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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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……
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…
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,…