Category: Linguistic Search

IBM bets on cognitive social science for tech

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

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…

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Benchmarking cloud sync and storage

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

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

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science

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 rab­bit’s foot that you bring wit…

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The Evernote clipping obsession

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

The Verge at work: backing up your brain
By Thomas Houston, theverge.com

How I use Evernote as a memory tool for deep reading, writing, and research

The Verge at Work is a series about process. We’re not sci­en­tists, and we’re not gurus, we’re just try­ing to get some work done. The solu­tions pre­sent­ed here ar…

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Netflix is a good place to see how fast your Internet service is

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Netflix launches monthly ISP speed rankings, praises Google Fiber, and calls out AT&T
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

Net­flix is wide­ly acknowl­edged to make up a large chunk of down­stream inter­net traf­fic, and the com­pa­ny is now using that posi­tion to start chart­ing how fast ISPs can stream movies to cus­tomers. Every month, it’s announced, it will post…

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Transcendence: a new film about AI

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Johnny Depp assumes the role of artificial intelligence in new sci-fi flick ‘Transcendence’
By Kimber Streams, theverge.com

John­ny Depp will play a sci­en­tist whose con­scious­ness is uploaded to a super­com­put­er in the upcom­ing sci­ence fic­tion film Tran­scen­dence, TheWrap reports. Incep­tion direc­tor Christo­pher Nolan is exec­u­tive…

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Alfred workflow creation tool

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata
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Alfreds (Photo credit: Thomas Hawk)

Upcoming Alfred 2.0 app adding Workflows, a simple visual tool for creating strings of actions
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

Ver­sion 2 of pop­u­lar OS X launch­er app Alfred was announced last week, and we’re now see­ing one of the big­ger new fea­tures that’s set to come with it. Called Work­flows, it’s a set of trig­gers, actions, inputs, and out­puts that can be…

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Adobe finally gives up on desktop software, embraces the creative cloud

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

With 326K Paid Of 1M Total Members, Adobe Adds Teams To Creative Cloud, Subscriber-Exclusive Updates To Photoshop CS6
Darrell Etherington, techcrunch.com

Adobe is host­ing an event today to show off some new updates it’s mak­ing for its Cre­ative Cloud offer­ings, but here’s an advance look: The ser­vice is get­ting a num­ber of exclu­sive updates that seem clear­ly designed to paint it as the upgr…

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Buffer social media turns from websites to mobile streams

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

With Over 400,000 Users, Social Media Manager Buffer Gets A Refresh On Web & Mobile, Moves Away From Being A Destination Site
Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com

Buffer, the social media man­ag­er that allows you to sched­ule posts to Twit­ter, Face­book and LinkedIn, is today launch­ing a redesign of its ser­vice on both web and mobile. The updates, six months in devel­op­ment, are meant to increase focus…

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Loccit converts your Facebook media into physical stuff

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

UK Startup Loccit Sells 8k Facebook ‘Memory Books’ In 48 Hours, Wants To Turn Your Digital Media Footprint Into Physical Stuff
Natasha Lomas, techcrunch.com

There’s a cot­tage indus­try of star­tups that want to sell your social net­work­ing con­tent back to you in a new form, such as Past­Book and Mem­olane. Loc­c­it, a UK-based ecom­merce start­up which launched this sum­mer after a spell in beta, i…

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Artist visualizes his life online

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

BigPic: Two And A Half Years Of Computer Use In One Incredible Image
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

A map of when artist Marcin Ignac used his computer, when he didn’t, and what he was seeing

For a project titled Every Day of My Life, artist/programmer/designer Marcin Ignac used soft­ware to track, mea­sure, and visu­al­ize his com­put­er use…

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Visualizing aging via web app stimulates financial literacy

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

People save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly.

Did you know that if you see an age-enhanced ver­sion of your­self, you’re more like­ly to save extr…

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