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a pres­ent overwhelmed by the not-always-intended effects of the technological world we’d created.

—Andrew Blum, ‘Children of the Drone’ (2013)

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By 2020 over 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. By 2030, virtually every item of value will become traceable with tiny electronic sensors, known as smart dust, manufactured into them.

—FuturistSpeaker.com – A Study of Future Trends and Predictions by Futurist Thomas Frey » Blog Archive » The End of Theft (via futuristgerd)

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futurescope:

TED2013: Raffaello D’Andrea - The astounding athletic power of quadcopters

In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D’Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D’Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together — and watch out for an I-want-this-now demo of Kinect-controlled quads. Roboticist Raffaello D’Andrea explores the possibilities of autonomous technology by collaborating with artists, architects and engineers. 

[TED Talks] [Raffaello D’Andrea] 

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Apple now holds about 20 percent of the U.S. ebook market, director Keith Moerer said in court Tuesday… Most estimates had placed Apple’s U.S. ebook market share at around 10 percent, with Amazon’s Kindle at 50 to 60 percent and Barnes & Noble’s Nook at 25 percent. But Moerer said the iBookstore’s market share was 20 percent in the first few months after the iBookstore’s launch, Publishers Weekly reports, and is about 20 percent now. (If this is true, the other retailers’ market shares would need to be adjusted downward, since Google and Kobo likely hold 1 to 2 percent of the U.S. ebook market.) From PW:

—Apple: We have 20 percent of the U.S. ebook market — paidContent (via interestingsnippets)

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wiredinsider:

There’s nothing quite like that “just out of the box” feeling and getting your hands on a brand-new smartphone or tablet, right? Except for one problem, once your fingers start swiping away, they leave smudges and prints. Now you’re obviously not going to start wearing…

Happy? Sad? A startup called Beyond Verbal has developed technology that can understand how you’re feeling just by listening to your voice.

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