Why Cognition-as-a-Service is the next operating system battlefield
Nova Spivack, Bottlenose, gigaom.comThe Semantic Web may have failed, but higher intelligence is coming to applications anyway, in another form: Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS). And this may just be the next evolution of the operating system.
CaaS will enable every app…
Nancy Settle-Murphy, guidedinsights.com
With so many ways to connect virtually, you’d think we’d all be experts by now. In fact, the opposite may be true: Because we have so many choices, finding the best combination of virtual …
10 Tips for Picking the Best Tech Tools for Your Next Virtual Meeting
Lana Winter-Hébert, lifehack.org
Oh, the Brits. No-one can snark quite like they do, and there are certain turns of phrase that are so utterly delightful, the rest of the world really should sit up and take note. Below are just a few common British expressions that you might like…
75 Simple British Slang Expressions You Should Probably Start Using
5 Reasons Why Consumer Collaboration and Big Data Are a Perfect Match
BY Diane Hessan, inc.comData reveals patterns. Once you add consumer insights, you can innovate for the future based on what you know now.
In an article in the Harvard Business Review called “Collaborative Advantage: The Art of Alliances,” my friend…
New MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government Data
fastcodesign.comInnovation By Design
DataViva, a project developed in part by Media Lab professor César Hidalgo, aims to make a wide swath of government economic data usable with a series of visualization apps.
In the four years since the U.S. government…
In The Hospital Of The Future, Big Data Is One Of Your Doctors
fastcoexist.comFrom our genomes to Jawbones, the amount of data about health is exploding. Bringing on top Silicon Valley talent, one NYC hospital is preparing for a future where it can analyze and predict its patients’ health needs—and maybe change our…
Jawbone Tracked Hundreds Of Thousands Of Up Users To Find The Most Sleep-Deprived States
BY REBECCA GREENFIELD, fastcompany.comJawbone anonymized sleep data from Up wearers and discovered some interesting trends about how we as a country snooze. For one, they do it better in Colorado (blame the weed?).
You’d think that people would have some of their most restful nigh…
Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic]
By Kelsey D. Atherton, popsci.comSeveral times a day, human bodies release a stream of data about internal health. Unfortunately, the data comes analog, and so isn’t immediately accessible as useful information. Now an infographic from the Cleveland Clinic off…
Software Scans Journal Papers, Finds 1 In 4 Have Suspicious Images
By Francie Diep, popsci.comItalian biologist Enrico Bucci originally developed his startup’s software to make scientists’ lives easier. The software is a search engine that automatically pulls images from published scientific papers. Say you’re study…
Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm
John Koetsier, venturebeat.comTickets on Sale Now
In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer, and entrepreneur overturn…
White House To Universities: We Need More Data Scientists
BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcompany.comNew York University, University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Washington are launching a $37.8 million project to boost the numbers of American data scientists.
It’s official: America needs more data scientists. This week, a…
New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive
Derrick Harris, gigaom.comResearchers from the University of Helsinki in Finland have developed algorithms they say are the best yet for determining how mobile phone users are getting around town — walking, driving, taking the subway or otherwise — by…
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