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Albert Alley 2017-06-12

The steampunk genre gorges on Victorian designs for steam-powered helicopters (yes, there were such things) and the like, with films such as Hugo (2011) and gaming apps such as 80 Days (2014) telescoping the hard business of materials science into the twinkling of a mad professor’s eye.

Always, our imaginations run ahead of our physical abilities.At the same time, science fiction is not at all naive, and almost all of it is about why our dreams of transcendence through technology fail: why the machine goes wrong, or works towards an unforeseen (sometimes catastrophic) end.

Blade Runner (1982) didn’t so much inspire the current deluge of in-yer-face urban advertising as realise our worst nightmares about it.

Short Circuit (1986) knew what was wrong with robotic warfare long before the first Predator aircraft took to the skies.So yes, science fiction enters clad in the motley of costume drama: polished, chromed, complete, not infrequently camp.

This genre takes finery from the prop shop and turns it into something vital – a god, a golem, a puzzle, a prison.

It bites.Sometimes, in this game of “It’s behind you!” less is more.

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Albert Alley 2017-06-12

While Donald Trump flexes his finger-muscles on Twitter, many other business luminaries are a little more circumspect.However, the president's presence on Twitter may be emboldening commentary there from business types, just as it emboldens so many others.

For More You Can Check : Marketing Explainer Video

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Albert Alley 2017-06-10

A number of times your users can become inactive after opening a new account.

A good win-back campaign can capture some of those inactive subscribers and can help you turn them into customers.A win-back campaign is also a sure shot way to increase email open rates as your customers have already given you their permission at one point.

All you need to re-engage your old customers and ultimately drive conversions is a compelling win-back campaign with a personalized subject line and appealing copy.

Win-Back Subject LinesPersonalize your win-back subject lines for higher open rates.

[First Name], We Want You BackWe Miss You [First Name]Where Have You Been [First Name]?Come back to [Company Name]!Did you forget about your [Company Name] account?1.

The email focuses on a single call to action “Create an event” to get the user into action though it does includes few other relevant to help the users understand the service better.

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Albert Alley 2017-06-09

And by that, we mean Google just sold off Boston Dynamics — the company that designs and engineers all those creepy-looking, terrifyingly capable robots.After putting it up for sale in 2016, Japanese tech company Softbank finally purchased Boston Dynamics — along with Schaft, a company that specializes in creating bipedal robots— from Google for an unknown amount.SEE ALSO: Google's plans for their new London HQ are the most epically Google yetNow for those who aren't as familiar with Boston Dynamics' ~advanced~ creations, the company is best known for its BigDog line of four-legged robots — which literally look like big metal dogs — and its Atlas humanoids that resemble large mechanical people wearing massive jetpacks.To put it quite simply, the robots are freaking terrifying.

There are some with six legs that quite frankly look like giant bugs, and this other thing called a SandFlea that leaps across buildings.Basically, Boston Dynamics is bringing sci-fi movies to life, and if you don't believe us, here are seven of the creepiest videos of the company's weird-ass robots to chill you to the bone.Tell me you are not terrified watching this humanoid open the doors of buildings like it's NBD, walking through the woods, stacking boxes, and jumping unnaturally high jumps.

This is weird as hell and we are not here for it.And be sure to watch until the end to see rare and totally normal footage of a human beating up a robot with a hockey stick.For More Details : Merchandise Promo Video

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Albert Alley 2017-06-12

Confidence in your abilities is usually a good thing – as long as you can recognise when it’s time to ask for help.

As we build ever smarter software, we may want to apply the same thinking to machines.

An experiment that explores a robot’s sense of its own usefulness could help guide how future artificial intelligences are built.Overconfident AI can cause all kinds of problems, says Dylan Hadfield-Menell at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yet by following this remit unquestioningly, they have ended up filling some people’s feeds with fake news.For Hadfield-Menell and his colleagues, the answer is to make AIs that seek and accept human oversight.

“If Facebook had this thinking, we might not have had such a problem with fake news,” he says.Rather than pushing every article it thinks Facebook users want to see, an algorithm that was more uncertain of its abilities would be more likely to defer to a human’s better judgement.Off-switch gameThe Berkeley team designed a mathematical model of an interaction between humans and robots called the “off-switch game” to explore the idea of a computer’s “self-confidence”.In this theoretical game, a robot with an off switch is given a task to do.

