How play can make you more innovative and productive at work
At first glance, the MIT programmers may have looked like just a bunch of gamers goofing off, as they fired spaceship torpedoes in a video game they built. (more…)
Category Archives: Technology
Think and Stop, before you start playing with other people’s ‘sex lives’
The penalty is very high, $140 million. Gawker media has to pay to celebrity wrestler Hulk Hogan for publishing (in 2012) a short clip from sex-tape involving Hogan and his friend’s wife. The incident occurred in 2006 and was taped without Hogan’s konwledge by the then husband of Heather Clem, the woman in the affair. Her (then) husband is a radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge. (more…)
Patrick ‘Duffy’ De Armas: Bridging cultures with art inspired by hot rods and drag racers
Growing up in Phoenix, Patrick “Duffy” De Armas hung out at car shows, worked in a hot rod shop and drove a thunderous Chevy truck he lowered, cut up and amped for sound and speed. He loved big, loud, fast machines. But how did a boy from the desert who lived for jet boats and muscle cars become a rising artist changing Seattle’s landscape? (more…)
IBM Lab-on-a-Chip Breakthrough Aims to Help Physicians Detect Cancer and Diseases at the Nanoscale
IBM scientists will collaborate with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to test on prostate cancer
Yorktown Heights, N.Y. – 01 Aug 2016: IBM scientists have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technology that can, for the first time, separate biological particles at the nanoscale and could help enable physicians to detect diseases such as cancer before symptoms appear. (more…)
IBM Intensifies Fight Against Zika
Shares cloud and analytics technology and expertise with science and public health community
ARMONK, NY – 27 Jul 2016: IBM today announced that it is committing powerful resources, technology and pro bono expertise to help scientists, the public health community, and humanitarian agencies in the fight against the Zika virus. As part of its IBM Impact Grant programs, IBM is providing technology and talent to Brazil’s Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), a research institution affiliated with the Brazilian Ministry of Health and one the most prominent science and technology health institution in Latin America. Fiocruz plans to help track the spread of Zika by using technology developed by IBM to analyze clues ranging from anecdotal observations recorded by the general public on social media, to official data about human travel patterns. (more…)
Where is my Tom & Jerry?
Yahoo is unlucky. Even the smartest and youngest CEO and a Google veteran Marissa Mayer could not save it. She was hired in 2012 with the sole purpose to bring Yahoo to a powerful position to compete with the search giant Google and social media Facebook. But far away from achieving any success, the company is now on its way to ‘non-existence’. The ‘doomsday’ just arrived. Yesterday telephone company Verizon acquired Yahoo’s operating business for approximately $4.83 billion in cash. (more…)
Last year’s Imagine Cup winners look to launch a fashion business, share an artistic game and take the world to outer space
Juliana Pirani got her first sewing machine at age 13. Growing up in São Paulo, Brazil, she was interested in fashion but never envisioned the possibility of what she is about to do with it now: Start her own business with a creative idea that she hopes will transform many people’s lives. (more…)
Artificial intelligence framework developed by UCLA professor now powers Toyota websites
Adnan Darwiche’s invention helps consumers customize their vehicles online
An innovation in artificial intelligence that was described in a 2001 paper by a UCLA computer science professor has found a somewhat unexpected application: helping car buyers customize their vehicles online. (more…)