Tripping In The Digital Age Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com I’m just wrap­ping up a week-long road trip, in which a trav­el com­pan­ion and I vis­it­ed some friends in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. We hit up a few dif­fer­ent spots along the way, includ­ing San Luis Obis­po, Santa Bar­bara, Los Ange­les, San… RT @TechCrunch: Road Tripping In The…

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  • How the iPhone can streamline cumbersome medical care

    Top Ten Medical Uses of the iPhone internetmedicine.com (SOURCE: John Ben­nett MD: www.internetmedicine.com) Decem­ber 15, 2012 The cre­ation and wide­spread use of the iPhone has impact­ed many indus­tries, and now has affect­ed Med­i­cine in many ways. In many­cas­es the iPhone appli­fies the po… http://flip.it/0JXBc  

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  • Case lets you film people with an iPhone laying flat (like presidential campaign fund raisers)

    iPhone case allows you to take photos with phone held horizontally Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net The Mir­ror­Case for the iPhone lets you take pho­tos while hold­ing the phone flat, like an old-timey cam­era. It seems like a good way to shoot video of your­self, too – just set it on a table and do your thing.…

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  • Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies

      Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net In “Cred­i­bil­i­ty rank­ing of tweets dur­ing high impact events,” a paper pub­lished in the ACM’s Pro­ceed­ings of the 1st Work­shop on Pri­va­cy and Secu­ri­ty in Online Social Media , two Indraprastha Insti­tute of Infor­ma­tion… Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency Related articles Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics…

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  • Car deaths by time of day

    Infographic: Showing When People Get Killed In Cars, Using Excel By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com John Nelson’s charts and maps on traffic fatalities are a reminder that a good data viz doesn’t always require graphic design chops—or software. With the abun­dance of data visu­al­iza­tion projects we’ve seen over the last few years, it’s hard… RT @FastCoDesign:…

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  • Transit apps and commuter happiness

    Study: Transit Apps Make Us Happier Commuters By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A study of two crowdsourcing apps suggests that a better digital infrastructure for commuters could improve urban transit overall. We know that we tend to be hap­pi­est when we’re com­mu­ni­cat­ing with and help­ing those around us. But could th… RT @FastCoDesign: Study: Transit Apps…

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  • Driving apps reviewed: do black box apps really work?

    (via Driving apps for iPhone reviewed – black box video – What Car?)

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  • Dashcam: iPhone black box app for car

    (via DashCam: The iPhone BlackBox App For Your Car – Mobile Magazine) Related articles 30 Best iPhone and iPad apps this week (guardian.co.uk)

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  • The Canon s100 is a Great Point-and-Shoot

    Kyle VanHemert, thewirecutter.com The Canon S100 is a great point and shoot cam­era. The RX100 by Sony is the best, but the S100 is about half the price and still very good. (Updat­ed Octo­ber 19, 2012: Added com­par­isons to the recent­ly reviewed the Canon S110) Thoug… The Canon s100 is a Great Point-and-Shoot | The…

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  • Compact cameras with pro features

    (via Roundup: Enthusiast Zoom Compact Cameras: Digital Photography Review) Related articles Ricoh GR Camera (gadget.com) Five Best MIrrorless Interchangeable Lens Cameras (lifehacker.com) Adding some sense to camera types (patrickfinney13.wordpress.com)

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  • Olympus xz-2: a fast, bright lens, compact for field use

    (via Olympus XZ-2 review | Compact cameras Reviews | TechRadar) Related articles New camera roadmap from Olympus (gerafotografija.wordpress.com) Olympus OM-D EM-5 | Street Point of View and a Little Vacation (opticalcollimator.com) Olympus xz1 professional underwater camera housing 294 feet 90 m depth rating (slideshare.net)

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  • Wirecutter picks best camera under a grand

    The Olympus E-PL5 is our favorite camera under $950 (So Far!) Tim Barribeau, thewirecutter.com If you’re look­ing for a cam­era that’s pock­etable but still pow­er­ful, one that can change lens­es but won’t destroy your sav­ings account, one that’s not the bot­tom of the bar­rel, nor top of the line, then there are a cou­ple of…

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  • Lifehacker: best computer monitors

    Five Best Computer Monitors Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Upgrading your computer’s hardware isn’t the only way to feel like you have a new machine. A new monitor can go a long way towards making your computer more fun to use and more functional. At the same time, there are hundreds of displays out there… Five Best…

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  • Is it Okay to Use an HDTV as a Computer Monitor?

    lifehacker.com Dear Life­hack­er, I’ve been debat­ing between buy­ing a new com­put­er mon­i­tor or an HDTV to use with my PC. Since large mon­i­tors (say about 27 inch­es) are close to the prices of a decent sized HDTV (say 32 inch­es or small­er) which woul… Is it Okay to Use an HDTV as a Computer Monitor?…

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