Author: timbatchelder

  • Google ends free Apps for Business service By Sarah Mitroff, wired.co.uk Business I kick myself for not sign­ing up for Google Apps ear­li­er. I want­ed a cus­tom email address using my web­site’s domain name and the eas­i­est option is sign­ing up for a free Google Apps for Busi­ness account. The 7-year-old ser­vice… http://flip.it/c0hiH

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  • The linguistic analysis and prediction of Parkinson’s

    Max Little knows how to detect early symptoms of Parkinson’s. Just call him By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Decem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… RT…

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  • Ethnographic documentary filmmaking with a kinect

    How a Kinect hack is turning documentary film on its head By Tom Cheshire, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Decem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… RT @WiredUK: How…

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  • Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It – NYTimes.com

    Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It – NYTimes.com Related articles With Positions to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection – NYTimes.com (jlphilly47.wordpress.com) Tax Lobby Builds Ties To Max Baucus – NYTimes.com (huffingtonpost.com) Stupid Writer Tricks – NYTimes.com (everythingscrivener.wordpress.com)

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  • IBM bets on cognitive social science for tech

    IBM predicts how future technology will radically augment your senses By Chris Welch, theverge.com IBM today pub­lished its annu­al 5 in 5 report, cit­ing five are­nas of tech­nol­o­gy the com­pa­ny believes will see vast advance­ments over the next five years. This year’s list focus­es on the five human sens­es and how future tech will… RT…

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  • NRA hides under the social media covers

    National Rifle Association disappears from Facebook and stops tweeting in wake of school shooting By T.C. Sottek, theverge.com The Nation­al Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion (NRA) — the largest gun rights advo­ca­cy group and one of the pre­vail­ing lob­by­ing orga­ni­za­tions in the Unit­ed States — has pulled back from its social media pres­ence fol­low­ing the New­town, Con­necti­… RT…

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  • Benchmarking cloud sync and storage

    Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others: a cloud sync storage face-off By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com Does Drive stand a chance against sync and backup veterans? Google’s very own “Loch Ness monster,” also known as Google Drive, has final­ly launched. It’s the new face of Google Doc­u­ments, and it’s also Google’s oft-rumored Dropbox-killer. It……

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  • Lapka turns your iPhone into a biolab

    Lapka for iPhone: five sensors to measure the world, inspired by NASA and Yves Saint Laurent By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com A small Russian hardware startup brings ‘luxury tools’ to your phone Lapka’s tagline may be the “Per­son­al Envi­ron­ment Monitor,” but its name is root­ed in the Russ­ian word for paw. “We want to be the…

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  • ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ is a middling return to Middle-earth By Bryan Bishop, theverge.com Peter Jackson ditches romance and charm for high frame rates and 3D A decade ago, Peter Jack­son pulled off what many thought was impos­si­ble: adapt­ing J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings into an epic big-screen tril­o­gy. The movies… RT…

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