October 2010
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Oct 27th
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“If an Apple designer pitched this craplution to Steve Jobs, he’d rip their...”
– http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/22/hp-slate-has-a-bad-solution-to-too-many-stickers-syndrome/
Oct 22nd
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Opinon: Andy Rubin's tweet to Steve Jobs
Take this tweet by Google’s own Andy Rubin in response to Steve Jobs’ recent comments on the ‘open’ vs. ‘closed’ debate surrounding Android and iOS. If you understand what the tweet means, you’re in a privileged minority of tech-savvy users of open source software repositories, and can recognise its contents as a set of simple commands to download and...
Oct 19th
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Eleven Amazing Savants Show the Power of the Human... →
And a glimpse into the technology that may, one day, make savants of the rest of us.
Oct 19th
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Clean, cutting-edge UI design cuts McAfee's... →
A great case study.
Oct 13th
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Computer reads and learns from the internet →
CMU’s NELL computer is scouring the ‘nets, continually learning in a human-like fashion as it processes more information. Let’s just hope it doesn’t come across 4Chan any time soon, or the inevitable enslavement of humanity may well occur to the tune of Rick Astley.
Oct 12th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 7th
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Google Goggles image recognition debuts on iPhone →
And it’s pretty magical.
Oct 6th
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“Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on...”
– U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey
Oct 5th