Resultats BAC 2012

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aidapipic8:

I adore @LisaLeslie sooo much!!

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"In a given day we translate roughly as much text as you’d find in 1 million books. To put it another way: what all the professional human translators in the world produce in a year, our system translates in roughly a single day. By this estimate, most of the translation on the planet is now done by Google Translate."

Google research scientist | Google Now Translates As Much Text in a Day As Human Pros Can in a Year  (via courtenaybird)

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Sherry Turkle’s Chronic Digital Dualism Problem » Cyborgology
by davidbanks,3 days ago at 12:10 pm, thesocietypages.org

Rea­son #15,926 I love the Inter­net: it allows us to bypass our insane lead­ers israelovesiran.com

— allisonkilken­ny (@allisonkilkenny) April 22, 2012

Sher­ry Turkle pub­lished an op-ed in the Opin­ion Pages of the New York Tim…

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secondaryartifacts:

My Impact apps dock for social

futurescope:

 MIT Engineers Design Fog-Free, Water-Repellent, Anti-Glare Glass

A new type of nano-structured glass can bounce water and dirt off its surface, cleaning itself and preventing fogging, according to MIT researchers. It eliminates glare, too, allowing light to penetrate with pure clarity. It could be used for anything from solar panels to future car windshields to new gadget screens. […]

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"skeptic and author of You Are Not a Gadget, hates the idea of Klout. “People’s lives are being run by stupid algorithms more and more,” Lanier says. “The only ones who escape it are the ones who avoid playing the game at all.” Peak outrage was achieved on October"

What Your Klout Score Really Means | Epicenter | Wired.com (via futuristgerd)

"Remember, Al Jazeera can topple authoritarian regimes but cannot get carried by Comcast (and is available in only five places in the U.S.). Why is that? Because Comcast and the other major cable distributors get to decide who wins and who loses, and under what terms. Negotiation isn’t a real option unless the programmer has power or is willing to share a big chunk of its revenues (or both). Now that same construct is coming to the online ecosystem."

Be Very Afraid: The Cable-ization of Online Life Is Upon Us | Epicenter | Wired.com
Good read and definitely worrisome (via futuristgerd)