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Curated News - Wall St. Computers Read the News, and Trade on It - NYTimes.com

April 01, 2012

Math-loving traders are using powerful computers to speed-read news reports, editorials, company Web sites, blog posts and even Twitter messages — and then letting the machines decide what it all means for the markets.

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Curated News - YouTube’s Original UI Designer On Creating Great Tech With People At The Center | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

March 27, 2012

We have to make thoughtful decisions as a society about the types of technology and products we want to build and support. We have the freedom to choose where to put our development resources. It’s not easy, but if we put our mind to it we can create solutions that increase happiness, change the world, and even benefit our economy.

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Curated News - Twitter Data Scientist Takes on McDonald’s Entire Menu, Survives - Technology Review

March 27, 2012

Data science is so new that there are no textbooks on the subject, and no university curricula designed to turn out data scientists. Yet it’s integral to everything from quantitative trading on Wall Street to ad targeting on the web and the optimization of real-world supply chains.

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Curated News - The Disruptive Power of iMessage - NYTimes.com

March 27, 2012

Photos, videos and documents can now be part of computer-to-phone correspondence. Your dialogue can be archived and preserved forever.

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Curated News - Are Smartphones Changing What It Means to be Human? - Boston Magazine - bostonmagazine.com

March 27, 2012

He says the future is in creating a single program that puts in one place all of the personal data that right now is being kept in different devices and apps. Without that, he says, it’s up to the user to make sure all of her various gadgets and programs are accurate, up-to-date, and (er) honest.

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Curated News - Are Smartphones Changing What It Means to be Human? - Boston Magazine - bostonmagazine.com

March 27, 2012

WHEN HENRY FORD FIRST created the Model T, it didn’t have a dash-board. Early drivers had no idea how fast they were going or how much gas was in the tank. We’ve been functioning in much of the same way when it comes to monitoring our health.

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Curated News - Are Smartphones Changing What It Means to be Human? - Boston Magazine - bostonmagazine.com

March 27, 2012

Starting QS was about anticipating that this boom was coming, and wanting to produce a context for intelligence and reflection

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Curated News - Are Smartphones Changing What It Means to be Human? - Boston Magazine - bostonmagazine.com

March 27, 2012

Self-trackers measure, time, and count just about everything they do, keeping track of it all as a way to improve their health and their existence.

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Curated News - Are Smartphones Changing What It Means to be Human? - Boston Magazine - bostonmagazine.com

March 27, 2012

Siri is a “cultural preparation for a kind of intimacy with our machines that will take us to a new level”

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Curated News - And Here’s The Secret Reason Apple Is Crushing Google…

March 26, 2012

Apple, meanwhile, has a product-design and marketing culture, in which “technology” merely serves to support a product’s function and form.

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Math-loving traders are using powerful computers to speed-read news reports, editorials, company Web sites, blog posts and even Twitter messages — and then letting the machines decide what it all means for the markets.

Data science is so new that there are no textbooks on the subject, and no university curricula designed to turn out data scientists. Yet it’s integral to everything from quantitative trading on Wall Street to ad targeting on the web and the optimization of real-world supply chains.

Photos, videos and documents can now be part of computer-to-phone correspondence. Your dialogue can be archived and preserved forever.

He says the future is in creating a single program that puts in one place all of the personal data that right now is being kept in different devices and apps. Without that, he says, it’s up to the user to make sure all of her various gadgets and programs are accurate, up-to-date, and (er) honest.

WHEN HENRY FORD FIRST created the Model T, it didn’t have a dash-board. Early drivers had no idea how fast they were going or how much gas was in the tank. We’ve been functioning in much of the same way when it comes to monitoring our health.

Starting QS was about anticipating that this boom was coming, and wanting to produce a context for intelligence and reflection

Self-trackers measure, time, and count just about everything they do, keeping track of it all as a way to improve their health and their existence.

Siri is a “cultural preparation for a kind of intimacy with our machines that will take us to a new level”

Apple, meanwhile, has a product-design and marketing culture, in which “technology” merely serves to support a product’s function and form.