Infinite storage in the cloud
Bitcasa has created a new cloud service that promises “infinite storage” in the cloud for Windows and Mac. Once you install Bitcasa it prompts you to choose which of your folders to “cloudify.” Cloudified folders are uploaded to Bitcasa’s cloud right away and get a Bitcasa logo added to the system tray or Finder. Any time [...]
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Evi trumps Siri for general knowledge
Move over Siri, Evi is the new kid in town. It’s no Watson, but Evi, created by True Knowledge, a Cambridge, U.K.-based semantic technology startup, like Siri, can answer questions posed by voice (using Nuance software) in a conversational manner or by typing. But unlike Siri (only available on iPhone 4S), Evi runs on the [...]
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CES 2012 LG’s OLED 55 Inch Best in Class for CES 2012- super-slick design –Coming AT CES 2012- Las Vegas
Could LG’s new 55-inch OLED be the best TV ever?
While building the world’s first 55-inch OLED TV panel is nice, it’s not worth much unless you put an actual TV around it and LG Electronics will 
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Beyond GPS: your phone in 2015
Attention smartphone users: the recent launch of the first two satellites for Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system (GNSS) could make things a lot more interesting in about four years. Galileo will deliver real-time positioning accuracy down to one meter range, compared to 10 meters for GPS, the European Space Agency (ESA) states, and it [...]
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Microsoft offers a glimpse into the future of productivity
Microsoft has posted an awesome new concept video with some ubercool new interfaces that could be here in five to ten years, estimates Kurt DelBene, President, Microsoft Office Division. That sounds a bit conservative. “All of the ideas in the video are based on real technology,” he said. “Some of the capabilities, such as speech [...]
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The Internet, peer-reviewed
It could be one of the most important innovations on the Internet since the browser. Imagine an open-source, crowd-sourced, community-moderated, distributed platform for sentence-level annotation of the Web. In other words, a way to cut through the babble and restore some sanity and trust. That’s the idea behind Hypothes.is. It will work as an overlay on [...]
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Breakthrough: proton-based chips that communicate directly with living things
University of Washington scientists have just crossed another major threshold between humans and machines: they’ve built a transistor that uses protons instead of electrons. Their ultimate goal: create devices that can communicate directly with living things certain biological functions that involve protons — eventually even control them — a “first step toward ‘bionanoprotonics‘.” Yes, there [...]
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Is Sponge Bob destroying kids’ minds — or accelerating their intelligence?
Young children who watch fast-paced, fantastical television shows may become “handicapped” in their readiness for learning, says a new University of Virginia study. U.Va. psychologists tested 4-year-old children immediately after they had watched nine minutes of the popular show “SpongeBob SquarePants” and found that their “executive function” — the ability to pay attention, follow rules, [...]
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teleXLR8 returns, featuring quantum physicist Gildert on ‘Hack the Multiverse!’
This exciting news just in from Giulio Prisco: “teleXLR8 is reopening on Sunday 21 10 a.m. PST with a talk by [experimental quantum physicist/programmer] Suzanne Gildert on Hack the Multiverse!.” The teleXLR8 online talk program is “a telepresence community for cultural acceleration,” as their blog puts it. Translation: an audiovideo seminar — think TED in [...]
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