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Anton Vorykhalov

Smart Billboards Identify Vehicles to Target Ads | Digital Trends - 0 views

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  • Smart billboards will identify car models and target ads to drivers
  • Some day in the not-too-distant future ads you see on billboards will be there simply because of the make, model, and year of the vehicle you’re driving. Smart data storage company Cloudian and Japanese advertising company Dentsu are launching just such a program in Japan this fall, as reported by CNN Money.
  • Cloudian and Dentsu tested smart billboard vehicle recognition earlier this year with impressive results. Combining big data and deep learning, the test identified vehicles in traffic correctly 94 percent of the time.
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  • Once the system has identified a vehicle, it displays a targeted ad on the LED billboard for as long as five seconds. The choice of ads to be displayed to specific vehicles is determined by the advertisers. For example, people driving a five-year old vehicle might see an ad for a newer model of the same car. Truck drivers might be shown ads for upcoming trucker-friendly stops.
Vladimir Devyatkin

Surviving the Rise of 'Smart Machines,' the Loss of 'Dream Jobs' and '90% Unemployment' - 0 views

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  • Vladimir Devyatkin on 14 Nov 13
     
    Key Issue - How Will Smart Machines Impact Business and IT Function Through the Remainder of This Decade? Digitization Meets the Workforce - Smart Machines Are the Next Major Technology Market Transitional Scenarios - How Smart Machines Will Develop Through 2020 Smart Machines and the Specter of Destructive Creation Societal Crisis Postcrisis, Toward 90% Job Replacement
Olga Bykova

Global Summer School - Educational Programs - IaaC - 1 views

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  • Olga Bykova on 06 Aug 14
     
    IGSS every year incorporates agendas with research and education goals that combines science and technology with architecture and urban planning. Smart Cities, Smart Citizens, Self-Sufficiency, Self-Fabrication, Self-Organization, Self- Design and Self and Collective Intelligence are some of the key words on which the academic agenda of the program focus.
al_semenchenko

Smartypants: the fart-filtering future of underwear | Art and design | The Guardian - 0 views

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shared by al_semenchenko on 20 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • The term “enhancing underwear” might summon images of go-go-gadget pants that help you run faster and jump higher, but it actually refers to a new breed of briefs that promise you a bigger bulge. Push-up bras and “butt-lifters” have long been a staple of women’s lingerie aisles, but genital scaffolding has now spread to menswear. Featured in the V&A exhibition, the “Wonderjock” is the work of Australian company AussieBum and aims to do for men’s bits what the Wonderbra did for women’s busts – hoisting them up and thrusting them out.
  • US army researchers have developed smart underwear, with sensors secreted inside elastic waistbands that track heart rate, body temperature and perspiration, and beam the stats back to a central monitor. This “wear-and-forget” sensory system is also designed for stressful training situations, identifying which soldiers remain more balanced, so they can be picked for the harder missions.
  • Underwear is already a common place for smuggling drugs of the illegal variety, but a recent pharmaceutical innovation could soon make putting pills in your pants a legitimate activity. Swiss textile giant Schoeller has developed a fabric that administers drugs to the surface of your skin over time, and thinks the best place to put it is in your undies – as those are the garments you’re least likely to forget to put on.
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  • A more practical innovation comes from British manufacturer Shreddies, which has developed flatulence-filtering underwear, allowing you to “fart with confidence”. Their magic farty pants incorporate a layer of Zorflex, a microporous carbon-based material more commonly used in chemical warfare.
Maria Gurova

Google: The new GE: Google, everywhere | The Economist - 0 views

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Google Technology big data collection internet of things robotics human tracking smart home

shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Its latest purchase is Nest Labs, a maker of sophisticated thermostats and smoke detectors: on January 13th Google said it would pay $3.2 billion in cash for the firm. Google’s biggest move into hardware so far is its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility
  • With Google’s collection of hardware businesses, the common factor is data: gathering and crunching them, to make physical devices more intelligent.
  • Packed with sensors and software that can, say, detect that the house is empty and turn down the heating, Nest’s connected thermostats generate plenty of data, which the firm captures.
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  • This month Samsung announced a new smart-home computing platform that will let people control washing machines, televisions and other devices it makes from a single app. Microsoft, Apple and Amazon were also tipped to take a lead there, but Google was until now seen as something of a laggard.
  • it is likely to do what it did with driverless cars: take a technology financed by military contracts and adapt it for the consumer market.
Vladimir Devyatkin

Новые проблемы «умных» домов - 0 views

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  • Vladimir Devyatkin on 14 Nov 13
     
    эксперты по безопасности Дэвид Брайан (David Bryan) и Дэниэль Кроули (Daniel Crowley) из фирмы Trustwave Holdings весьма озабочены появлением такого удобного устройства. По их мнению, оно предоставляет компьютерно грамотным злоумышленникам прекрасные возможности для проникновения в чужие дома. Дело в том, что, испытывая с точки зрения безопасности различные устройства, позиционируемые как «smart», интеллектуальные системы освещения или смышлёную сантехнику, почти во всех обнаружили серьёзные недостатки с точки зрения безопасности…
Maria Gurova

