Posts Tagged ‘x57s’

How can Facebook and its users burst the ‘filter bubble’? | New Scientist

December 11, 2016

How can Facebook…burst the filter bubble? https://www.NewScientist.com/article/2113246-how-can-facebook-and-its-users-burst-the-filter-bubble/ How reporting via social networks leads to bias & how to "flip the feed"

The Moth | Stories | Data Mining for Dates

December 6, 2016

https://themoth.org/stories/data-mining-for-dates

Let your loved ones know you’re safe with our new personal safety app

December 5, 2016

https://blog.google/products/maps/let-your-loved-ones-know-youre-safe-our-new-personal-safety-app/

The new MacBook Pro is kind of great for hackers – Medium

November 28, 2016

The new MacBook Pro is…great for hackers
https://medium.com/@ageitgey/the-new-macbook-pro-is-kind-of-great-for-hackers-64c1c577a4d2#.o160nwo05 All open ports (#USBc) w. great potential for tricky charging combos

Inside the Development of Light, the Tiny Digital Camera That Outperforms DSLRs – IEEE Spectrum

November 23, 2016

Light, the Tiny Digital Camera That Outperforms DSLRs
http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/inside-the-development-of-light-the-tiny-digital-camera-that-outperforms-dslrs A multi-lens future made possible by computational photography [cagegory tech]

Review: Is There a Safe Way to Text While Driving? – WSJ

November 12, 2016

Is There a Safe Way to Text While Driving? Probably not but the @NavdyInc w/ headsup display tries to enable this
http://www.wsj.com/articles/review-is-there-a-safe-way-to-text-while-driving-1478107545

Prick up your ears | The Economist

October 15, 2016

Prick up your ears
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21707955-wireless-headphones-and-smart-speakers-herald-new-class-devices-prick-up-your-ears To come for #headphones: layered listening (audio augmented reality), nod detection, assistants

Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours

October 9, 2016

My #Distraction Sickness, & Yours by @sullydish
http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-technology-almost-killed-me.html An issue of the iPhone age; perhaps addressed by a digital Sabbath?

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If the churches came to understand that the greatest threat to faith today is not hedonism but distraction, perhaps they might begin to appeal anew to a frazzled digital generation. Christian leaders seem to think that they need more distraction to counter the distraction. Their services have degenerated into emotional spasms, their spaces drowned with light and noise and locked shut throughout the day, when their darkness and silence might actually draw those whose minds and souls have grown web-weary. But the mysticism of Catholic meditation — of the Rosary, of Benediction, or simple contemplative prayer — is a tradition in search of rediscovery. The monasteries — opened up to more lay visitors — could try to answer to the same needs that the booming yoga movement has increasingly met.

And imagine if more secular places responded in kind: restaurants where smartphones must be surrendered upon entering, or coffee shops that marketed their non-Wi-Fi safe space? Or, more practical: more meals where we agree to put our gadgets in a box while we talk to one another? Or lunch where the first person to use their phone pays the whole bill? We can, if we want, re-create a digital Sabbath each week — just one day in which we live for 24 hours without checking our phones. Or we can simply turn off our notifications. Humans are self-preserving in the long run. For every innovation there is a reaction, and even the starkest of analysts of our new culture, like Sherry Turkle, sees a potential for eventually rebalancing our lives. “}}

Bitcoin 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

Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone – NYTimes.com

July 4, 2016

Obama After Dark
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/us/politics/obama-after-dark-the-precious-hours-alone.html Interesting tidbits: 2a-7a #sleep, quiet time post-dinner, Times on sofa w/ iPad, Fri movie night

quiet time after dinner on sofa or easy chair