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Who Made That Earbud?
From the mind of Ray Bradbury to the depths of your messenger bag.
Who Made That Earbud?
Google releases Hangouts plugin for Microsoft Outlook
Google may not want to give Windows Phone access to Google Apps, but they do want Outlook users to take care of business. A Hangouts plugin has been released for Outlook. From Outlook’s Mail or Calendar, users can have a Hangout without the need to switch over to another service.
This is a big win for Chrome OS devices. If business users were using Outlook, they would be out of luck. But now Hangouts is available as a plugin and the mess is gone. So video chatting is as seamless as ever for Outlook and Hangouts users alike.
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Google releases Hangouts plugin for Microsoft Outlook
The Beauty Of The Subway
One day while waiting for the 6 train at the Bleecker stop, I began to notice the intricate details of the carefully placed tiles in the station sign. Which led me to noticing other station signs and how they were all different, infused with the personality of the neighborhood. I decided that I wanted to share this with others by creating an online gallery of subway stations in NYC, starting with Manhattan.
The Beauty Of The Subway
A Scientific Analysis Of Facebook Jokers
Recent research from Dartmouth on how and why people make doctor jokes on Facebook that “elicit electronic laughs.”
A Scientific Analysis Of Facebook Jokers
Can This App Update Busking For The Bitcoin Era?
Developers Justin Womersley and Simon de la Rouviere have developed a platform called Cheers, that’s designed to let fans throw virtual coins in a tip jar for their favorite musicians, regardless of whether the artists have already set up a mechanism to accept cryptocurrency payments.
Can This App Update Busking For The Bitcoin Era?
Americans Back Death Penalty By Gas Or Electrocution If No Needle
A badly botched lethal injection in Oklahoma has not chipped away at the American public's support of the death penalty, although two-thirds of voters would back alternatives to the needle, an exclusive NBC News poll shows.
Americans Back Death Penalty By Gas Or Electrocution If No Needle
20 Nerdy Swimsuits to Surf Something Other Than the Web
Not all nerds want to hide away in their basements this summer. While video games, air conditioned movie theaters and Netflix marathons have their perks, there are still plenty who are dying to have some fun in the sun.
Before you pack up your beach towel and head to the beach, you need the perfect swimwear to show everyone just how cultured you really are. Whether you're taking a walk on the beach as Artoo or surfing some waves like Batman, you have to let your nerd flag fly.
See also: 21 Neckties for Every Type of Nerd
It's time to get out of the house and enjoy the sunshine. You don't have to compromise your loyalty to the fandom to do it. Just remember to bring sunscreen. Read more...
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Scientists Discover the 'Biggest Dinosaur Ever'
Step aside, Argentinosaurus. There's a new dino in town — and he's ginormous.
Paleontologists in Argentina unearthed what they believe to be the 95- to 100-million-year-old fossils of the "biggest dinosaur ever," according to the BBC
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Based on its thigh bones, the massive prehistoric creature was 130 feet long, 65 feet tall and weighed an estimated 85 tons (77 metric tons) — that's as heavy as 14 African elephants
"Given the size of these bones, which surpass any of the previously known giant animals, the new dinosaur is the largest animal known that walked on Earth," the scientists told the BBC. Read more...
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Alex Trebek Rapping '90s Hip-Hop for $1200, Please
Jeopardy may have just unleashed its greatest category ever.
Alex Trebek went from game-show host to hip-hop MC in a recent episode when he quizzed contestants on their '90s rap knowledge
The nostalgic lineup started strong, with Trebek busting out a line from "Insane in the Membrane" by Cypress Hill
Veteran contestant Ken Jennings was brought back on the show for a special "Battle of the Decades" series. The longtime Jeopardy champ was on a roll, until the straight-faced host stumped all three players with a line from the Beastie Boys. Come on, y'all — it's "Sabotage." Read more...
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75 reasons to come to DataBeat on Monday & Tuesday
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VentureBeat’s DataBeat event is coming up on Monday and Tuesday in San Francisco, and we’ve got the strongest lineup of data-focused execs, analysts, investors, entrepreneurs, and data scientists ever assembled in one room.