FiLIP Smartwatch Helps Parents Track Their Child's Location [VIDEO] - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 04 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Parents can program up to five numbers into the gadget, which kids can call with the touch of a button.
  • The FiLIP's simple interface only includes two buttons, one of which is bright red. In case of emergency, the child can hold down the red button, prompting the watch to call the first person in its contact list.
  • Maria Gurova on 04 Dec 13
     
    First smart watch designed for kids
Maria Gurova

New era of self-driving cars will transform cities - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • it will certainly transform our daily routines: imagine driving hands-free while having the luxury of reading a book, taking a nap, or guiltlessly texting on the road. At the same time, something far more interesting - and still unexplored - is the potential transformation of our cities themselves
  • blurring the distinction between private and public modes of transportation. "Your" car could give you a lift to work in the morning and then, rather than sitting idle in a parking lot, give a lift to someone else in your family - or, for that matter, to anyone else in your neighbourhood, social media circles, or city.
  • This implies a city in which everyone can travel on demand with just one-fifth of the number of cars in use today
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  • Fewer cars may also mean shorter travel times, less congestion, and a smaller environmental impact.
  • Real-time data planning and smart routing are already a reality, and more advances are coming in the wake of "intelligent city" initiatives around the world,
  • Imagine a world without traffic lights, where vehicular flows "magically" pass through one another and avoid collision
  • Traffic accidents, though rarer, would still be a possibility; in fact, they might be one of the main impediments to implementation of autonomous systems, demanding a restructuring of insurance and liability that could sustain armies of lawyers for years to com
  • We are all familiar with viruses crashing our computers, but what if a virus crashes our cars? Resolving these issues is crucial, but none is insurmountable.
al_semenchenko

Can You Teach a Coal Miner to Code? - Backchannel - Medium - 1 views

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  • As America switches from an industrial economy to a digital one, its bluest collar workers are facing the toughest challenge of their lives. Can miners really learn how to code?
  • Say what you will about the long-term environmental effects (Justice, for one, is very pro-coal) but the impact on the area’s one-source economy has been brutal.
  • The Rusty Justice seminar concludes for today. The coders swivel back to their computers, and Michael announces weekend plans to no one in particular: “Looks like I better learn C#.”
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  • What they’re building in its place is all so fragile and new. Parrish is worried even about the effect of U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez coming to shake the coders’ hands, or reporters like me coming to do stories. “We just don’t want all the notoriety to give the false illusion that we developed all the skills.”
  • BitSource would like to hire a second class of coders at the beginning of the new year. He, Parrish, and Hall want to fill up their buildings, create an incubator for entrepreneurs, a makerspace for craftsmen, and, someday, if they play their cards incredibly well, a bonafide Pikeville tech scene. You know, make Bloomberg in his smart suit eat crow for once.
  • al_semenchenko on 22 Nov 15
     
    Due to technoligical advensments many job will become absoulete but workers will be able to learn new professions quickly.
alexbelov

Facebook's Messenger Bot Store could be the most important launch since the App Store |... - 0 views

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  • Today, Facebook Messenger has 800 million monthly active users – more than 100 times the number of iPhone owners when Apple launched the App Store. Messenger’s current active user base exceeds even the total number of iPhones ever sold. Messaging apps now have more active users than social networks.
  • If and when Facebook announces a Bot Store, it will mark the “end of the beginning” of a new era: messaging as a platform. Conversational user interfaces are about to change the way billions of users interact with the world around them.
  • Pavel Durov announced the expansion of the Telegram Bot Store and Ted Livingston staked out Kik’s claim to be the WeChat of the West. By the end of the year, Slack had announced the Slack App Directory, supported by an $80 million fund to fuel the growth of the ecosystem, and Google was rumored to be developing its own chatbots.
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  • 2016 would be “the year of conversational commerce”, but the Messenger bot platform will inevitably extend far beyond commerce.
  • alexbelov on 17 Mar 16
     
    Facebook is developing chatbot platform for its messenger. It will open new opportunities for online businesses, including conversational commerce. Message bots will become new apps and challenge existing industries.
Anna Dubinina

Charging your phone from your jacket - 0 views

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  • of GPS Smart Soles. This is exactly what you think they are -- insoles for your shoes that are GPS-enabled so that you can “keep connected to who matters most.”
  • They were specifically designed for:Seniors suffering from Alzheimer’s/dementiaTeens and young adults with autismAthletes and veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI)Anyone who could potentially wander off and require oversight
  • This is just the beginning. Solar power is the most immediate, efficient green technology option, and your clothes will continue to get "smarter" and serve more functional purposes.
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  • It's not available yet. But scientists are working on textile-based nanotechnology that uses friction to convert mechanical energy from body movements into electricity
  • And before any of my devices demand to be recharged, I can plug them into my solar-powered jacket to recharge them while I'm on the go
  • Innovative companies such as Evolution Wear have come up with a clever way to keep mobile devices charged, using solar panels integrated into the user's jacket
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

The Next Sensor Will Be IN You : The Insideables | LinkedIn - 0 views

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  • Next up will be all kinds of 'devices' that will go in your body. This may be just under your skin, in your eye, swallowed or injected.
Maria Gurova

