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  • Ethnographic documentary filmmaking with a kinect

    How a Kinect hack is turning documentary film on its head By Tom Cheshire, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Decem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… RT @WiredUK: How…

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  • IBM bets on cognitive social science for tech

    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… RT…

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  • Why the iPad shall replace your ugly black television

    The future of television has arrived: it’s called the iPad By Nilay Patel, theverge.com Why owning the second screen is Apple’s game to lose The future of the tele­vi­sion is the iPad. That was the over­whelm­ing mes­sage at the TV of Tomor­row con­fer­ence in New York, which saw exec­u­tives and deci­sion mak­ers from across the……

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  • Transcendence: a new film about AI

    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… http://flip.it/GwUjo Related articles Johnny Depp’s ‘Transcendence’ Adds Paul Bettany, Gets…

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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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  • Apps for iPad that let anyone watch cable channels for free

    History, A&E, and Lifetime Channel apps for iPad let anyone watch current episodes for free By Dante D’Orazio, theverge.com It may con­tin­ue to be a pain for cable sub­scribers to watch tele­vi­sion when mobile, but the sit­u­a­tion should be a bit improved now that apps for the His­to­ry Chan­nel, A&E, and Life­time are avail­able for…

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  • Diabetes prevention goes digital

    NEA-Backed Omada Health Launches Its 16-Week Digital Health Program To Bring Diabetes Prevention Online Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Last Decem­ber, Omada Health raised $800K in seed fund­ing from a host of angel and ven­ture investors, includ­ing NEA, Aber­dare, Kapor Cap­i­tal, Triple­Point Ven­tures and Esther Dyson — to name a few. A grad­u­ate of Rock Health’s first…

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  • Buffer social media turns from websites to mobile streams

    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…

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  • Loccit converts your Facebook media into physical stuff

    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…

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  • Best of Apple App Store 2012

    Apple’s Best Of App Store 2012 Rewards Creativity, Google; Skype And Rovio Take Top App Spots Darrell Etherington, techcrunch.com Apple has released its annu­al “Best Of” fea­ture for the iTunes and App Stores, and this year there are some apps at the top of the list that indi­cate Apple is inter­est­ed in reward­ing apps that…

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  • DIY drone filmmaking replaces expensive Hollywood tech

    Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Skate­board­ers have been tap­ing their tricks with jury-rigged video setups since the advent of cam­corders, but the pro­duc­ers of short and beau­ti­ful video Fire­fly took the next log­i­cal step: using a cam­era mount­ed to a hexa­copte… Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a…

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  • Jeff Dawkins: Big data applied via cognitive science

      Bits Blog: Jeff Hawkins Develops a Brainy Big Data Company By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com Jeff Hawkins got rich and famous as the brains behind Palm, an early power in mobile data. He has also developed a new model of how we think, which will now be used, he says, to revolutionize the data analysis…

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