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Many people have had the misfortune of receiving a package that has been roughhoused in transit. A lot of times we don’t even realized it until we opened the package. Cambridge Consultants’ DropTag might just serve as the insurance we need.
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EyeSight Technologies
Touching and swiping are commonplace ways to interact with TVs, computers, and mobile devices thanks to smartphones, tablets, and Windows 8. But what if you want to do the same without touching the screen at all? (Videos)
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Wall Street
Years ago Dell computers used to be pretty cool. But the company that was started by the youngest CEO to every sit atop the Fortune 500, Michael Dell, is as outdated and out of place in today’s world as the old CRT monitor in the back of my parents’ garage.
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Logo for the Russian search engine, Yandex.
The biggest search engine few people have ever heard of. is probably Yandex. According to Search Engine Watch, the Russian search engine has surpassed Microsoft’s Bing in the world’s top search engine rankings. Search Engine Watch got its data from ComScore.
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Content will come to you.
You can call it “anticipatory computing,” or “information gravitation” or whatever you want, but it appears the future of search isn’t search at all. Instead, next-generation applications will surface the information we need when we need it — whether we know we need it or not.
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“Chicago has developed into a city that every investor must watch.”
Chicago’s most innovative minds launched 197 digital startups in 2012, up from 193 launched in 2011. 59 companies secured funding of at least $1M in 2012, an increase from 44 companies in 2011. (Infographic)
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There are nowhere near enough “data scientists.”
It is currently accepted that the people who understand Big Data – the enormous datasets of information being collected with nearly every click of every computing device on the planet – will rule the roost in the future. If you can predict behavior by measuring and monitoring people’s machines down to an almost atomic level, you can make both your customers and your shareholders much happier.
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The right to keep and fly drones.
A Virginia House panel approved, last week, a two-year moratorium on drone use within the state. In December, the City Council in Berkeley debated a similar proposal from its Peace and Justice Commission. The Peace and Justice Commission wanted to prohibit the city from purchasing, borrowing, testing or using drones, or allowing “drones in transit.” However, hobbyists would have been allowed to use drones which didn’t carry cameras or audio surveillance equipment. The legislation was shot down because, as Berkeley Councilman Gordon Wozniak argued, “Berkeley doesn’t have jurisdiction over its airspace and can’t enforce it unless we buy Patriot missiles to shoot things down.” Both of these bills were prompted by law enforcement officials wanting to use drones for surveillance and intelligence gathering.The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) calls this “spying.”
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Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Stanford University computer science professors who started Coursera,
Coursera, an online-education provider is one step closer to academic acceptance, saying Thursday that the American Council on Education would recommend colleges grant credit for the successful completion of some of its free classes.
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Crazyflie is a nippy new quadrocopter and has just been made available for pre-order by Sweden’s Bitcraze. Unlike other pint-sized fliers like the (yet to be released) NanoQ and MeCam, this impressive-looking critter won’t arrive in one piece and all ready to fly. Instead, Crazyflie is being made available as a self-build quadrocopter development and hacking kit.
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Stories about a disgraced researcher get pulled by WordPress.
A crazy story came to light after a DMCA takedown notice last week. The story involves falsified medical research, plagiarism, and legal threats. The site, Retraction Watch has followed the implosion of a Duke cancer researcher’s career (among the many other issues they follow), found a lot of its articles on the topic pulled by WordPress, its host. Why did this happen? It turns out that a small site in India copied all of the posts and claimed them as their own. They then filed a DMCA takedown notice to get the original posts pulled from their source. The original posts are still missing as their actual owners seek to have them restored.
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Florence Martin-Kessler, a documentary filmmaker and Anne Poiret, a filmmaker and investigative journalist embarked on the first of four trips to Juba in 2011. Juba is the soon-to-be capital of South Sudan. Their mission was to follow he “state builders.” The state builders are the people in the South Sudanese government and in the United Nations who would be on the front line of implementing, step by step, a road map for the world’s newest state.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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