A human is then free to press the robot’s off switch whenever they like, but the robot can choose to disable its switch so the person cannot turn it off.Robots given a high degree of “confidence” that what they were doing was useful would never let the human turn it off, because they tried to maximise the time spent doing the task.

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Albert Alley 2017-06-12

Despite turmoil swirling in Washington, Donald Trump’s presidency still enjoys strong support among his base, particularly in white, rural America.

These are the “forgotten men and women” to whom Trump has promised much, the people who feel that recent administrations were too focused on what have become disparagingly known as urban and coastal elites.

VOA reporters recently traveled to a stretch of rural counties along the upper Mississippi River that turned from “blue” to “red” – supporting Democrat Barack Obama, then backing Republican Donald Trump in 2016.

They spoke to farmers and carpenters, factory workers and retirees in these overwhelmingly white, Christian, working and middle class communities, those hoping for change, and those tired of it.

For More You Can Check : Software demo video

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Albert Alley 2017-06-10

The legislation has been opposed by much of the tech industry including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo acting as the “Reform Government Surveillance” alliance.

63% of the respondents said that they supported the changes to surveillance laws to protect the country.

27% of those who supported the proposed legislation had changed their minds as a result of recent terrorist attacks such as the one in Paris.Unfortunately, those surveyed were less convinced that ISPs could be trusted with the job of storing the retained data securely.

They may not be aware of the arguments for, and against, data retention, and certainly have little means of assessing the relative risks of any of the potential pitfalls of storing this type of data.The public’s perceptions of the importance of privacy changes however when it comes to smart home devices known generally as the “Internet of Things”.

Of those people who owned or were planning to buy devices, security concerns resulted in 79% deciding to postpone purchase of devices (24%), be more cautious in their use of the devices (37%) or stop using them altogether (18%).Interestingly, governments are sending very mixed messages when it comes to privacy and security.

When it comes to the Internet of Things, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been very vocal about the importance of protecting the privacy and security of Internet of Things users.

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Albert Alley 2017-06-09

But I'm still left with a lot of questions about where exactly Apple is headed.First, let's make it clear what was actually announced:Metal 2, an expanded version of Apple's Metal graphics API.

Metal 2 now allows developers to bypass the macOS windowing system and render directly to a device — a VR headset, in this case.

This means developers with lower-end iMacs, or even MacBooks, can get good enough GPU performance to play back VR, with some caveats.SteamVR and the HTC Vive now work with the Mac.

Valve has been working with Apple on this since last summer, which shows a high level of technical and business confidence in Apple's VR efforts.Unreal Engine 4 and Unity, the two most popular development environments for games right now, will support Metal 2 VR development on macOS.What's lacking here is any sort of clear story for consumers.

And Apple's splash page description of its VR-ready iMacs is aimed at content makers, not gamers:VR makes its debut on iMac, with the ability to edit 360° video in apps like Final Cut Pro and create cutting-edge 3D VR content.So I see two main possibilities here.

Or Apple has a bigger plan for consumers beyond Metal 2 and external GPUs.There’s something a little wrong with the first option: right now it's almost silly to develop VR using Metal 2.

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Albert Alley 2017-06-12

But it’s fun, a tale of driving stakes into vampire capitalists – the superwealthy who don’t even generate wealth.I’ve always written utopian science fiction.

I wanted to show people coming together in an accidental collective to do good things – financiers, reality stars, Silicon Valley people.

Anyway, dystopia isn’t new: it’s a version of satire, an Ancient Greek form.

I was always a great enemy.Why did you dislike cyberpunk?It was basically saying finance always wins.

Capitalism is the system we have agreed to live by.

It’s a field most universities don’t have any more, and it combines economics and politics with sociology and anthropology.It’s weak now because there’s no money thrown into it so the most sophisticated theorists go into the trivial pursuits of economics rather than deeper questions of political economics.

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Albert Alley 2017-06-12

While Donald Trump flexes his finger-muscles on Twitter, many other business luminaries are a little more circumspect.

However, the president's presence on Twitter may be emboldening commentary there from business types, just as it emboldens so many others.

On Friday, for example, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein took to Twitter to muse: "Just landed from China, trying to catch up.... How did 'infrastructure week' go?

