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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
What Your Identity Has to Do With Learning
What happens if one of your identities conflicts with what you're trying to learn in school? For instance, what if you are a creationist Christian learning science...
From Schneier on Security
Doomsday Shelters
Selling fear: The Vivos network, which offers partial ownerships similar to a timeshare in underground shelter communities, is one of several ventures touting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Tracks Omo Boxes
Report in Adage that Unilver will be tracking a small sample of boxes of Omo detergent in Brazil using a GPS device. The Adage headline about 'stalking' is inflammatory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopkick
Another good example of bridging retail and mobile underway:Shopkick bridges the mobile and retail worlds.We are funded by Kleiner Perkins's "iFund" and are the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Choices
Another example of the use of Mobile to engage in-store, note in particular the use of barcode scanning, which is becoming more common. I recently saw severalShopkick...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House OSTP blog cites CCC again
In a recent blog post “Reflections on the NNI
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone and Accessories Blog
A correspondent has set up a blog on new Smartphone developments and accessories.
From Schneier on Security
Hacking ATMs
Hacking ATMs to spit out money, demonstrated at the Black Hat conference: The two systems he hacked on stage were made by Triton and Tranax. The Tranax hack was...
From Wild WebMink
? Competitive Behaviour
Apple Ships More Mobile Phones Than Motorola For The Second Quarter In A Row More a statement of Motorola’s decline that Apple’s advance, but still a significant...
From Putting People First
Genevieve Bell
In 2009, Dr. Genevieve Bell, an Australian-born anthropologist and ethnographer, who is an Intel Fellow and heads Intel’s newly created Interaction and Experience...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
House Passes Bill to Improve Accessibility on the Web
The House recently passed H.R. 3101, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act. Sponsored by Rep. Markey of Massachusetts, the bill seeks to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Seed Accelerator in Cincinnati
New in the heart of the Midwest, by a former colleague, The Brandery:The Brandery opens it doors: New seed accelerator launches in Cincinnati by Dave KnoxToday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart was Wrong to Just Tag Pallets
I just wrote a guest column at one of my favorite retail blogs: Storefrontbacktalk. About how Wal-Mart first tested RFID tags extensively on cases and pallets...
From Computational Complexity
What is the complexity of these problems and metaproblems?
The following problem is from Doctor Eco's Cyberpuzzles. I have shortened and generalized it. We are going to put numbers into boxes. If x,y,z are in a box then...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Acceleration of Addiction
Paul Graham on the acceleration of addiction via technology. Technology gives us more of what we want, so is it accellerating addiction? Pretty clear the answer...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-29
Dell's fraud settlement explodes PC market myths "Intel's rebates amounted to 38 per cent of Dell's operating profit in the fiscal year 2006, and rose to 76 per...
From My Biased Coin
The 2050 Calculator
As regular blog-readers know, I'm a tremendous fan of David MacKay, who has gone from being a leader in the general area of Bayesian inference (author of Information...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities of Smart Electricity Meters
"Who controls the off switch?" by Ross Anderson and Shailendra Fuloria. Abstract: We're about to acquire a significant new cybervulnerability. The world's energy...
From Wild WebMink
? Jailbreaking Decision Is Temporary Relief
While the decision by the US Library of Congress to create exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for jailbreaking iPhones is very welcome, the reaction...
From Apophenia