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Can I Bribe a Foreign Official? There’s an App for That!
September 14, 2013
Are you looking to see if you or your client committed bribery or violated a foreign anti-corruption law? There are apps for that. Latham & Watkins and O'Melveny & Myers have created apps designed to inform users about anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws. On the heels of Latham & Watkins' July 18 launch of its global anti-bribery and anti-corruption iPhone and iPad app, Kenneth Heaps, Latham's chief technology officer, told Law Technology News on Sept. 12 that the firm expects...
September 14, 2013
Are you looking to see if you or your client committed bribery or violated a foreign anti-corruption law? There are apps for that. Latham & Watkins and O'Melveny & Myers have created apps designed to inform users about anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws. On the heels of Latham & Watkins' July 18 launch of its global anti-bribery and anti-corruption iPhone and iPad app, Kenneth Heaps, Latham's chief technology officer, told Law Technology News on Sept. 12 that the firm expects...
Meet DARPA’s Humanoid Robot That Could Someday Save You From a Crumbling Building
September 14, 2013
Boston Dynamics has been busy working on an entrant for DARPA's Virtual Robotics Challenge, a contest aimed to create robots that can help in disaster situations. Of course, they could also be used by the military... Now, Boston Dynamics has revealed its entrant: A 6-foot-tall humanoid robot called Atlas. Compared to the bumbling, tottering, and slow humanoid robots that have hit the media before, you may be shocked at how resilient Atlas is. The machine has sophistication that approaches...
September 14, 2013
Boston Dynamics has been busy working on an entrant for DARPA's Virtual Robotics Challenge, a contest aimed to create robots that can help in disaster situations. Of course, they could also be used by the military... Now, Boston Dynamics has revealed its entrant: A 6-foot-tall humanoid robot called Atlas. Compared to the bumbling, tottering, and slow humanoid robots that have hit the media before, you may be shocked at how resilient Atlas is. The machine has sophistication that approaches...
Stop Saying Robots Are Destroying Jobs—They Aren’t
September 14, 2013
Many experts would have us believe that robots and other technologies are behind the job drought. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. MIT Technology Review editor David Rotman recently wrote an article called “How Technology is Destroying Jobs.” The title not only sums up the article’s thesis, it sums up the view of many pundits seeking to explain lackluster job growth. But technology never has destroyed jobs on a net basis and it won’t in the future.The article focuses on MIT scholars...
September 14, 2013
Many experts would have us believe that robots and other technologies are behind the job drought. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. MIT Technology Review editor David Rotman recently wrote an article called “How Technology is Destroying Jobs.” The title not only sums up the article’s thesis, it sums up the view of many pundits seeking to explain lackluster job growth. But technology never has destroyed jobs on a net basis and it won’t in the future.The article focuses on MIT scholars...
Samsung Seeks ‘iPod Moment’ With Smartwatch Launch
September 14, 2013
Samsung is set to launch its much anticipated smartwatch on Wednesday, marking a major milestone in the emerging product category amid concerns that the smartphone market has reached its peak. The watch, thought to be called "Galaxy Gear," is expected to be revealed at IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin) - a global innovations show in Berlin - on Wednesday evening. A report in the Korean Times, which cited comments from a senior Samsung executive, boosted hopes of the launch, but event...
September 14, 2013
Samsung is set to launch its much anticipated smartwatch on Wednesday, marking a major milestone in the emerging product category amid concerns that the smartphone market has reached its peak. The watch, thought to be called "Galaxy Gear," is expected to be revealed at IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin) - a global innovations show in Berlin - on Wednesday evening. A report in the Korean Times, which cited comments from a senior Samsung executive, boosted hopes of the launch, but event...
Bring in the Robots
September 12, 2013
Not quite a decade ago, an experienced British Airways captain publicly complained about his airline's orders banning manual thrust control by its Airbus crews in normal flight. Captain Malcolm Scott feared pilots would end up less prepared to fly the aircraft manually. He wrote in a pilots' publication: "This ban is likely to lead to further deskilling and further increase in errors. Without a significant change in the airline's policy, the inevitable response will be a complete ban on manual...
September 12, 2013
Not quite a decade ago, an experienced British Airways captain publicly complained about his airline's orders banning manual thrust control by its Airbus crews in normal flight. Captain Malcolm Scott feared pilots would end up less prepared to fly the aircraft manually. He wrote in a pilots' publication: "This ban is likely to lead to further deskilling and further increase in errors. Without a significant change in the airline's policy, the inevitable response will be a complete ban on manual...
IBM’s Cognitive Computing Software May Serve As Architecture For Brain-Like Computer
September 12, 2013
A computer that works like the human brain? It may not be that far off. IBM cognitive computing researchers are one step closer to making a brain-like computer a reality. The team on Thursday unveiled a "breakthrough software ecosystem" that has the ability to program microchips with architecture based on the human brain. The framework, which includes new programming language and algorithms, is just part of the process that principal investigator Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha hopes will lead...
September 12, 2013
A computer that works like the human brain? It may not be that far off. IBM cognitive computing researchers are one step closer to making a brain-like computer a reality. The team on Thursday unveiled a "breakthrough software ecosystem" that has the ability to program microchips with architecture based on the human brain. The framework, which includes new programming language and algorithms, is just part of the process that principal investigator Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha hopes will lead...
How ‘Tomorrow’s Lawyers’ Are Using Technology Now to Improve Outcomes
September 12, 2013
Remember the runaway bestseller Megatrends in 1983? Author John Naisbitt captivated his audience by identifying 10 themes...
September 12, 2013
Remember the runaway bestseller Megatrends in 1983? Author John Naisbitt captivated his audience by identifying 10 themes...
10 Tips From Plaintiffs’ Lawyers for Cutting Corporate Legal Costs
September 11, 2013
Big law firms love the billable hour. For most corporate firms, the profit model is built on a multiplier of billable hours...
September 11, 2013
Big law firms love the billable hour. For most corporate firms, the profit model is built on a multiplier of billable hours...
To Go from Big Data to Big Insight, Start with a Visual
September 11, 2013
Although data visualization has produced some of the most captivating artistic displays in recent memory, some of which have found their way into exhibits at the New York Museum of Modern Art and countless art installations around the world, business leaders are asking: is data visualization actionable? I think so. In my role as the Scholar-in-Residence at The New York Times R&D Lab, I am collaborating with one of the world's most advanced digital R&D teams to figure out how we can draw...
September 11, 2013
Although data visualization has produced some of the most captivating artistic displays in recent memory, some of which have found their way into exhibits at the New York Museum of Modern Art and countless art installations around the world, business leaders are asking: is data visualization actionable? I think so. In my role as the Scholar-in-Residence at The New York Times R&D Lab, I am collaborating with one of the world's most advanced digital R&D teams to figure out how we can draw...
Steve Ballmer’s Big Lesson for the Rest of Us: Innovation
September 10, 2013
The business media lit up over the weekend with the news that Steve Ballmer, the college friend who worked alongside Bill Gates to build Microsoft and was heir to the CEO job, will step down within a year. Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that. It's worth taking a step...
September 10, 2013
The business media lit up over the weekend with the news that Steve Ballmer, the college friend who worked alongside Bill Gates to build Microsoft and was heir to the CEO job, will step down within a year. Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that. It's worth taking a step...