This was surely mockery of the fact that the president's announcement of Infrastructure Week had been rather overshadowed by events such as the congressional testimony in which former FBI director James Comey painted an unflattering picture of the president.

It seems that some senior figures have made a conscious decision to tweak Trump on his most preferred territory: Twitter.

Witness French President Emmanuel Macron openly taunting Trump about climate change on the site.Full story on cnet.com    For More You Can Check : Software overview video

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Albert Alley 2017-06-10

Born and brought up in the family of an IIT Professor, Naveen Tewari began his professional journey with McKinsey and Company as a business analyst.

When in 2007, Naveen, with his three friends started working on InMobi - born as a mobile first company - from a shared apartment in Mumbai, people started calling them ‘boys with powerpoint’.Even today, InMobi continues to be a mobile-only advertising platform.

The first 10 years of mobile advertising model was about ‘mobile natives’ whose business models were gaming, entertainment, cabs etc.

Today, mobile novices and traditional organizations are compelled to enhance their revenue streams by monetizing data, which they haven’t before.InMobi has been a flagship example of India’s explosive start-up growth, and one of the earliest to have taken risky bets back in the day.

In terms of disrupting the status quo, InMobi has gone against the tide right from the word go.

But we survived, thrived and grew despite a whole lot of frowns and thumbs down.”Till now, InMobi has raised more than $200 million from four investors including Sherpalo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Softbank.

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Albert Alley 2017-06-09

GoPro's outspoken CEO Nick Woodman doesn't sugarcoat answers to questions with buzzwords and jargon.During a fireside chat with press at the Mountain Games, Woodman talked at length about a number of topics, touching on his company's upcoming Fusion 360-degree camera, the current state of VR and its future, and dropped a hint for the Hero6.SEE ALSO: GoPro's palm-sized Fusion 360 camera is the equivalent of 6 GoProsThough it doesn't seem that way, GoPro's got a history of releasing new action cameras annually.The Hero HD came out in 2010, HD Hero2 in 2011, Hero3 in 2012, Hero3+ in 2013 and Hero4 in 2014, Hero4 Session in 2015, and Hero5 Black and Hero5 Session in 2016.

There were a bunch of variants in between, but GoPro smartly axed them from the lineup because there were just too many models confusing buyers.The Hero5 released in 2016 brought with it some big changes, including a new waterproof design (no housing required), touchscreen, and voice commands, to name a few notable features.Naturally, even though the Hero5 could probably last through two years before needing a refresh, the high-stakes action camera market forces GoPro to launch new versions, or risk getting undercut by no-name brands.Woodman didn't spoil the Hero6, which will launch sometime by the end of the year (if it's not delayed), but did excitedly say "it'll be bitchin'".

"You all are gonna flip.

Never change!Woodman did hint at an actual feature we should see on the Hero6: better color.

"We're doing a better and better job of getting you better and better color in the camera itself so that's something we improve on all the time," Woodman said.

"Hero6 definitely makes some significant advancements in that area.

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Albert Alley 2017-06-12

THIS paper reports on a pilot study to investigate the useof tangible toolkits for physical computing [45], [22]to support pedagogies of collaboration and production.The focus of the study was learning through the Internetof Things (IoT) [50] about STEM (Science, Technology,Engineering and Maths [2]) in particular computer scienceand engineering.

Thepilot was designed to identify learning indicators of collaborationand production when studying STEM.

The researchinformed the design of effective data analytics and visualisationtools for the PELARS project to advance practicebasedlearning activities in STEM teaching.

However, morespecifically, the findings provided a design structureand insight into knowledge co-construction.

Furthermore,the findings illustrate how the IoT environment facilitatedthis investigation in knowledge construction and boundarycrossing.Design of the IoT environment provided a technologyenhanced learning (TEL) context [35], [36].

Key to the designwas to support the context of (a) collaborative learning as noone person had the knowledge to complete the project alone(b) problem-based learning as no off the shelf solution wasused and (c) multidisciplinary learning by pushing theboundaries across the subjects.The pilot study was conducted over a period of fourmonths working with a group of 15 (year 10) students agedbetween 14 and 15 years.

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Albert Alley 2017-06-12

Goldman Sachs CEO  on Friday poked fun at the Trump administration's plans to focus on infrastructure this week, which were overshadowed by fallout over former FBI Director s dramatic testimony on Capitol Hill.