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See our 75 speaker lineup below, and make sure to grab your tickets today. There are only a few left!
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75 reasons to come to DataBeat on Monday & Tuesday
Driverless cars are cool, but the network layer that will run them is even cooler
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Google has shown us that autonomous, driverless cars are now a reality, at least from a technological perspective. These vehicles are capable of reacting to unforeseen disruptions such as jaywalkers, roving bicyclists, or slowing traffic.
It is exciting and scary to think of the world ten years from now replete with these technological advancements. Our world will need to adjust.
Consider the air, where unmanned aerial vehicles or drones are already being used – and where a fierce battle is being waged between the FAA and prospective and current drone users. Concerns around safety, security, and more are all part of the huge debate in one of the more controlled environments we have: our airspace.
If this is what is happening in aviation, can you imagine what will happen when “autobots” hit our streets?
The environment of ground transportation is much larger and more dynamic than aviation, yet it has significantly fewer (if any) regulations in place. Drivers can go anywhere using any route they chose. Travel plans are not known in advance; and speed, while supposedly controlled by rules of the road, is often unpredictable and inconsistent.
All this causes near-collisions every day with licensed and trained humans behind the wheel. Imagine what will happen when we throw driverless vehicles into the mix. This is a highly complex dynamic network that requires real-time tools to manage it in order to be safe and efficient.
To do this, there are two layers of the network that should be addressed, combining both safety and efficiency.
The first layer is the individual vehicles themselves. Google is doing a phenomenal job addressing this layer.
The second layer is what I will call the network layer — the fleets of unmanned vehicles in aggregate. If we plan and execute the network layer correctly and in an adaptive fashion, we will actually need fewer vehicles (human-driven or driverless) to meet the demands of our day-to-day lives, whether that entails deliveries or public transportation.
And with fewer vehicles on the road, there is less of a safety risk at the individual vehicle level and the added benefit of less traffic, congestion, and waste. The ripple effects of this can, of course, be extended to a price reduction for deliveries and public transportation, etc.
This network needs to be structured yet rapidly adoptable and adaptable to meet the needs of the public, from both transportation and safety aspects.
It is one thing for a single vehicle to sense a jaywalker and apply the brakes. It is another for the network to adapt itself in real-time to the butterfly effect of that car braking: the other cars braking; the human-driven car tailgating and not braking in time and colliding into the autonomous vehicle in front of it; the traffic jam created due to this incident; the ensuing delays; the delivery company needing to adjust its plans to meet its same-day delivery commitments; and the public transport authority needing to get the commuters to work on time.
As we move steadily and surely into an on-demand world, one which blends human and artifcially intelligent resources, we must think beyond a single resource, a single delivery or bus route.
Using already available big data to streamline operations in real time is a highly effective way to manage a constantly changing environment, all while using the vehicles to the best of their capabilities.
Optimizing real-time data streamed in from the vehicles can make responding and adjusting their usage in the real world possible, and it can give the public and regulators some of the comfort needed as we explore the possibilities.
Roei Ganzarski is President and CEO of BoldIQ, which provides real-time optimization software in dynamic complex industries such as transportation and aerospace.
Driverless cars are cool, but the network layer that will run them is even cooler
Yahoo Likely To Slip Below 10 Percent Search Share Next Month
When comScore releases its “May 2014 U.S. Search Engine Rankings,” we’re likely to see Yahoo’s market share slip below 10 percent. Today (in April) it recorded a 10 percent share, down 0.1 percent from March. Microsoft’s share was up 0.1 percent and so was...
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Yahoo Likely To Slip Below 10 Percent Search Share Next Month
Baidu Hires Andrew Ng, Google’s Lead “Brain”
Chinese search giant Baidu has stolen away the head of Google’s “deep learning” project, dubbed “Google Brain.” Andrew Ng is an artificial intelligence expert, Stanford professor and founder of online learning company Coursera. Google Brain is a machine learning...