Google Glass Gets Foursquare, TripIt and OpenTable Apps - 0 views

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  • Google Glass just got a whole lot more useful for travel. The connected headset now has official apps for Foursquare, TripIt and OpenTable.
  • TripIt inserts its trip updates and information in the Google Now cards that already appear on Glass. Your flight status, departure time and gate will all appear on a single card
  • Open Table has its own command: "Okay Glass, make a reservation...." Once you speak those words, a selection of nearby restaurants will appear, ready for you to scroll through
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  • The current version of Google's Field Trip sends you notifications about surrounding points of interest, but the upgrade, released in April, lets you specifically ask what's nearby.
  • Word Lens completes the travel package. The app has been on Glass since last November, but its augmented-reality translation abilities are arguably perfectly suited for smart glasses. With Glass, all you need to do is look at a sign or menu, aim Glass' camera so the text you need translated is in an onscreen rectangle, and the words will change — from, say, Italian to English — before your eyes
Maria Gurova

The Airbnb vs. New York hearing: Lots of yelling, no decisions - 0 views

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  • The City Council's Housing and Buildings Committee heard testimony Tuesday from residents, housing advocates, city officials and companies about the effects of the growing industry on the city.
  • In November 2014, about 15,300 New York City listings were entire homes or apartments representing about 59% of the available listings on the site that month, according to Slee. There were also 9,704 listings for private rooms, and 753 listings for shared rooms. The analysis also showed that 2,764 users were renting out two or more units, which opponents have cited as evidence the service is helping illegal hotels. More than 200 users were renting out five units or more
  • Airbnb is calling for "smart regulation," which it has had success with in cities including Portland, Oregon; San Jose and San Francisco, California; Amsterdam; and Paris. Airbnb collects lodging tax directly from hosts in those cities, and several local governments have passed laws that allow short-term rentals in some form.
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  • Both sides agreed on seemingly only one thing: That a discussion and regulation of short-term rentals in New York City is overdue.
Oleg Batluk

MIT Scientists Create Wireless Device That Allows Us To See Through Walls - 1 views

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shared by Oleg Batluk on 02 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Scientists have created a new device that allows people to see through walls
  • it can "determine where you are, who you are, and even which hand you are moving
  • feature that allows the device to contact emergency services if a family member falls on the floor
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  • operate your lights and TVs, or to adjust your heating by monitoring where you are in the house
  • Oleg Batluk on 02 Nov 15
     
    New device can see through walls to monitor & locate family members positioning and operate home entertainment depending on your location. 
Vladimir Antonov

Soon, Gmail's AI Could Reply to Your Email for You | WIRED - 0 views

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shared by Vladimir Antonov on 05 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • what’s called “deep learning”—a form of artificial intelligence that’s rapidly reinventing a wide range of online services—the company is beefing up its Inbox by Gmail app so that it can analyze the contents of an email and then suggest a few (very brief) responses
  • The idea is that you can rapidly respond to someone while on the go—without having to manually tap a fresh message into your smartphone keyboard.
  • system learns to generate appropriate replies by analyzing scads of email conversations from across Google’s Gmail service
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  • neural network—a vast network of machines that approximates the web of neurons in the human brain—and this neural network analyzes the information in order to “learn” a particular task.
  • Google’s Smart Reply system doesn’t always get things right. But that’s part of the reason the company provides three potential replies to each email—not just one.
  • The system uses what’s called a “long short-term-memory,” or LSTM, neural network. Essentially, this is a neural net that exhibits something akin to human memory. It can “remember” the beginning of an email as it’s parsing the end—and that helps it, on some level, understand this natural language
  • Vladimir Antonov on 05 Nov 15
     
    This technology could be developed further to other areas, to tailored made games for kids for example, that are adopt to each individual gaming style so kids find that games are actually made specially for them what makes their experience really personal and unique.
Maria Gurova

I quantified my baby and wish I could get the time back - 1 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 15 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • It’s part of an experiment to see if technology can help with the daunting and seemingly Sisyphean tasks of a first time parent, to find out why a growing number of people are turning to gadgets to help with one of life's toughest jobs.
  • Attempting to simplify parenthood with gizmos and apps has perversely made it a lot more complicated. And as for peace of mind, forget it.
  • The concept of the “quantified baby” has been around for some time now, and there’s a large and growing market for smart infant products from anxious or diligent or curious new parents.
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  • But does it all help you to be a better father, or mother, or is it all a massive distraction from the serious business of parenting?
  • While tracking proved useful as a reminder of feedings, and gave an objective insight into longer term sleep patterns, there wasn’t much she could do with the info.
  • It's the same problem quantified self devotees have: what to do with all that data. Unless you're a math or data viz wizard and prepared to take it all incredibly seriously, the numbers that consumer gadgets and apps spew out can be pretty meaningless — even more so when you're dealing with an unpredictable baby.
  • The Mimo and the Owlet are just the tip of the emerging infant tracking iceberg.
  • Maria Gurova on 15 Oct 15
     
    does using all the tech can offer to monitor your infant health make you a better parent or ease the toughest job in the world. Based on the article - not really 
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