A “smart” drinking glass embedded with a microchip gathers data on drinker preferences for beverage companies, while the customer is offered perks and promotions in exchange. Roselle Chen reports. Is this cool? … Continue reading Smart glass taps into beer drinker’s data
Frankenbook. So Facebook is becoming its own entity. Will Facebook be the first step into Kurzweil’s singularity? Source: The Real Bias Built In at Facebook – The New York Times Continue reading The Real Bias Built In at Facebook
Trump trumped data research by being Trump. ‘Nuff said. Source: Trump’s Big Win Is a Giant Setback for Data Crunchers | WIRED Continue reading Trump’s Big Win Is a Giant Setback for Data Crunchers
Perhaps you’ll remember when Justine Sacco, a former communications director with IAC, tweeted this: “The internet has a way of taking our evolution-derived instincts and kicking them into hyperdrive. Twitter is like a … Continue reading Science explains why it’s so easy to get sucked into fights on the Internet
Scientists create artificial skin, made from mouse stem cells, that integrates successfully and even sprouts hairs when transplanted into another mouse. So now it’ll behave, look and function like skin. Wondering how … Continue reading Promising lab-grown skin sprouts hair and grows glands
Sepúlveda says he was offered several political jobs in Spain, which he says he turned down because he was too busy. On the question of whether the U.S. presidential campaign is being … Continue reading How to Hack an Election
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