The future unfolding: Fellows Friday with Skylar Tibbits
Reblogged from TED Blog: Skylar Tibbits makes things that assemble themselves, with potential large-scale applications from self-adjusting water pipes to self-assembling structures in space. At his recently founded Self-Assembly Lab at … Continue reading
An explosion in slow motion: How 2013 blew apart our notions of privacy
Reblogged from Gigaom: 2013 was an extraordinary year for those of us who are interested in privacy and data protection. What was previously seen as the domain of paranoid nitpickers … Continue reading
Awesome new video: A cell phone tool to help micro-entrepreneurs get loans
Reblogged from TED Blog:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_E43zz3hnk&w=547&h=338] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_E43zz3hnk In the developing world, would-be entrepreneurs are easily able to get microloans. But getting access to formal financial institutions — the kind that give large-scale … Continue reading
Jolla announces a new batch of smartphones for European customers
Reblogged from Gigaom: The newly-launched Jolla smartphone, made by a crew of mostly ex-Nokia(s nok) employees, is now available for purchase by people in the EU, Norway and Switzerland through … Continue reading
Yahoo/Siri App Is Actually A Real Prototype Built By Robin Labs But Not Commissioned By Yahoo
Reblogged from TechCrunch: A little earlier we ran a story about a video that showed what appeared to be a Yahoo Siri competitor. “Sources familiar with Yahoo’s internal projects tell … Continue reading
Datameer Raises $19M As Market For Hadoop And Big Data Analytics Hits An Inflection Point
Reblogged from TechCrunch: The data analytics market is starting to boom. Hadoop distributions from big data companies like Cloudera have matured and are becoming more useful as they allow for better … Continue reading
Yahoo Introduces New Style Of Flickr Embeds To Seed Content Outside Of The Site
Reblogged from TechCrunch: Yahoo has introduced a new cleaner style of photo embeds today. Just about everyone has used content from Flickr in various ways at some point, especially from its … Continue reading
