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Internet inventor, Vint Cerf, worried about its survival

Vint Cerf, inventor of the Internet Protocol [IP] and Transmission Control Protocol [TCP].

One of the two or three people who can rightly claim to have invented the internet is Vint Cerf.  He is now worried about its survival.

Cerf is specifically concerned about the World Conference on International Telecommunications, happening now through December 14 in Dubai. At this meeting, for the first time since 1988, the countries of the world will gather to try and update international agreements on how to handle data, voice, and other communications technologies. (Video)

 

 

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Business, Great Videos, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Companies store data but have no idea what to do with it once it’s stored

Companies that had collected unstructured data (texts, emails, reports, and so on), but had no idea about what to do once it was stored.

Even though Big Data is all the rage it’s rare that you’ll hear real case-studies from companies that are storing, processing and analyzing vast stores of data.

 

 

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The Future of the Visual Arts

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ABC’s Weekend Breakfast with Andrew Geoghegan

Futurist Thomas Frey:  On Nov 26-28th, I will be speaking at the Creative Innovations 2012 event in Melbourne, Australia. The theme of the conference will be “Wicked Problems, Great Opportunities! Leadership and courage for volatile times.”

 

 

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Great Videos, Science & Technology News

Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice

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Microsoft has posted a video with a complementary explanation of language translation that goes far past what we thought was currently possible.  The speaker explains and demonstrates improvements made to the machine understanding of his English words, which are automatically transcribed as he speaks. He then demonstrates having those words translated directly into Mandarin.

 

 

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Online viewers abandon video if it doesn’t play in 2 seconds: Study

Faster internet connections have made viewers more impatient.

Revenues are declining for the traditional forms of online advertising.  Emerging as a bright spot for many media companies is the video.  It offers an opportunity for long engagement and hefty ad rates — but also a challenge to make it work.

 

 

 

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Alternative Transportation, Breakthrough Thinking, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

Volkswagen’s futuristic flying car concept

Volkswagen’s flying car

Seeing a flying cars in a sci-fi movie is a common site. The flying car has won hearts of many science fiction fanatics. Be it the glass bubble from “The Jetsons” or the cab from “The Fifth Element,” all these vehicles have mesmerized audiences for a long now. (Video)

 

 

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Great Videos, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

New research and tools promise to improve life for the colorblind

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For people who are colorblind, daily life can be a challenge. Daily challenges range from not knowing whether meat is fully cooked to not being able to read whether a horizontal traffic light is showing green or red. More serious repercussions include being shut out of a dream job, like piloting planes, because misreading landing-strip lights can have life-or-death consequences.

 

 

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Top 5 trends that are changing how we do big data

Time to rethink the who, what, where, why and how of big data.

It is probably time to rethink the who, what, where, why and how of big data. There has been a surge of important news in the past couple weeks, where we are approaching a period of relative calm and can finally assess how the space has evolved in the past year. Here are the top five trends shaping up that should change almost everything about big data in the near future, including how it’s done, who’s doing it and where it’s consumed.

 

 

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Business, Science & Technology News

Apple stores start selling $199 Philips Hue custom LED light kits

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The Apple Store sells more smart devices for the home other that the Nest learning thermostats.  The retail chain will soon begin selling Philips’ ‘Hue’ LED light bulb kits, which let you control the color of light in your rooms from your smart device.

 

 

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MindMeld app: First voice and video calling app that understands conversations in real-time

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The serial entrepreneur, Tim Tuttle,  who co-founded web acceleration technology company Bang Networks and video search engine Truveo (acquired by AOL), has returned with his third startup, Expect Labs, which he co-founded with Moninder Jheeta (who built infrastructure for Truveo.) Expect Labs has announced its first product, an iPad app for simplified group conferencing called MindMeld that is built upon Expect’s core technology concept — anticipatory computing. Even as a demo, it is an impressive piece of technology that shows where the future of computing is headed. (video)

 

 

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