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Anna Dubinina

Биткоины официально запретят в России | Реклама Маркетинг PR - SOSTAV.RU - 0 views

  • Министерство финансов разработало поправки в закон "О Центральном банке", которые запрещают в России выпуск и оборот криптовалют.
  • Минфин новыми поправками вводит официальный запрет на выпуск и оборот виртуальных валют в России
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Genetics medical care - 0 views

  • The Obama administration has called for a new era of "personalized medicine," which relies on collecting a vast amount of genetic information from American volunteers to bolster the development of genetics-based treatment.
  • . Medical schools did not pay much heed to genetics until relatively recently
  • Studies have also found that most patients don't actually change their behavior for the better once they learn about a genetic predisposition to a disease. But he also argues that primary care physicians shouldn't simply ignore genetics.
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A Snapchat account is helping teens speak up about abuse - 0 views

  • Snap Counsellors, an account on the messaging app, is helping teens speak up about relationship abuse
  • Snapchat’s self-destruct feature makes it ideal for a helpline. All messages get deleted within 10 seconds.
  • It also allows the Stories feature to be used to send out images and videos to encourage victims to come forward.
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  • Snapchat users now view 7 billion video clips per day
  • Although Snap Counsellors is directed toward teens, it receives cases from women too.
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How robots will reshape the economy (based on U.S. example) - 0 views

  • Few doubt that our future — both immediate and long term — will be heavily impacted by robots
  • A pair of Oxford researchers recently estimated that 47 percent of the total U.S. employment is at risk of being eliminated.
  • On the other end of the spectrum, Mercedes announced it is trading out some of its production robots for human labor — the machines could not keep up with the increasing options for customization
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  • robots in the workplace will likely help reverse this trend.
  • The vast majority of automation technology will not outright replace humans; instead, it will simply make their work more efficient.
  • As the global supply chain matured, market pressures drove American companies to offshore their work to other countries that offered inexpensive labor
  • This is not to say that all white-collar workers should enroll in engineering night classes, but knowing how technology works at a base level will make you better at your job 
  • Employers need to actively promote training programs that empower employees to work more effectively with new tech.
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Charging your phone from your jacket - 0 views

  • 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
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Relationships with Robots: Good or Bad for Humans? - 0 views

  • making robots look like humans or cute animals, we may develop emotional affinity toward the machines
  • . This could help promote trust with users—but perhaps also overtrust?
  • Robots are tools, but they are tools that sometimes hold meaning for people that interact with them, or through them, as when robots are teleoperated at a distance
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  • In addition, sometimes robot operators insert a very clear extension of themselves into the robot, much like we see people invest in game avatars
  • I’d also categorize extending a sense of oneself into a robot as a form of attachment.
  • In ten or twenty years, when humanlike and animal-like robots are employed in a more drone-like way from a greater distance, will a similar user self-extension or new human-robot social phenomenon cause any hesitation during human-directed tasks and effect mission outcomes?
  • As AI and robots become more involved in our models of everyday life, I believe there will be a spectrum of emotional responses toward robots depending on their roles (for instance, caregiver, educator, industrial, companion, etc.) and individual user tendencies.
  • A consequence of purposeful design for attachment is that objects of attachment trigger the owner’s emotions in situations like decision making, and so can be agents of persuasion or otherwise effect someone’s actions
  • The bottom line is that these human-AI/robot interactions are transactions and not reciprocal, and therefore probably not healthy for most people to rely on as a long-term means for substituting organic two-way affectionate bonds, or as a surrogate for a human-human shared relationship
  • Is attachment to a robot problematic ethically?
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UberPUPPY - 0 views

  • Uber wants you to “paws whatever you’re doing,” because in honor of this week’s Puppy Bowl, the company is teaming up with Animal Planet, the SF SPCA, Peninsula Humane Society, and Berkeley Humane Society to deliver on-demand puppies to your house to hang out with you for a bit
  • A post on Uber’s blog specified that if you’re selected a “puppy squad and their coaches will come by for a cuddle huddle.”
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Uber's Testing A New Mass Transit Alternative | TechCrunch - 1 views

  • Uber is gearing up to pilot a new ride-sharing service in Seattle called uberHOP, in an attempt to get “more butts into the backseats of fewer cars
  • With uberHOP (pictured above), the app will match you with a driver as well as other people going the same way as you. You’ll receive directions on where to jump into the car, and then get dropped off at a pre-determined spot
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GoEuro Gets $45M To Make Long Distance Trips By Public Transport As Easy As Uber | Tech... - 1 views

  • European travel planner platform GoEuro has today announced a $45 million Series B round, led by Goldman Sachs
  • It’s more fitting to think of GoEuro as a long distance version of another European transportation startup
  • While maintaining its pan-European travel focus, GoEuro does also support worldwide air travel routes
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Контекстную рекламу хочет регулировать государство - 1 views

  • Помимо "навязчивости", Роскомнадзор отмечает недопустимость использования big-data инструментов для таргетинга рекламных сообщений.
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Looking at supersonic airliners - 0 views

  • The latest new concept design is called Skreemr, which -- if developed -- supposedly would carry 75 passengers from London to New York in 30 minutes
  • unlike rockets, scramjet engines would burn oxygen from the atmosphere instead of having to carry heavy tanks full of oxygen
  • A hybrid rocket and jet engine is being developed by Reaction Engines with joint funding by the UK and BAE Systems, which could one day lead to a new supersonic airliner
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  • Aerion is developing a $110 million, 12-passenger business jet capable of hitting Mach 1.6 -- or close to 2,000 kilometers per hour
  • Expected delivery of this new supersonic plane: 2022.
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How Packaging Influences The Way We Taste Food - 2 views

  • Their research suggests that the whoosh-ing sound of a can opening may make a drink seem fizzier, for example, or that the yellow hue of 7Up can make the soda taste more lemon-y.
  • new version of Cadbury's chocolate bar was similarly rejected by consumers when the company changed the classic rectangular chunks to curved segments. The chocolate bar was made exactly the same way that it always has been, but a big change in the way it looked made people think that it tasted drastically different
  • He's also working with a cancer hospital to experiment with the ways that plating, lighting and sound could counter the metallic taste and nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy.
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    How does Disney taste?
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Bentley подбирает авто по выражению лиц покупателей - 0 views

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    Bentley Inspirator анализирует эмоции покупателя, которые он испытывает во время специального фильма, а также с помощью камеры следит за мимическими изменениями лица человека. Затем, исходя из результатов, программа предлагает цвет, конфигурацию автомобиля, подходящие именно для данного покупателя.
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Google Reveals Its New "RankBrain" Artificial Intelligence System - 1 views

  • RankBrain helps Google decipher the approximately 15% of phrases that the search engine has not encountered before, Bloomberg reports.
  • Google has just gone public with the details of a new artificial intelligence called RankBrain, which the search giant is using to handle difficult queries.
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    Google is training a new artificial intelligence product on its search engine's most difficult queries
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This Mini, Portable Wind Turbine Could Charge Your Phone Or Power Your House - 2 views

  • The largest size (2500 watt) could provide enough power for a small house (though would obviously need backing up). The 1000 is good for RVs and boat owners, the Agustssons say, while the smallest 50 watt one is right for USB devices and laptops. The turbines can also back up electric cars when the grid isn't available.
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    Mini, Portable Wind Turbine Could Charge Your Phone Or Power Your House
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