How Satyamev Jayate, India’s favorite TV show uses data to change the world

The show analyzes the millions of messages they receive on controversial issues to do everything from planning future episodes to pushing for political change.

In India every Sunday morning millions of people in India tune in to watch Bollywood star Aamir Khan host one of the country’s highest-rated television shows, Satyamev Jayate. Only unlike so many popular programs, Satyamev Jayate doesn’t involve a singing competition or a collection of volatile strangers living under the same roof. It’s a documentary program tackling some of the country’s most-sensitive topics, and it has the whole country — indeed, the whole world — talking. In order to funnel millions of messages a week into something valuable, the shows producers have turned to big data. (video)

 

 

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MIT’s autonomous robotic plane’s indoor flight: Video

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Academic and industry researchers have been working  for decades on control algorithms for autonomous helicopters — robotic helicopters that pilot themselves, rather than requiring remote human guidance. Dozens of research teams have competed in a series of autonomous-helicopter challenges posed by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI); progress has been so rapid that the last two challenges have involved indoor navigation without the use of GPS.

 

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Americans dropping pay-TV services in record numbers

DirecTV revealed its first ever quarterly customer losses, with some 52,000 homes dropping the service in the second quarter.

High unemployment, a weak housing market ombined with a mature business prone to regular programming blackouts has seen more than 400,000 American homes drop their pay-TV service since the start of the year.

 

 

 

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GiraDora – a foot-powered washing machine that will change millions of lives

GiraDora – a foot-powered washing machine.

Two design students named Alex Cabunoc and Ji A You traveled from their homes in Los Angeles to Cerro Verde, a 30,000 person slum outside of Lima about a year ago. As students in the celebrated Design Matters program at Art Center College of Design, which focuses on social innovation, they had come to Cerro Verde as part of a special studio called Safe Agua Peru. Their goal? Develop a commercial product that alleviates issues related to water poverty, targeted at people who earn between $4 and $10 a day. (Video)

 

 

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Why online videos are the future of marketing

Online video will soon dominate your time spent on the web.

Chances are that in the past three years that you have watched an online video.  Almost every site on the internet that you visit has a video displayed in some form.  Video viewership has skyrocketed and there are no signs of it slowing down.

 

 

 

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5 secrets every presenter should know about people

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“The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public,” George Jessel famously quipped.  Dr. Susan Weinschenk unpacks the secrets of eliciting response from people — the core purpose of design, it’s been argued — through a combination of behavioral science, psychology, and practical examples to alleviate the misery and mystery of public speaking in 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People.

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Chinese construction company to build world’s tallest building in 90 days

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Broad Sustainable Building, a construction company in China, has announced plans to build the world’s tallest building…in just 90 days. When finished, it will be 220 stories high, 10 meters taller than Dubai’s Burj Khalifa.

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A visualization of airplane flight paths in the U.S.

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How may airplanes fly above our heads everyday?

Aaron Koblin knows the answer: It can be more than 19,000 in the United States. And thanks to his wizardry with FAA data, we can see how these aircraft drift from city to city in this mesmerizing computer visualization.

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MIT researchers develop self-cleaning glass

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A team of researchers at MIT claim to have developed a new and improved glass that is both anti-fogging and glare-free. The near-invisible glass is also said to be self-cleaning, and it could have dozens of practical applications.

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