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Baidu Hires Andrew Ng, Google’s Lead “Brain”
Fusion Names Director of Social Media
Most exciting bit: @margafret has promised to do actual reporting with her social media team, not just linking to other people's work— Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) May 16, 2014
Fusion announced the hiring of Margarita Noriega today, who will join the network as director of social media. She was most recently the digital editor and blogger at American Public Media and before that worked at Reuters as editor in charge of live events.
Fusion has been beefing up its digital and social media teams recently, showing the network’s increased attention to harnessing the power of different social platforms.
“Millennials were born into a new era of technology, and have come of age during the rise of Facebook and Twitter,” said Fusion’s chief digital officer Daniel Eilemberg in an email to staff. “I am excited about our growing team… and believe Fusion will capitalize on this extraordinary opportunity to build a media brand finely attuned to this generation’s digital tendencies.”
See Eilemberg’s full memo below:
Hola Fusion,
I am pleased to announce that Margarita Noriega is joining Fusion as our new Director of Social Media.
Margarita is passionate about finding creative, inventive new ways to share high-quality content and encourage others to engage with it. She will play a critical role as she works with the digital team and our various show units to establish and grow our collective social media community moving forward.
As Editor in Charge of Live Events at Reuters, Margarita oversaw the production and editing of all Reuters live blogs, as well as assisting with live events on Reuters mobile sites. Additionally, she helped their newsroom find new, innovative ways of using social media to increase the reach of Reuters content during live events and breaking news. Most recently she has been working at Marketplace with her hands in everything from editorial management to leading their social media strategy and community engagement.
Originally from San Diego, California, Margarita spent more than nine years in Washington, DC, studying International Affairs at George Washington University before building a career in online communications and digital strategy.
Millennials were born into a new era of technology, and have come of age during the rise of Facebook and Twitter. I am excited about our growing team — including you, Hong Qu, Felix Salmon, Mariana Santos, Danilo Lauria, and now Margarita – and believe Fusion will capitalize on this extraordinary opportunity to build a media brand finely attuned to this generation’s digital tendencies.
Margarita will be based in New York and will be visiting us at Newsport in the coming weeks. Please follow her on Twitter @margafret and join me in welcoming her to the team.
Have a great weekend!
Danny
*featured image via @margafret
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Fusion Names Director of Social Media
Google buys developer of featured iPhone app 'Word Lens'
Shortly after the iOS translation app "Word Lens" was featured in a prominent iPhone commercial from Apple, the developer behind the app has been snapped up by rival Google.
Google buys developer of featured iPhone app 'Word Lens'
The Ultimate Entrepreneur’s SEO Checklist for 2014
How can entrepreneurs survive and swim the SEO sharks? Here's some advice and top tips for business leaders looking for the ultimate entrepreneur SEO checklist for 2014, plus how to screen for social media fakes, phonies, and posers.
The Ultimate Entrepreneur’s SEO Checklist for 2014
IBM Marketing VP Adds Color to Big Blue [Video]
There was a time when most IBMers wore uniforms of pin-striped suits, white button-down shirts, rep ties and wing-tipped shoes. Now there’s a lot more color — in speech and dress, thanks to the leadership of executives like Tami Cannizzaro.
Cannizzaro is a vice president of marketing in the industry solutions division at Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM. She embraces social media, thinks of herself as a brand advocate and credits her employees for being smart enough to share appropriate information about themselves and their company.
"I always hear people say ‘I don’t have time for social media.’ What I tell members of my team is that I prefer then to be active advocates for our brand, making sure they are aware of what’s happening in the industry, rather than answer their 200 emails from internal type activity."
"It’s really important, especially for large brands, to use social media to be active and keep their hands on the pulse of what’s happening, especially in marketing. As a marketer, the landscape is changing very, very quickly. It’s important to stay fresh and really understand how to use social, because it’s a very powerful tool."
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IBM Marketing VP Adds Color to Big Blue [Video]
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