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Do State Bar Associations Have Antitrust Risk?
July 11, 2015
It was only a matter of time after the Supreme Court’s decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal...
July 11, 2015
It was only a matter of time after the Supreme Court’s decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal...
Internet Research Tips and Resources for Lawyers
July 10, 2015
Internet Research Tips and Resources for Lawyers. We don't do research in books anymore. We don't even use CDs. Today's lawyer, and anyone else who needs information, does it on the Internet. This article highlights some of the better research tips and resources available to lawyers and other researchers. My favorite is the "filetype: pdf" search term to be used on a website. All of the pdf documents available will pop up. Of course, learning to use connectors like the AROUND operator always pulls...
July 10, 2015
Internet Research Tips and Resources for Lawyers. We don't do research in books anymore. We don't even use CDs. Today's lawyer, and anyone else who needs information, does it on the Internet. This article highlights some of the better research tips and resources available to lawyers and other researchers. My favorite is the "filetype: pdf" search term to be used on a website. All of the pdf documents available will pop up. Of course, learning to use connectors like the AROUND operator always pulls...
Thermostats That Testify—Who Knew?
July 10, 2015
Instead of the usual carping about how we’ve lost all our privacy, let’s talk about all of the new data available to the knowledgeable litigator in discovery as a result of this very same loss. I’m going to limit it to data that allow you to physically track someone’s whereabouts—an electronic private investigator, as it were. First, let me paraphrase a newspaper item that caught my eye several years ago: A Contra Costa police detective moonlighting as a private investigator was found...
July 10, 2015
Instead of the usual carping about how we’ve lost all our privacy, let’s talk about all of the new data available to the knowledgeable litigator in discovery as a result of this very same loss. I’m going to limit it to data that allow you to physically track someone’s whereabouts—an electronic private investigator, as it were. First, let me paraphrase a newspaper item that caught my eye several years ago: A Contra Costa police detective moonlighting as a private investigator was found...
Court Declines to Compel Production of Backup Tapes, Active Emails in Native Format
July 9, 2015
United States ex rel. Carter v. Bridgepoint Educ., Inc., 305 F.R.D. 225 (S.D. Cal. 2015) In this case, the court addressed...
July 9, 2015
United States ex rel. Carter v. Bridgepoint Educ., Inc., 305 F.R.D. 225 (S.D. Cal. 2015) In this case, the court addressed...
Deep Down, Law Students Learn Like Cavemen, New Article Says
July 8, 2015
Millennials in law school are really just cavemen with smart phones. Or, more precisely, humans’ brain function and style of learning haven’t changed much over the last 50,000 years, not even for those so-called “digital natives” who have never known a world without computers and the Internet. This seems to be the prevailing theme of law professor James B. Levy’s new paper, “Teaching the Digital Caveman: Rethinking the Use of Classroom Technology in Law School,” published online...
July 8, 2015
Millennials in law school are really just cavemen with smart phones. Or, more precisely, humans’ brain function and style of learning haven’t changed much over the last 50,000 years, not even for those so-called “digital natives” who have never known a world without computers and the Internet. This seems to be the prevailing theme of law professor James B. Levy’s new paper, “Teaching the Digital Caveman: Rethinking the Use of Classroom Technology in Law School,” published online...
Getting To Google Now
July 5, 2015
Google Now project manager Aparna Chennapragada presented a vision for Now in which it not only provides all the information you could possibly need, but also knows when you need it and in what form. That’s always been the logical path forward for Android’s digital assistant. But Now was limited by its ability to draw info primarily from Google services like Gmail and Maps. No longer. Last month, the company announced new integrations with 70 services; at I/O, Chennapragada confirmed the number...
July 5, 2015
Google Now project manager Aparna Chennapragada presented a vision for Now in which it not only provides all the information you could possibly need, but also knows when you need it and in what form. That’s always been the logical path forward for Android’s digital assistant. But Now was limited by its ability to draw info primarily from Google services like Gmail and Maps. No longer. Last month, the company announced new integrations with 70 services; at I/O, Chennapragada confirmed the number...
Virtual Eyes Train Deep Learning Algorithm to Recognize Gaze Direction
July 5, 2015
Gaze estimation is a classic problem of machine vision, which can now be solved by one computer training another. Eye contact is one of the most powerful forms of nonverbal communication. If avatars and robots are ever to exploit it, computer scientists will need to better monitor, understand, and reproduce this behavior. But eye tracking is easier said than done. Perhaps the most promising approach is to train a machine-learning algorithm to recognize gaze direction by studying a large database...
July 5, 2015
Gaze estimation is a classic problem of machine vision, which can now be solved by one computer training another. Eye contact is one of the most powerful forms of nonverbal communication. If avatars and robots are ever to exploit it, computer scientists will need to better monitor, understand, and reproduce this behavior. But eye tracking is easier said than done. Perhaps the most promising approach is to train a machine-learning algorithm to recognize gaze direction by studying a large database...
Real-Time Texting App Lets You Interrupt Without Saying a Word
July 4, 2015
Beam Messenger shows friends what you type as you’re texting, even if you decide to delete it. Normally when you text someone on your smartphone, the recipient can’t tell if the words glowing on their screen were composed off-the-cuff or were carefully planned and edited—depending on the app, the most they’re likely to know is whether you’re typing or not. An app called Beam Messenger changes that by showing users what their conversation partner is writing as they write it, blurring...
July 4, 2015
Beam Messenger shows friends what you type as you’re texting, even if you decide to delete it. Normally when you text someone on your smartphone, the recipient can’t tell if the words glowing on their screen were composed off-the-cuff or were carefully planned and edited—depending on the app, the most they’re likely to know is whether you’re typing or not. An app called Beam Messenger changes that by showing users what their conversation partner is writing as they write it, blurring...
Google Rolls Out New Automated Helpers
July 4, 2015
Users of mobile devices powered by Android are set to get a lot more help from Google’s artificial-intelligence algorithms. Who needs a personality? Not Google’s artificial-intelligence technology. Apple and Microsoft offer virtual personal assistants that answer questions and control phone functions with a combination of smart algorithms and programmed sass. New artificial-intelligence products announced by Google today are faceless by comparison. But they suggest the search company has more...
July 4, 2015
Users of mobile devices powered by Android are set to get a lot more help from Google’s artificial-intelligence algorithms. Who needs a personality? Not Google’s artificial-intelligence technology. Apple and Microsoft offer virtual personal assistants that answer questions and control phone functions with a combination of smart algorithms and programmed sass. New artificial-intelligence products announced by Google today are faceless by comparison. But they suggest the search company has more...
Here’s How Managers Can Be Replaced by Software
July 3, 2015
iCEO illustrates another fact we need to face now: Corporate organizations are themselves a technology, one that has only existed in its current form for around 200 years, a fragment of human history. The corporate structure was created around the tools we had back in the 18th century to maximize scale while minimizing transaction costs. Now that structure is being disrupted by the advent of technologies which can accomplish many (if not most) of the projects we associate with corporations. With...
July 3, 2015
iCEO illustrates another fact we need to face now: Corporate organizations are themselves a technology, one that has only existed in its current form for around 200 years, a fragment of human history. The corporate structure was created around the tools we had back in the 18th century to maximize scale while minimizing transaction costs. Now that structure is being disrupted by the advent of technologies which can accomplish many (if not most) of the projects we associate with corporations. With...