"Just landed from China, trying to catch up.... How did 'infrastructure week' go?"

For More You Can Check : Fleet Management Software video

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Albert Alley 2017-06-10

Bonnie Spring, PhD, Director of the Center for Behavior and Health in the Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM), predicts the use of wearables in research will explode in the near future.

Spring and her team have used tracking technology for years, since “the age when palm pilots were cutting edge.” Now, nearly 15 years later, Spring is leading several trials using wearable devices and mobile applications to track behaviors.In the Sense2stop study, Spring and her team are using wearable sensors to identify when people are most at risk to indulge in a bad habit, such as smoking.“This is fairly cutting–edge, because we are capitalizing on the fact that people don’t need our help all of the time — they just need it when they are at risk.

The problem is, they don’t know when that is, and neither do we,” says Spring.Spring and her collaborators are also currently testing the impact of a mindfulness intervention during times of stress.

When the patient shows physiological signs of stress, the sensor detects it in real time, and sends an intervention to the person’s mobile phone.

In addition to tracking stress alone, the team is also testing a suite of sensors to track stress signals related to smoking and overeating.In another current trial focused on weight loss, Spring and her group are using a “stepped care” model, a way to deliver and monitor tiered treatments.

A patient steps up to the next treatment tier as determined by the health professional.

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Albert Alley 2017-06-09

I remember it like it was yesterday: Me, shaking a laser printer toner cartridge, as jet-black dust spewed from it all over my boss’s office.It was a disaster.

The young programmer claimed last week on Reddit that he accidentally blew away his company’s production database.

It was his first day on the job, and the documentation he was handed to help him set up his own development environment included credentials for the production database.

There was also the threat of legal action.Virtually everyone who responded in the Reddit thread acknowledged Cscareerthrowaway567’s dumb error, but also, put the blame for the whole fiasco squarely on the shoulders of the company—and that CTO, for putting those credentials in the documentation and for not having adequate backups.On the one hand, obviously.

A toner storm isn't the same as a code error that results in lost thousands of dollars of lost business.In fact, the difference between a simple mistake made decades ago and one made today in virtually any business is business’s increasing reliance on programming and code, and the razor-thin difference between a solvable error and catastrophe.More and more people will do as cscareerthrowaway567 did, and go directly from the classroom to the product and development environment.

There was, though, a more worrisome finding: More than half the respondents admitted their companies lack formal policies for open source consumption, and only 27% of them “have a formal policy for employee contributions to OSS projects.”We see evidence of this semi-causal approach to code, development, and system management everywhere.

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Albert Alley 2017-06-12

The steampunk genre gorges on Victorian designs for steam-powered helicopters (yes, there were such things) and the like, with films such as Hugo (2011) and gaming apps such as 80 Days (2014) telescoping the hard business of materials science into the twinkling of a mad professor’s eye.

Always, our imaginations run ahead of our physical abilities.At the same time, science fiction is not at all naive, and almost all of it is about why our dreams of transcendence through technology fail: why the machine goes wrong, or works towards an unforeseen (sometimes catastrophic) end.

Blade Runner (1982) didn’t so much inspire the current deluge of in-yer-face urban advertising as realise our worst nightmares about it.

Short Circuit (1986) knew what was wrong with robotic warfare long before the first Predator aircraft took to the skies.So yes, science fiction enters clad in the motley of costume drama: polished, chromed, complete, not infrequently camp.

This genre takes finery from the prop shop and turns it into something vital – a god, a golem, a puzzle, a prison.

It bites.Sometimes, in this game of “It’s behind you!” less is more.

Albert Alley 2017-06-12

But it’s fun, a tale of driving stakes into vampire capitalists – the superwealthy who don’t even generate wealth.I’ve always written utopian science fiction.

I wanted to show people coming together in an accidental collective to do good things – financiers, reality stars, Silicon Valley people.

Anyway, dystopia isn’t new: it’s a version of satire, an Ancient Greek form.

I was always a great enemy.Why did you dislike cyberpunk?It was basically saying finance always wins.

Capitalism is the system we have agreed to live by.

It’s a field most universities don’t have any more, and it combines economics and politics with sociology and anthropology.It’s weak now because there’s no money thrown into it so the most sophisticated theorists go into the trivial pursuits of economics rather than deeper questions of political economics.

