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GoPro Camera Records Sky Divers and Surfers By NICK BILTON, nytimes.com There have been two major milestones in narcissistic photography in the last century. The first was the invention of the self-timer, which Kodak began selling during World War I. The second came a few years ago, as teenagers stood at… RT @nytimesbits: Disruptions: A…
Bits Blog: Jeff Hawkins Develops a Brainy Big Data Company By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com Jeff Hawkins got rich and famous as the brains behind Palm, an early power in mobile data. He has also developed a new model of how we think, which will now be used, he says, to revolutionize the data analysis…
Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmers Market Bonnie Cha, allthingsd.com The benefits of your local farmers markets are plenty. You’re getting fresh food, supporting local farms and helping to create a more sustainable food system. But with limited hours and locations, you probably can’t take advanta… RT @allthingsd: Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmer’s Market…
What Is 23andMe Really Selling: The Moral Quandary At The Center Of The Personalized Genomics Revolution Steven Kotler, forbes.com This week, 23andme, the personalized genomics company founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, got an influx of investment cash ($50 million). According to their press release, they are using the money to…
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… RT @allthingsd:…
25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com Update: The petition has reached 25,000 signatures Almost immediately following the tragic school shooting in Connecticut, over 16,000 people have signed an official White House WeThePeople petition to “Immediately… RT @TechCrunch: Scores Flood White House With Online…
Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come December 18th, futurist extraordinaire Ray Kurzweil will be joining Google’s ranks as Director of Engineering to work on projects that involve machine learning and language processing. Specifics regarding those projects, howev… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable…
Cut the cord and say goodbye to cable Deborah Méndez-Wilson, special to USA TODAY, usatoday.com On-demand and online services offer more choices than cable—sometimes for free. Like everyone else, Audra Sharifi Isfahani and her husband James McCollough wanted to trim their costs in this down economy. They figured if they cut their… http://flip.it/lTsTR Related articles…
Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs by Casey Newton, cnet.com Google’s evolving database of the relationships between people, places and things gets a new dose of medicine. Searching for information about medicine on Google? You’ll soon find drugs injected into your search… http://flip.it/tRy2u Related articles Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com)…
Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do – Fortune Tech cnn.com Data-driven healthcare won’t replace physicians entirely, but it will help those receptive to technology perform their jobs better. By Vinod Khosla FORTUNE — Healthcare today is often really the “practice of medicine” rather than the… http://flip.it/t2nZy Related articles Vinod Khosla To Entrepreneurs: Venture…
Why IT is the core of the healthcare renaissance kevinmd.com Warning! I am a practicing doctor who sees real patients using an electronic medical record (EMR). My sole agenda is to provide the best patient care. I have no financial stake in information technology (IT). However, unlike the editorial board at… http://flip.it/YDFkX Related articles Practice…
Popcorn: Content Creation that Tastes Good iqagency.com A new type of video content creation. This post is about a brand new digital technology for video called Popcorn. It’s one of a number of technology led efforts to broaden what video is capable of, and in a world where soon 90% of da… http://flip.it/EZTdB
Stunningly surreal time remapping video David Pescovitz, boingboing.net “timeRemapExportHD” by Adrien M / Claire B. My friend Dustin Hostetler put it well: “I feel like in 50 to 100 years, when mankind looks back on this era of technology advancement, this is the sort of piece they’ll reference as the moment t… RT @BoingBoing: Stunningly…
Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results ilovecoffee.jp Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results – I Love Coffee http://flip.it/UB02D http://flip.it/FQbvX Related articles Death Wish Coffee is World’s Strongest (techeblog.com) Coffee Coffee Coffee (writingformultimedia.com)
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net This is possibly one of the weirdest things I have read this year. You (yes, you) are more likely to die around 11:00 am than any other time. That is, provided your death is the sort that happens in old age, as opposed to, say, being hit … RT @BoingBoing: The circadian…
scientificamerican.com Help researchers map the human microbiome, the microorganisms that inhabit every inch of our skin as well as our ears, mouth, sinuses, genitals and gut [More] uBiome, Citizen Science | Scientific American http://flip.it/6OVC4 http://flip.it/FKzXC uBiome Related articles The uBiome Citizen Science Project Interview (makezine.com) What Really Happens When You Take Antibiotics? (wakingtimes.com) On Ethics…
Do jellyfish hold the secret to immortality, and a cure for cancer? Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net Nathaniel Rich on the so-called “immortal jellyfish,” Turritopsis dohrnii: “[It] seems able to survive, and proliferate, in every ocean in the world. It is possible to imagine a distant future in which most other species of li… RT @BoingBoing: Do…
Free Coursera Calculus course with hand-drawn animated materials Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Robert Ghrist from University of Pennsylvania wrote in to tell us about his new, free Coursera course in single-variable Calculus, which starts on Jan 7. Calculus is one of those amazing, chewy, challenging branches of math, and… RT @BoingBoing: Free Coursera Calculus course with…
What birds are doing with your cigarette butts Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net Nicotine is one of nature’s bug zappers. Seriously. Lots of plants have evolved to produce bug-repelling chemicals as part of their defense mechanisms and tobacco happens to be one of those plants. So when city-dwelling birds use the… RT @BoingBoing: What birds are doing…
A taxonomy of Mitt Romney’s lies – Salon.com By Benjamin Wheelock, salon.com A close look at the most diverse and resilient species this side of the Galapagos “Jeep — now owned by the Italians — is thinking of moving all production to China.” “The president said he’d cut the deficit in half. Unfortunately, he… RT…
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