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May 19, 2015
Today we’re excited to introduce Instant Articles, a new product for publishers to create fast, interactive articles on Facebook. As...
May 19, 2015
Today we’re excited to introduce Instant Articles, a new product for publishers to create fast, interactive articles on Facebook. As...
Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Coming Soon
May 18, 2015
@USDOT secretary Anthony Foxx (@SecretaryFoxx) announces accelerated timetable for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications; tech also supports vehicle-to-infrastructure comms; aims to reduce accidents, fatalities; DOT hopes for completion of @FCC radio interference testing within yr; Foxx encouraged @NHTSAGov to accelerate its plans: to ensure regulatory framework supports rapid progress, & to ultimately require all new vehicles support V2V I'm proud to announce that DOT is accelerating our timetable...
May 18, 2015
@USDOT secretary Anthony Foxx (@SecretaryFoxx) announces accelerated timetable for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications; tech also supports vehicle-to-infrastructure comms; aims to reduce accidents, fatalities; DOT hopes for completion of @FCC radio interference testing within yr; Foxx encouraged @NHTSAGov to accelerate its plans: to ensure regulatory framework supports rapid progress, & to ultimately require all new vehicles support V2V I'm proud to announce that DOT is accelerating our timetable...
New uscourts.gov Launched
May 18, 2015
The federal Judiciary’s website, uscourts.gov, has a fresh look, improved functionality, and webpages that adjust automatically...
May 18, 2015
The federal Judiciary’s website, uscourts.gov, has a fresh look, improved functionality, and webpages that adjust automatically...
10 Predictions: How IBM’s Watson Will Impact Law
May 17, 2015
IBM CEO: All systems that counted - tabulated results. Programmable systems. Smart phones, current computers. Cognitive Computing. Learns, natural language, unstructured. Augment the decisions we make. The gray area where there is no right and wrong answer. Percent confidence, reasons. Application to law: Analyze evidence against complex legal structure. Here are 10 predictions: Watson is almost certainly the most significant technology ever to come to law, and it will give lawyers...
May 17, 2015
IBM CEO: All systems that counted - tabulated results. Programmable systems. Smart phones, current computers. Cognitive Computing. Learns, natural language, unstructured. Augment the decisions we make. The gray area where there is no right and wrong answer. Percent confidence, reasons. Application to law: Analyze evidence against complex legal structure. Here are 10 predictions: Watson is almost certainly the most significant technology ever to come to law, and it will give lawyers...
World of IBM’s Watson
May 17, 2015
How Cognition Works Watson is built to mirror the same learning process that we have - through the power of cognition. What drives this process is a common cognitive framework that humans use to inform their decisions: Observe, Interpret, Evaluate, and Decide.
May 17, 2015
How Cognition Works Watson is built to mirror the same learning process that we have - through the power of cognition. What drives this process is a common cognitive framework that humans use to inform their decisions: Observe, Interpret, Evaluate, and Decide.
IBM’s Bold Prediction About Artificial Intelligence
May 17, 2015
"In the future, every decision that mankind makes is going to be informed by a cognitive system like Watson," she said, "and our lives will be better for it." Listening in were the crowds of engineers, designers, doctors, bankers, researchers, and reporters that IBM had ferried over to a massive glass-and-steel structure on the banks of the East River in Brooklyn. The occasion was a new event, World of Watson, designed to showcase the "ecosystem" of innovation happening around Watson, IBM's...
May 17, 2015
"In the future, every decision that mankind makes is going to be informed by a cognitive system like Watson," she said, "and our lives will be better for it." Listening in were the crowds of engineers, designers, doctors, bankers, researchers, and reporters that IBM had ferried over to a massive glass-and-steel structure on the banks of the East River in Brooklyn. The occasion was a new event, World of Watson, designed to showcase the "ecosystem" of innovation happening around Watson, IBM's...
The Internet of Things – A Primer
May 16, 2015
By the year 2020, over 26 billion things – cars, coffee machines, even cows – will be connected to the internet. They’re calling this next upgrade to the web ‘The Internet of Things’. But how does it work, and why should you care? Discover the tech & meet the main players in our interactive dataviz tour. » Explore the interactive » Discover our new book Knowledge is Beautiful and the original Information is Beautiful
May 16, 2015
By the year 2020, over 26 billion things – cars, coffee machines, even cows – will be connected to the internet. They’re calling this next upgrade to the web ‘The Internet of Things’. But how does it work, and why should you care? Discover the tech & meet the main players in our interactive dataviz tour. » Explore the interactive » Discover our new book Knowledge is Beautiful and the original Information is Beautiful
USAA Finds Older Adults Adopting New Tech Too
May 16, 2015
About half of USAA customers who have opted to utilize the new biometric features on the company’s mobile banking application are age 35 or older. That comes as a surprise to USAA exeuctive Rick Swenson, who told American Banker that he thought the demographic adopting biometrics — such as the use of fingerprint scans to secure data — would skew more towards millennials. “It’s about half and half with the median age being 35,” he said of the 400,000 USAA customers who have opted...
May 16, 2015
About half of USAA customers who have opted to utilize the new biometric features on the company’s mobile banking application are age 35 or older. That comes as a surprise to USAA exeuctive Rick Swenson, who told American Banker that he thought the demographic adopting biometrics — such as the use of fingerprint scans to secure data — would skew more towards millennials. “It’s about half and half with the median age being 35,” he said of the 400,000 USAA customers who have opted...
Time is on your side—welcoming Timeful to Google
May 16, 2015
With the proliferation of mobile phones and greater access to technology, it should be easy to get things done quickly and effortlessly. That’s why with tools like Gmail, Inbox, Calendar and Docs, we’ve built smart features to help you organize your life and take the work out of work—Inbox makes it easy to get started on your to-do list, Calendar automatically adds events from your Gmail, and Search gives you simple, concise answers about information that’s important to you. But even...
May 16, 2015
With the proliferation of mobile phones and greater access to technology, it should be easy to get things done quickly and effortlessly. That’s why with tools like Gmail, Inbox, Calendar and Docs, we’ve built smart features to help you organize your life and take the work out of work—Inbox makes it easy to get started on your to-do list, Calendar automatically adds events from your Gmail, and Search gives you simple, concise answers about information that’s important to you. But even...
The Revolution Will Be Digitized
May 10, 2015
From the instant he wakes up each morning, through his workday and into the night, the essence of Larry Smarr is captured by a series of numbers: a resting heart rate of 40 beats per minute, a blood pressure of 130/70, a stress level of 2 percent, 191 pounds, 8,000 steps taken, 15 floors climbed, 8 hours of sleep. Smarr, an astrophysicist and computer scientist, could be the world’s most self-measured man. For nearly 15 years, the professor at the University of California at San Diego has been...
May 10, 2015
From the instant he wakes up each morning, through his workday and into the night, the essence of Larry Smarr is captured by a series of numbers: a resting heart rate of 40 beats per minute, a blood pressure of 130/70, a stress level of 2 percent, 191 pounds, 8,000 steps taken, 15 floors climbed, 8 hours of sleep. Smarr, an astrophysicist and computer scientist, could be the world’s most self-measured man. For nearly 15 years, the professor at the University of California at San Diego has been...