Albert Alley 2017-06-12

While Donald Trump flexes his finger-muscles on Twitter, many other business luminaries are a little more circumspect.However, the president's presence on Twitter may be emboldening commentary there from business types, just as it emboldens so many others.

For More You Can Check : Marketing Explainer Video

Albert Alley 2017-06-12

While Donald Trump flexes his finger-muscles on Twitter, many other business luminaries are a little more circumspect.

However, the president's presence on Twitter may be emboldening commentary there from business types, just as it emboldens so many others.

On Friday, for example, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein took to Twitter to muse: "Just landed from China, trying to catch up.... How did 'infrastructure week' go?

This was surely mockery of the fact that the president's announcement of Infrastructure Week had been rather overshadowed by events such as the congressional testimony in which former FBI director James Comey painted an unflattering picture of the president.

It seems that some senior figures have made a conscious decision to tweak Trump on his most preferred territory: Twitter.

Witness French President Emmanuel Macron openly taunting Trump about climate change on the site.Full story on cnet.com    For More You Can Check : Software overview video

Albert Alley 2017-06-10

A number of times your users can become inactive after opening a new account.

A good win-back campaign can capture some of those inactive subscribers and can help you turn them into customers.A win-back campaign is also a sure shot way to increase email open rates as your customers have already given you their permission at one point.

All you need to re-engage your old customers and ultimately drive conversions is a compelling win-back campaign with a personalized subject line and appealing copy.

Win-Back Subject LinesPersonalize your win-back subject lines for higher open rates.

[First Name], We Want You BackWe Miss You [First Name]Where Have You Been [First Name]?Come back to [Company Name]!Did you forget about your [Company Name] account?1.

The email focuses on a single call to action “Create an event” to get the user into action though it does includes few other relevant to help the users understand the service better.

Albert Alley 2017-06-10

Born and brought up in the family of an IIT Professor, Naveen Tewari began his professional journey with McKinsey and Company as a business analyst.

When in 2007, Naveen, with his three friends started working on InMobi - born as a mobile first company - from a shared apartment in Mumbai, people started calling them ‘boys with powerpoint’.Even today, InMobi continues to be a mobile-only advertising platform.

The first 10 years of mobile advertising model was about ‘mobile natives’ whose business models were gaming, entertainment, cabs etc.

Today, mobile novices and traditional organizations are compelled to enhance their revenue streams by monetizing data, which they haven’t before.InMobi has been a flagship example of India’s explosive start-up growth, and one of the earliest to have taken risky bets back in the day.

In terms of disrupting the status quo, InMobi has gone against the tide right from the word go.

But we survived, thrived and grew despite a whole lot of frowns and thumbs down.”Till now, InMobi has raised more than $200 million from four investors including Sherpalo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Softbank.

Albert Alley 2017-06-09

And by that, we mean Google just sold off Boston Dynamics — the company that designs and engineers all those creepy-looking, terrifyingly capable robots.After putting it up for sale in 2016, Japanese tech company Softbank finally purchased Boston Dynamics — along with Schaft, a company that specializes in creating bipedal robots— from Google for an unknown amount.SEE ALSO: Google's plans for their new London HQ are the most epically Google yetNow for those who aren't as familiar with Boston Dynamics' ~advanced~ creations, the company is best known for its BigDog line of four-legged robots — which literally look like big metal dogs — and its Atlas humanoids that resemble large mechanical people wearing massive jetpacks.To put it quite simply, the robots are freaking terrifying.

There are some with six legs that quite frankly look like giant bugs, and this other thing called a SandFlea that leaps across buildings.Basically, Boston Dynamics is bringing sci-fi movies to life, and if you don't believe us, here are seven of the creepiest videos of the company's weird-ass robots to chill you to the bone.Tell me you are not terrified watching this humanoid open the doors of buildings like it's NBD, walking through the woods, stacking boxes, and jumping unnaturally high jumps.

