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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Noisy Channel
Google vs. Bing: A Tweetle Beetle Battle Muddle
Unless you’ve been living in a cone of silence, you’ve probably heard about the epic war of words between Google and Bing. But just in case, here’s a quick summary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Searching With Privacy
Need to protect what you are searching about? Startingpage claims to keep your searches and IP address private. To try it, click here. Though most people don't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whorf on Language
The Whorfian hypothesis (Also called linguistic relativity) came up a number of times as we started to think of product descriptions in many languages. Are translations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Treadmill with a Browser
Nice idea. I have been doing more internet browsing on the equipment of late. Perhaps the speed of the interaction should be proportional to the speed of the...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-05
Affirmative action in procurement for open standards and FLOSS This paper asserts what I have heard from many directions – that government procurement remains closed...
From Putting People First
How video calls are changing our daily life
From deaf people who previously had little use for mobile phones to grandparents wanting to connect with their grandchildren, video calls are changing our lives...
From Putting People First
Core77 book review: Living with Complexity, by Donald Norman
The same Robert Blinn who reviewed Jon Kolko’s new book (see previous post), also wrote a review on Core77 on the latest book by Donald Norman: Living with Complexity...
From Putting People First
Core77 book review: Exposing the Magic of Design, by Jon Kolko
Robert Blinn reviewed Jon Kolko’s new book Exposing the Magic of Design (amazon) for Core77: “Kolko’s book is subtitled “A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and...
From Putting People First
How do you create hybrid interfaces you touch, talk to and poke?
With so many ways to control our interfaces, from touch to voice, what’s the key to designing for them all? Rob Tannen gives his take on things: “Providing a choice...
From Putting People First
Rentalship is the new ownership in the networked age
Wired UK has published an article by David Rowan, that was published last month in his tech column in the UK’s Cond
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating Worst-Case Scenarios
From the work of Joshua M Epstein at Johns Hopkins. We had connected with him on the topic of 'Generative Social Science', based on his book of the same name. ...
From Wild WebMink
? Getting Online Abroad
One of the best travel purchases I have made is an unlocked high-speed USB 3G modem. It allows me to get broadband-speed internet access for the duration of each...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Reducing Squid Odor
Research from Japan: "Improvement of 'kurozukuri ika-shiokara' (fermented squid meat with ink) odor with Staphylococcus nepalensis isolated from the fish sauce...
From Schneier on Security
UK Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List
A UK immigration officer decided to get rid of his wife by putting her on the no-fly list, ensuring that she could not return to the UK from abroad. This worked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft Social Media
Kraft ramps up social media in preparation for the Super Bowl.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation in the West
Colleague Sammy Haroon reports on innovation and entrepreneurism in the West.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Skills
I have recently been helping a few people use Linkedin for the first time and have found it complicated to set up the right kind of adaptable presence I think they...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-04
What to Do When You Receive a BSA Audit Letter The very best thing to do is write back and say "you are mistaken, we only use open source software and there is...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorist Targets of Choice
This makes sense. Generally, militants prefer to attack soft targets where there are large groups of people, that are symbolic and recognizable around the world...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson