Today IBM and ARM (which licenses the designs used in billions of mobile device chips) announced an alliance to stake their claim to this new tech territory. ARM-based chips will be equipped to collect data from the devices they live in and package it securely to send to IBM’s cloud servers for processing.… Read the rest
[Fast Company] Google is no longer just a place to search for news stories; it’s a place to find raw news itself. Among the 432,000 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every day are user clips of important events—from police beatings to political uprisings—that no media crew was around to cover.… Read the rest
[Yahoo Tech] Even if you don’t exactly know what Adobe Flash is, this is important news. Whether you know it or not, odds are pretty high that Adobe Flash is on your computer right now, possibly putting your system and your personal information at risk.… Read the rest
[Fast Company, Photo: Flickr user A Silly Person] My Retina Tracker hooks patients with a big, though long-shot, incentive: By uploading their medical records and answering questionnaires, patients may get the attention of researchers who may be doing clinical trials for treating their disease.… Read the rest
[Fast Company] New Yorker Carlos de Santiago already has a plan to prevent food from going to waste. It doesn’t require a law, and it could even save you money. De Santiago and four colleagues are developing an online service, called BuyMeBy, which allows stores to publish discounts on items that are approaching their expiration date.… Read the rest
How did things go so wrong for a company that had the trust, and money, of some of the most powerful players in the world? The answer, in part, is that nothing is really untraceable on the web, if you look hard enough for it. … Read the rest
[Tom’s Guide] The camera is the pilot. Lily’s real innovation — if it works — is a set of computer-vision algorithms. After it’s tossed in the air, Lily spends about 30 to 60 seconds studying you to memorize what you look like.… Read the rest
[Tom’s Guide] The video streaming-happy data binging we do at home is on a crash course with our budgets once we take it mobile. Verizon’s data plans start at 1GB per month for $60. According to a calculator on rival carrier AT&T’s website, that’s enough for just under 5 hours of streaming video in standard definition or one hour in HD (each consuming 1.08GB).… Read the rest
[Tom’s Guide] Introduced in January and due to go on sale next year, at $400,000, the GT both borrows engine tech from Ford’s mainstream cars and debuts lightweight materials. These, the company expects to trickle down to future economy cars and pickup trucks — possibly indicating that even a carbon-fiber F-150 is a future possibility.… Read the rest
[Tom’s Guide] I had Cablevison’s new Optimum ‘Cord Cutter’ broadband package before it was called that. Even the New York area-based company puts quotation marks around the name of the service. n truth, it’s just a buzzword-bedecked rebrand. [Read the rest of Cablevision ‘Cord Cutter’ Internet Offer Is Mostly Hype]… Read the rest
