Category: Ethnographic Methods

  • Remote car starter is a sign of the apocalypse

    (via The Best Daily Deals in Boston North – Meineke Car Care Center – Remote Car Starter and Installation)

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  • Why neuroscience is a load of hype

    Genes, Cells and Brains by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose – review Steven Poole, guardian.co.uk Steven Poole praises a strong exposé of the hype surrounding genetics and neuroscience We have outsourced the job of interpreting ourselves to the modern life sciences. The decoding of the human genome will tell us who we really are, pledged…

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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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  • Pacific Rim: robots battle monsters as usual

    Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ features robots battling giant monsters By Ben Kersey, theverge.com Complete with the familiar tones of Portal’s GLaDOS Hol­ly­wood seems keen to turn 2013 into the year of the sci-fi block­buster, with trail­ers released so far for films such as Obliv­ion and After Earth. The indus­try has yet… RT @verge: Watch…

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  • T-mobile eyes Metro PCS with iPhone 5

    (via Can you say MetroPCS iPhone? T-Mobile sure can — Apple News, Tips and Reviews)</p Related articles MetroPCS recommends amended T-Mobile deal (seattlepi.com) T-Mobile says first day Apple iPhone 5 sales were huge; device sold like “Gangbusters” (phonearena.com) MetroPCS encourages shareholders again to vote for T-Mobile deal (geekwire.com) MetroPCS delays vote after T-Mobile beefs up…

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  • iPhone 5 on cricket

    (via iPhone 5 to debut on Cricket Wireless on Sept. 28 | TechHive) Related articles Cricket’s iPhone 5 play stumbles amid half the predicted demand (slashgear.com) Apple to Release a New A1428 iPhone 5 Starting April 12th With AWS Support! (applios.wordpress.com)

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  • Why the iPod touch is the perfect VOIP soft phone: Freedompop

    FreedomPop Aims to Turn an iPod Touch Into an iPhone, With a 4G Add-On Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Wire­less start-up Free­dom­Pop is announc­ing plans on Tues­day to start sell­ing an add-on that effec­tive­ly gives an iPod touch many of the capa­bil­i­ties of an iPhone. The $99 add-on brings wire­less data capa­bil­i­ties to a third-generat… http://flip.it/lw7Sl Related…

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  • Marketing clouds: here comes machine learning

    Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com The advent of Sales­force Mar­ket­ing Cloud and Adobe Mar­ket­ing Cloud demon­strates the need for enter­pris­es to devel­op new ways of har­ness­ing the vast poten­tial of big data. Yet these mar­ket­ing clouds beg the ques­tion of who will help… RT @allthingsd:…

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  • Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

    Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come Decem­ber 18th, futur­ist extra­or­di­naire Ray Kurzweil will be join­ing Google’s ranks as Direc­tor of Engi­neer­ing to work on projects that involve machine learn­ing and lan­guage pro­cess­ing. Specifics regard­ing those projects, how­ev­… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable…

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  • Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet

      Michael V. Copeland, wired.com Analyst turned VC Mary Meeker sees a lot to be excited about in tech (mobile), and much to be worried about too. http://flip.it/sMiw8 Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet Related articles Disrupt or Die. Are You Working With The Social Agency Of The…

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