$MSFT Wins Appeals Ruling on Data Searches
http://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-wins-appeals-ruling-on-data-searches-1468511551 Does this mean US citizens storing data offshore escape gov. oversight?
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Microsoft Wins Appeals Ruling on Data Searches – WSJ
July 24, 2016How to Stop Robocalls … or at Least Fight Back – WSJ
July 10, 2016Bitcoin Rival Ethereum Gains Traction – WSJ
July 4, 2016#Bitcoin Rival Ethereum Gains Traction…. but suffers $55m theft due to hacked code. Wow!
http://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-rival-ether-gains-traction-1466461279
Review: Google Keyboard for Android Makes One-Handed Typing Easy – WSJ
July 3, 2016Google Keyboard for Android Makes…Typing Easy
http://www.wsj.com/articles/review-google-keyboard-for-android-makes-one-handed-typing-eas-1462551966 much better than supplied kb; does away w/ address-book autocomplete
What the Science of Touch Says About Us
June 27, 2016Feel Me by @AdamGopnik
http://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/what-the-science-of-touch-says-about-us It’s easier for AI to win at chess than move pieces on the board – cf http://www.NYTimes.com/1997/05/13/opinion/l-how-smart-can-it-be-084328.html
Sensory Studies
MAY 16, 2016 ISSUE
Feel Me
What the new science of touch says about ourselves.
BY ADAM GOPNIK
QT:{{”
““Haptic intelligence is vital to human intelligence,” she concludes. “It’s not just dexterity. It’s finding your way in the world: it’s embodiment, emotion, attack. Haptic intelligence is human
intelligence. We’re just so smart with it that we don’t know it yet. It’s actually much harder to make a chess piece move correctly—to pick up the piece and move it across the board and put it down
properly—than it is to make the right chess move.” She adds, slyly, “When I took A.I. as a student, I was so dismayed to find that most A.I. is just stupid brute force, just running through the
possibilities a machine can look at quickly. Computer chess looks intelligent, but it’s under-the-hood stupid. Reaching and elegantly picking up the right chess piece fluidly and having it land in the right place in an uncontrolled environment—that’s hard. Haptic intelligence is an almost irreproducible miracle! Because people are so good at that, they don’t appreciate it. Machines are good at finding the next move, but moving in the world still baffles them.”” “}}
The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, By Ants
June 18, 2016The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, By Ants
http://priceonomics.com/the-independent-discovery-of-tcpip-by-ants/ Protocol has similarities to #ant communication; man reinventing nature
A Whole New Ball Game – The New Yorker
May 23, 2016A Whole New Ball Game
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/sphero-teaches-kids-to-code Describes the lucky confluence of @sphero robots, #STEM education & @Disney entertainment
Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled – IEEE Spectrum
April 30, 2016#Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others [eg Hurd,
BSD’s Net/2] Fizzled
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/linux-at-25-why-it-flourished-while-others-fizzled Licensing, level of completion, leader
nice graphics of linux growth
A simple way to track your everyday exposure to chemicals | April 18, 2016 Issue – Vol. 94 Issue 16 | Chemical & Engineering News
April 30, 2016Track…everyday exposure to #chemicals
http://CEN.acs.org/articles/94/i16/simple-way-track-everyday-exposure.html Cumulative totals for pesticides, allergens, fragrances &c via Si-wristbands
Helium Dreams – The New Yorker
April 24, 2016Helium Dreams http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/a-new-generation-of-airships-is-born Various engineering tradeoffs as a new generation of #airships tries to displace trucks on some routes
A New Generation of Airships Is Born
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