Day: May 15, 2014

Engineering Entertainment

How a lost letter delayed the rebuilding of 1 World Trade Center by a year

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Schodt A year into the biggest project of their career, a lost letter made the developers of 1 World Trade Center start from scratch. Vanity Fair has a preview of the new documentary 16 Acres, which chronicles the challenges and conflicts that surrounded the redevelopment of the iconic structure. Months after the cornerstone for 1 World Trade Center had already been laid, security concerns from the New York Police Department halted construction and…

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Business Culture Internet

Comcast Wants To Put Data Caps On All Customers Within 5 Years

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Greg Kumparak About.com CEO Darline Jean Joins Ad Tech Company PulsePoint If you’re a Comcast customer living in one of the many states where they’ve imposed no real limits on bandwidth usage for the last few years… enjoy it while it lasts. During an investor call today (link via Ars), Comcast executive VP David Cohen said that he predicts bandwidth caps (or, as ISPs prefer to put it, “usage-based billing”) to be rolled out…

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Google

Google Glass Aims To Entice Travelers With New TripIt, Foursquare, And OpenTable Integrations

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As reported on TechCrumch. by Anthony Ha NS Raises $35M From Cisco For Its Cloud-Based Enterprise Network Security As A Service A day after Google announced that it will sell Google Glass to anyone in the United States, the company is unveiling some new “Glassware” (basically, Google Glass apps) that’s supposed to be particularly useful for travelers. This isn’t the first travel-related Glassware. The company announced Word Lens for Glass last fall, so if you saw a sign written a…

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Art Culture Design Engineering

Students build a robot arm you control with the wink of an eye

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Want proof that you don’t need big, specialized equipment to produce a mind-controlled robot arm? Just look at a recent University of Toronto student project. Ryan Mintz and crew have created an arm that you control using little more than a brainwave-sensing headset (which is no longer that rare) and a laptop. The team’s software is smart enough to steer the arm using subtle head movements, such as clenching your jaw or…

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Business History Tech

AI algorithm takes seat on investment company’s board

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT The coming robot apocalypse will need robot executives to rule over it, but it looks like they’re going to have to start with more mundane business first. A Hong Kong venture capital firm has just “appointed” an artificial intelligence tool called VITAL to its board of directors to help find promising investments. It’ll scan things like financing, IP and clinical trials from prospective companies, share that info with the board and even cast…

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