July 2012
29 posts
How to Transition Your Business to the Cloud →
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“Now let’s look at servces where the users provide all the value. Wikipedia,...”
– A VC: In Defense Of Free (via bijan)
WatchVideo: Robot avatar controlled by thought.
While it’s a long way from the movie Avatar, this is one of the first demonstrations ever of a human remotely operating a robot, using thought control alone.
The person controlling the robot lay in an MRI in Israel, where changes in blood flow to areas in the motor cortex were analysed to be able to distinguish when the subject was thinking about...
“The rise of the online-only brand marks a new generation of e-commerce. For...”
– Death to Retail: The Rise of the Online-Only Brand
“The hotel, which describes itself as a “techie pioneer”, has already...”
– Read the rest 2 Springwise
WHAT IS THE HIGGS BOSON? →
discoverynews:
The Higgs is the last missing piece of the Standard Model, the theory that describes the basic building blocks of the universe. The other 11 particles predicted by the model have been found and finding the Higgs would validate the model. Ruling it out or finding something more exotic would force a rethink on how the universe is put together.
Scientists believe that in the first...
The iPad Mini →
Apparently, size matters.
parislemon:
Peter Burrows and Adam Satariano for Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. plans to debut a smaller, cheaper iPad by year-end, two people with knowledge of the plans said, to help maintain dominance of the tablet market as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. prepare competing handheld devices.
The new model will have a screen that’s 7 inches to 8 inches diagonally, less...
“Today we stand at the Information Age’s frontier: the Hybrid Age. The Hybrid Age...”
– The Hybrid Age – new TED book by technologist futurists Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna explores our co-evolution with technology.
“We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium...”
– Jill Tarter, Director of SETI
