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Alone in the Virtual Museum – The New Yorker

September 28, 2014

With #Google’s Cultural Inst., you can walk
“Alone in the Virtual #Museum”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/alone-virtual-museum Yet real visits rising (>6M to Met in ’13)

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/home

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…gazing at our laptops, will discourage people from actually going to these institutions. This is flatly untrue. Museum attendance is on the rise, dramatically so. The Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, currently hosts 9.3 million visitors annually, and, as the Art Newspaper reported in July, it expects a thirty-per-cent increase, to twelve million a year, by 2025. In second and third place are the British Museum, with 6.7 million visitors a year, and the Met, with 6.2, and the rest of the globe is catching up fast.

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Alone in the Virtual Museum – The New Yorker

September 22, 2014

With #Google’s Cultural Inst., can walk
“Alone in the Virtual #Museum”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/alone-virtual-museum Yet real visits on rising (>6M to Met last yr)

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…gazing at our laptops, will discourage people from actually going to these institutions. This is flatly untrue. Museum attendance is on the rise, dramatically so. The Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, currently hosts 9.3 million visitors annually, and, as the Art Newspaper reported in July, it expects a thirty-per-cent increase, to twelve million a year, by 2025. In second and third place are the British Museum, with 6.7 million visitors a year, and the Met, with 6.2, and the rest of the globe is catching up fast.

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They’re Watching You at Work

September 21, 2014

They’re Watching You at Work http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/12/theyre-watching-you-at-work/354681 Will HR analytics be a corporate big brother or personal coach? #Datamining & #Privacy

DrinkMate Is A Tiny, Plug-In Breathalyzer For Android Devices | TechCrunch

September 20, 2014

DrinkMate Is A Tiny, Plug-In #Breathalyzer For Android Devices http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/30/drinkmate What’s next: metabolomics for the iphone?

An Inside Look at Anonymous, the Radical Hacking Collective

September 19, 2014

An Inside Look at Anonymous, the Radical #Hacking Collective http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/08/masked-avengers Doxing & DDoSing, aggression for a new century

AliveCor

September 15, 2014

http://www.alivecor.com/home

Here, Ansel! Sit, Avedon!

September 14, 2014

Here, Ansel! Sit, Avedon!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/garden/here-ansel-sit-avedon.html (Also, cowcam.ch) #Gopro #Lifelogging for cats. Next: fitbit & calorie-counting for dogs?

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Last week, GoPro, a camera company made famous by surfers and other athletes who clip on its waterproof miniature Heros to record their adventures, introduced its own version: Fetch, a harness and camera mount designed for dogs. For years, pet owners had been rigging Heros to attach to their pets; perhaps you’ve seen the YouTube video of that surfing pig? …. As programmable digital cameras get smaller and cheaper, the universe of pet, uh, journalism — or is it fine art? — has exploded. Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have been using these technologies to learn more about the habits of all manner of animals, including house cats. The work of Leo, a cat from
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, has been made into a poster…. A collaborative (what else to call them?) of Swiss cows posts their oeuvre at cowcam.ch.

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“Note And Vote”: How Google Ventures Avoids Groupthink In Meetings

September 6, 2014

Note & Vote: How #Google… Avoids Groupthink In Meetings, by @jakek
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034772/innovation-by-design/note-and-vote-how-google-ventures-avoids-groupthink-in-meetings But what if meeting is for learning, not voting

Edward Snowden: The Untold Story | Threat Level | WIRED

September 5, 2014

#Snowden: The Untold Story http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden Describes MonsterMind, which auto-retaliates against cyberattacks, raising ethical issues

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The massive surveillance effort was bad enough, but Snowden was even more disturbed to discover a new, Strangelovian cyberwarfare program in the works, codenamed MonsterMind. The program, disclosed here for the first time, would automate the process of hunting for the beginnings of a foreign cyberattack…. When it detected an attack, MonsterMind would automatically block it from entering the country—a “kill” in cyber terminology.

Programs like this had existed for decades, but MonsterMind software would add a unique new capability: Instead of simply detecting and killing the malware at the point of entry, MonsterMind would automatically fire back, with no human involvement. That’s a problem, Snowden says, because the initial attacks are often routed through computers in innocent third countries. “These attacks can be spoofed,” he says. “You could have someone sitting in China, for example, making it appear that one of these attacks is originating in Russia. And then we end up shooting back at a Russian hospital. What happens next?” “}}

Sony announces iPhone-compatible QX30 camera lens with 30x zoom, QX1 with swappable E-Mount

September 4, 2014

http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/03/sony_announces_iphone_compatible_qx30_camera_lens_with_30x_zoom_qx1_with_swappable_e_mount.html [usefulcameracomparison,camera,iphone]