“Internet of Things”
We will soon be able to build apps for our cars, thermostats, refrigerators, and more thanks to the “Internet of Things.” But what happens when attackers get into your company’s system through an ice maker instead of the phishing email we’re all so used to?
Women aged 75 and younger are dying at higher rates than previous years.
There is compelling evidence from a new study that the expectancy for some U.S. women is falling, a disturbing trend that experts can’t explain. The study found that women aged 75 and younger are dying at higher rates than previous years in nearly half of the nation’s counties. many of the women lived in rural areas and in the West and South. For men, life expectancy has held steady or improved in nearly all counties.
Continue reading… “Lifespan declining in women in some parts of U.S.: Study”
Technology will make education even more accessible and more reliable than it has today.
Kevin Kelly told the audience at the 2007 EG Conference for youth and young adults that 10 years ago no one would have believed the Internet was coming, least of all him.
Humans have been interfacing with machines for thousands of years.
You have probably heard a lot about wearables, living services, the Internet of Things, and smart materials by now. Designers are beginning to think about even weirder and wilder things, envisioning a future where evolved technology is embedded inside our digestive tracts, sense organs, blood vessels, and even our cells.
Continue reading… “The human body will be the next computer interface”
70 billion apps will be downloaded worldwide in 2013.
Ten apps will be downloaded for every single woman, man, and child on the planet in 2013. According to ABI Research, half of those apps will be Android apps, which will have 58 percent smartphone app share and 41 percent of those will be iOS apps. Thirty-three percent of smartphone app downloads will be for the Apple iPhone while the iPadwill take 75 percent of tablet app downloads. Windows Phone and tablet devices will account for the majority of the rest, with BlackBerry taking about a 2 percent share.
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Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University presented the results at a conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
For the very first time, a baby born with HIV has reported to have been cured at age 2 1/2 through an aggressive drug treatment with antiretroviral drugs.
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Monaco
According to the list of the world’s billionaires released by Forbes the United States isn’t even in the top 1o. At the top the list is a tiny country with a relatively small but proportionally large number of billionaires. That country is Monaco. Monaco has three billionaires—specifically, David and Ezra Nahmad, two brothers who are art “megadealers,” along with Lily Safra, the widow of a wealthy banker.
Recently, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance compiled this map of all the communities in the country that control their own access to the Internet. There are about 340 of them with publicly owned fiber-optic or cable networks, serving either all or parts of town. Those residents and businesses in the places served don’t have to spar with telecom giants like AT&T and Comcast. They get their Internet instead – like many communities do their electric utility – straight from the city.
Continue reading… “Why there are no big cities that have municipal broadband networks”
Share everything
At Union Kitchen in Northeast Washington, D.C., the “equipment library” contains some of the more mundane artifacts of the modern “sharing economy”: an oversized whisk, a set of spatulas, ladles, chopping knives, sheet pans and tongs. It is also know as “collaborative consumption,” and is more often associated with the big-ticket items that have given the concept such bemusing cachet. Suddenly, it seems, people are casually lending and borrowing cars, bikes, even brownstones. But this basic kitchenware, hanging in a 7,300 square-foot warehouse, reveals the reaches to which all this sharing could ultimately expand, as well as the reasons why it will have to.
Continue reading… “The sharing economy – the way we consume has changed forever”
The world is your classroom.
If you and a group of friends are arguing about some piece of trivia and someone says, Let’s look this up on Wikipedia,” and then that person starts to read the information out loud to the group, thus resolving the argument. This represents a microlearning moment. This actually foreshadows a much larger transformation – socialstructed learning.
Continue reading… “The future of education eliminates the classroom”
Human bowling ball game
How are you going to spend your summer? You could go on a vacation and generate some silly memories that will only bring you a moment of satisfaction but won’t negate the constant, pesky issue called nagging kids. So if the Sports Park 60 is a bit too far outside of your “I can handle that”, might we suggest the Human Bowling Ball.
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Watson
IBM achieved a quantum leap in artificial intelligence technology in 2011 when its Watson computer program trounced human champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a three-day Jeopardy! tournament, taking home the million-dollar prize by outscoring the second place competitor by a three-to-one margin.