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  • Twelve south: Put your Mac book at eye level, live longer

    Twelve South introduces HiRise for MacBook stand, shipping now for $70 Darren Murph, engadget.com Hot on the heels of its HiRise for iMac release, the Mac-only acces­so­ry maker known as Twelve South is out­ing a sim­i­lar riser for Mac­Book prod­ucts. Engi­neered to hoist Mac­Books from 11 to 15 inch­es up off of one’s table, the…

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  • Samsung patents voice recognition for emotional state

    Samsung patent ties emotional states to virtual faces through voice, shows when we’re cracking up Jon Fingas, engadget.com Voice recog­ni­tion usu­al­ly applies to com­mu­ni­ca­tion only in the most util­i­tar­i­an sense, whether it’s to trans­late on the spot or to keep those hands on the wheel while send­ing a text mes­sage. Sam­sung has just been grant­ed…

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  • Medium attempts to be a better source of information

    Medium wants people to eat their ‘information vegetables’ by Donna Tam, cnet.com Obvi­ous CEO and Twit­ter co-founder Evan Williams says his new project is about cre­at­ing con­tent that focus­es on qual­i­ty over speed. SAN FRAN­CIS­CO — Evan Williams, Twit­ter co-founder and CEO of Obvi­ous, wants to change the wor… http://flpbd.it/fk1nt Related articles Biz Stone Working…

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  • Why your body is the next target for social technology

    Smart Body, Smart World: The Next Phase of Personal Computing Sarah Rotman Epps, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, allthingsd.com In the past half-century, com­put­ing has evolved from the main­frame to the desk­top to the shoul­der bag to the pock­et, and now it’s tak­ing over new fron­tiers: our phys­i­cal bod­ies, and the phys­i­cal envi­ron­ments that we inhab­it.…

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  • Sokanu uses science to find out what you’re good at

    Sokanu Says Science Can Help You Find Your Dream Job Eric Johnson, allthingsd.com Why do you work where you do and are you happy there? If the answer is “no” for the sec­ond ques­tion, Spencer Thomp­son has a new answer for the first. Thomp­son, 21, is the CEO of Vancouver-based Sokanu, which offi­cial­ly launch­es this…

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  • New York Magazine captures post Sandy NY

    New York Magazine Captures the Look of Post-Sandy New York Arik Hesseldahl, allthingsd.com To the list of New York insti­tu­tions that saw their oper­a­tions dis­rupt­ed by the Super­storm known as Sandy last week, add New York Mag­a­zine. With offices on Var­ick and Canal Streets, it is sit­u­at­ed right at the bor­der­line between t… http://flpbd.it/Den3G Related…

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  • New Jersey’s trial by fire of electronic voting

    Security Researchers Warn New Jersey’s Emergency Email Voting Could Be An Insecure, Illegal Nightmare Andy Greenberg, forbes.com New Jer­sey’s deci­sion to allow vot­ers strand­ed by super­storm Sandy to vote by email in Tues­day’s elec­tion may be an inno­v­a­tive exper­i­men­tal response to a badly-timed nat­ur­al dis­as­ter. But secu­ri­ty researchers are warn­ing that t… http://flpbd.it/7DWj0 Related articles…

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  • Do not believe the marketing about fancy HDMI cables

    Still more reasons why all HDMI cable are the same by Geoffrey Morrison, cnet.com Peo­ple still have ques­tions about HDMI. Here are more answers. Even after two arti­cles, and a tremen­dous amount of page hits, there still seems to be lots of ques­tions about HDMI cables. I cred­it this to the com­plex­i­ty of the top……

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  • Why Pharma conferences need to be about what patients really need

    Let Patients Create- A Rally Call Jon Gwillim, eyeforpharma.com Précis: There’s an old say­ing; “if you want some­thing done prop­er­ly, do it your­self”. My back­ground is as a con­fer­ence researcher and organ­is­er – for phar­ma, with phar­ma. I focused on dig­i­tal oppor­tu­ni­ties, case-studies and… http://flpbd.it/CdnZ6 Related articles ePharma Summit Top 5 (portal.lillycoi.com) Bad Pharma Audiobook…

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  • After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting

    After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting Arik Hesseldahl, allthingsd.com Hold­ing an elec­tion is com­pli­cat­ed. Hold­ing an elec­tion eight days after a his­tor­i­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant dis­as­ter? Prob­a­bly expo­nen­tial­ly so. This is the cir­cum­stance in which the state of New Jer­sey will find itself… http://flpbd.it/WCGB4 Related articles Christie to personally call out…

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  • Createspace and the best tools for publishing an ebook

    CreateSpace, Smashwords and Author Solutions Dominate Self-Publishing Market | Bowker theindependentpublishingmagazine.com Bowk­er Press Release: Self-Publishing Sees Triple-Digit Growth in Just Five Years, Says Bowk­er® Cre­ate­Space, Smash­words and Author Solu­tions dom­i­nate infra­struc­ture land­scape New Prov­i­dence, NJ – Octo­ber… http://flpbd.it/aqbXh Related articles 12 Basic Steps to Publishing through Create Space (megaphonesociety.wordpress.com) Formatting Your Ebook (ashleyfarley.net) Amazon &…

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  • Chris Jordan’s Portraits of American Mass Consumption

    Chris Jordan’s Portraits of American Mass Consumption Kaushik, amusingplanet.com Amer­i­can pho­tog­ra­ph­er Chris Jor­dan using large-scale works depict the mag­ni­tude of our con­sumerism and its impact on our envi­ron­ment. Like Edward Bur­tyn­sky, Jor­dan uses large scale pho­tographs to depict scenes of infra­struc­ture a… http://flpbd.it/3sGTD Related articles Midway – A film by Chris Jordan (vinodkumartiwari.wordpress.com) Our Earth,…

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