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Carey Gersten

Scientists crowdsource atmospheric data from smartphones to improve weather forecasts -... - 0 views

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shared by Carey Gersten on 06 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Carey Gersten on 06 Feb 13
     
    Meteorologists may become better at their jobs thanks to your smartphone. Atmospheric scientists at the University of Washington are collecting data from people using PressureNet, a free app that works on certain Android devices.
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Here's how governments might stalk you via social media | Crave - CNET - 0 views

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shared by Carey Gersten on 11 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Carey Gersten on 11 Feb 13
     
    You might want to watch the video below before you check in, update your status, or snap and share that photo of you at lunch with your smartphone. The Guardian got hold of this 2010 video demonstration from Raytheon, a big-time contractor that also develops things like missile systems for the Department of Defense, which shows an online tracking tool called Rapid Information Overlay Technology, or RIOT.
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The Web Is the Cloud's API | Cloudline | Wired.com - 1 views

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shared by Carey Gersten on 18 May 12 - No Cached
  • Carey Gersten on 18 May 12
     
    Fifteen years later we've made a lot of progress. Many cloud services are now switch-hitters. When a person using a browser asks them to do something, they respond with HTML for humans to read and interact with. When a computer asks - and by computer I mean a smartphone, a desktop PC, or a virtual machine running elsewhere in the cloud - they respond with data for that computer to process.
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