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2010 Philippine Automated Election in jeopardy
MANILA, Philippines - The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) are now on the mindset of going back to manual counting if Smartmatic and TIM will not resolve their conflict. The COMELEC has given the two corporations... Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans
The comments at newscientist.com are filled with jokes about Robocop, Terminator and Clone Wars, but absent a successful neo-Luddite revolution, robots and AI are going to continue to evolve in this direction and beyond. I see it as the logical outgrowth of the same...
created by Erik Larson | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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177 views | 14 recommendations | 11 comments
Double Agency: "Monetizing" Illegal Content
It's interesting that Youtube seems to be playing for both teams here: on one hand, doing nothing to discourage the uploading of copyrighted material by non-copyright-holders, and, on the other hand, hosting tools...
created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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190 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
High-Tech Toilets Flushed in Seattle
When you bring in a new tool, there's no telling how your users are going to use it. Case in point: robotic toilets. Pretty straightforward, right?Wrong.Seattle's high-tech and high-priced public toilets were...
created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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338 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
Re-Bicyclable the Plastic Bike
"Matt Clark, he is a young industrial designer from Southern California. He showed me his bicycle creation, the IV-1 (for Innervision 1) : Here is the description of this unique bike: "This bicycle prototype...
created by World_Groove | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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712 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Peter Gabriel Launches Entertainment Aggregator
Recommendation engines, aggregators, filters, selectors, DJs, friends, and algorithms: all are tools to help us find more relevant, cool stuff, by selectively narrowing the infinite entertainment choices available...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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482 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
NASA: ATV ready to dock with ISS: Minute by Minute coverage
NASA: ATV ready to dock with ISS: April 3, 2008Update 10:55 am"TOULOUSE, France, April 3 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency's Jules Verne automated transfer vehicle spacecraft was successfully docked Thursday...
created by Albert Milliron | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
974 views | 24 recommendations | 9 comments
974 views | 24 recommendations | 9 comments
How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques
"We hear the same terms bandied about whenever a popular site gets hacked. You know… SQL Injection, cross site scripting, that kind of thing. But what do these things mean? Is hacking really as inaccessible as many of us imagine; a nefarious, impossibly technical twilight...At NRF, ArcaTech Introduces A “Bank 2.0” Solution :: Symblogogy
"Handling money really is a job and process of its own. One creates and has a successful retail enterprise and then the biggest problem becomes “How do we accurately count and keep what money we take in on our...
created by Edmund Jenks | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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853 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Java War Report: Schultz Returns to Starbucks
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is returning to the company in an attempt to restore the premium coffee chain to its former glory.Since flooding the North American market with more than 10,000 of its cafes,...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
746 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
746 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
Flirtbot: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Russian chatroom denizens are falling afoul of a social-engineering chatbot that, rather than injecting malware into a target system, gets those flawed, flawed humans to divulge their personal info. "A program...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
751 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
751 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Miley-Mania Puts Heat On Ticket Brokers
I think this is a grat move, the ticket brokers that profit thousands off of tickets is out of hand. If the price of a ticket sais $100 , that is how much everyone should have the right to buy it for."Miley-Mania Puts Heat On Ticket Brokers Rep. Dan Gelber To Crackdown On...Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers
"Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers By Tony Capaccio Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers... The Vancouver Underworld
There is a gaping void in Vancouver. No, we're not talking about our basketball team but rather the giant tunnel that is winding its way through the Vancouver Netherworld."
At a length of nearly 19 km, the... Opinion on Libby Sentence Commutation
The pundits will inevitably change these numbers but here is some immediate analysis done on the effect of the Libby affair:"SurveyUSA has a poll of immediate reaction to President Bush's decision to commute the...NowPublic on Facebook
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