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App Will Let Health Insurer Track Customer Behavior - MIT Technology Review

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:50:43 +0100

App Will Let Health Insurer Track Customer Behavior - MIT Technology Review

China retakes supercomputer crown

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:26:16 +0100

China retakes supercomputer crown http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22936989

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:13:53 +0100

(via Fruit Bowl Detects Mold Before It Grows)

Advanced Manufacturing: The New Industrial Revolution

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:08:54 +0100

Advanced Manufacturing: The New Industrial Revolution: Digital technology is transforming...

Inside Facebook's new arctic data centre

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:37:43 +0100

Inside Facebook's new arctic data centre: You’ve probably never thought about the electricity...

Search giant Google is intending to build huge wireless networks...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:36:17 +0100

Search giant Google is intending to build huge wireless networks across Africa and Asia, using high-altitude balloons and blimps. The company is intending to finance, build and help operate networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, with the aim of connecting around a billion people to the web. To help enable the campaign, Google has been putting together an ecosystem of low-cost smartphones running Android on low-power microprocessors. Rather than traditional infrastructure, Google’s signal will be carried by high-altitude platforms - balloons and blimps - that can transmit to areas of hundreds of square kilometres. Google has also considered using satellites to achieve the same goal. “There’s not going to be one technology that will be the silver bullet,” an unnamed source told the Wall St Journal. A Google spokesperson declined to comment. (via Google blimps will carry wireless signal across Africa (Wired UK))

laughingsquid: British Man Records POV Video as He Climbs a...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:19:59 +0100

laughingsquid:

British Man Records POV Video as He Climbs a Tower Crane

"It would be odd [for the NSA] to focus entirely on telephony logs and exclude Internet traffic,”..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:50:47 +0100

““It would be odd [for the NSA] to focus entirely on telephony logs and exclude Internet...

"Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have skyrocketed. It’s true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying)..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:18:42 +0100

“Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have skyrocketed. It’s true. So the fallout from the (NSA...

ibmsocialbiz: With the Tumblr acquisition, Yahoo! is certainly...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:59:10 +0100

ibmsocialbiz:

With the Tumblr acquisition, Yahoo! is certainly picking up a social media platform with a much younger user profile than its current core user base. Combine this with the addition of new talent from this and other recent acquisitions, Yahoo! seems to be building a core team that will take it into the mobile and social spheres with a core set of services.

(via GlobalWebIndex | What has Yahoo! Actually Acquired: A Snapshot of Tumblr in Q1 2013)

"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:29:42 +0100

“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.” - Albert Einstein (via scienceisbeauty)

laughingsquid: LEGO Maps of the London Underground

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:31:36 +0100

laughingsquid:

LEGO Maps of the London Underground

tedx: Photo spotlight: Images from TEDxTaybeh, a TEDx event in...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:04:00 +0100

tedx:

Photo spotlight: Images from TEDxTaybeh, a TEDx event in Al-Taybeh, Israel.

Al-Taybeh is one of the cities in Israel’s Little Triangle, defined as “a concentration of Israeli Arab towns and villages … located in the eastern Sharon plain among the Samarian foothills.”

The team at TEDxTaybeh expressed excitement at being of one the first events in the Triangle, saying.

In essence, TEDxTaybeh aims at empowering the peripheral communities in the Arab towns and villages [in the Triangle.] It aspires at creating a space for them to engage and participate in forging new ways of thinking. Above all, TEDxTaybeh is an opportunity to inspire the local community from within.

Above, snapshots from the event, including their very interesting take on TED Fellow Candy Chang’s “Before I die…” project.

(Photo credits: Top: ayah_awadi_gallery on Instagram. Others: TEDxTaybah)

smartercities: The Real Reason Cities Are Centers of Innovation...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:32:24 +0100

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The Real Reason Cities Are Centers of Innovation | The Atlantic Cities

It’s obvious from human history that people have long found unique value in living and working in cities, even if for reasons they couldn’t quite articulate. Put people together, and opportunities and ideas and wealth seem to grow at a more powerful rate than a simple sum of all our numbers. This has been intuitively true for centuries of city-dwellers.

“What people didn’t know,” says MIT researcher Wei Pan, “is why.”

What the NSA can do with

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:03:33 +0100

What the NSA can do with : The NSA can’t capture everything that crosses the Internet—but doesn’t...

(via 25 Angry GIFs That Perfectly Express Your Rage)

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:36:04 +0100

(via 25 Angry GIFs That Perfectly Express Your Rage)

BBC News - Man calls Solihull police to complain about prostitute's looks

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:32:03 +0100

BBC News - Man calls Solihull police to complain about prostitute's looks: A man has been warned...

Patch offers needle-free injections

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:37:02 +0100

Patch offers needle-free injections http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22882446

TED debates controls for drones

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:49:23 +0100

TED debates controls for drones http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22863447

This newly advanced prosthetic limb is the result of a...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:20:03 +0100

This newly advanced prosthetic limb is the result of a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins University. The arm has the ability to accurately detect vibration,temperature, contact with objects and degree of pressure. It also has up to 27 degrees of freedom of moment, making it far more than a cosmetic addition.

But the biggest attribute of the arm is its ability to be controlled by thought, the one feature viewed as the last hurdle to truly functional mechanical replacement limbs.