This is weird as hell and we are not here for it.And be sure to watch until the end to see rare and totally normal footage of a human beating up a robot with a hockey stick.For More Details : Merchandise Promo Video

Albert Alley 2017-06-09

GoPro's outspoken CEO Nick Woodman doesn't sugarcoat answers to questions with buzzwords and jargon.During a fireside chat with press at the Mountain Games, Woodman talked at length about a number of topics, touching on his company's upcoming Fusion 360-degree camera, the current state of VR and its future, and dropped a hint for the Hero6.SEE ALSO: GoPro's palm-sized Fusion 360 camera is the equivalent of 6 GoProsThough it doesn't seem that way, GoPro's got a history of releasing new action cameras annually.The Hero HD came out in 2010, HD Hero2 in 2011, Hero3 in 2012, Hero3+ in 2013 and Hero4 in 2014, Hero4 Session in 2015, and Hero5 Black and Hero5 Session in 2016.

There were a bunch of variants in between, but GoPro smartly axed them from the lineup because there were just too many models confusing buyers.The Hero5 released in 2016 brought with it some big changes, including a new waterproof design (no housing required), touchscreen, and voice commands, to name a few notable features.Naturally, even though the Hero5 could probably last through two years before needing a refresh, the high-stakes action camera market forces GoPro to launch new versions, or risk getting undercut by no-name brands.Woodman didn't spoil the Hero6, which will launch sometime by the end of the year (if it's not delayed), but did excitedly say "it'll be bitchin'".

"You all are gonna flip.

Never change!Woodman did hint at an actual feature we should see on the Hero6: better color.

"We're doing a better and better job of getting you better and better color in the camera itself so that's something we improve on all the time," Woodman said.

"Hero6 definitely makes some significant advancements in that area.

Albert Alley 2017-06-12

Confidence in your abilities is usually a good thing – as long as you can recognise when it’s time to ask for help.

As we build ever smarter software, we may want to apply the same thinking to machines.

An experiment that explores a robot’s sense of its own usefulness could help guide how future artificial intelligences are built.Overconfident AI can cause all kinds of problems, says Dylan Hadfield-Menell at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yet by following this remit unquestioningly, they have ended up filling some people’s feeds with fake news.For Hadfield-Menell and his colleagues, the answer is to make AIs that seek and accept human oversight.

“If Facebook had this thinking, we might not have had such a problem with fake news,” he says.Rather than pushing every article it thinks Facebook users want to see, an algorithm that was more uncertain of its abilities would be more likely to defer to a human’s better judgement.Off-switch gameThe Berkeley team designed a mathematical model of an interaction between humans and robots called the “off-switch game” to explore the idea of a computer’s “self-confidence”.In this theoretical game, a robot with an off switch is given a task to do.

A human is then free to press the robot’s off switch whenever they like, but the robot can choose to disable its switch so the person cannot turn it off.Robots given a high degree of “confidence” that what they were doing was useful would never let the human turn it off, because they tried to maximise the time spent doing the task.

Albert Alley 2017-06-12

THIS paper reports on a pilot study to investigate the useof tangible toolkits for physical computing [45], [22]to support pedagogies of collaboration and production.The focus of the study was learning through the Internetof Things (IoT) [50] about STEM (Science, Technology,Engineering and Maths [2]) in particular computer scienceand engineering.

Thepilot was designed to identify learning indicators of collaborationand production when studying STEM.

The researchinformed the design of effective data analytics and visualisationtools for the PELARS project to advance practicebasedlearning activities in STEM teaching.

However, morespecifically, the findings provided a design structureand insight into knowledge co-construction.

Furthermore,the findings illustrate how the IoT environment facilitatedthis investigation in knowledge construction and boundarycrossing.Design of the IoT environment provided a technologyenhanced learning (TEL) context [35], [36].

Key to the designwas to support the context of (a) collaborative learning as noone person had the knowledge to complete the project alone(b) problem-based learning as no off the shelf solution wasused and (c) multidisciplinary learning by pushing theboundaries across the subjects.The pilot study was conducted over a period of fourmonths working with a group of 15 (year 10) students agedbetween 14 and 15 years.

Albert Alley 2017-06-12

Despite turmoil swirling in Washington, Donald Trump’s presidency still enjoys strong support among his base, particularly in white, rural America.

These are the “forgotten men and women” to whom Trump has promised much, the people who feel that recent administrations were too focused on what have become disparagingly known as urban and coastal elites.

VOA reporters recently traveled to a stretch of rural counties along the upper Mississippi River that turned from “blue” to “red” – supporting Democrat Barack Obama, then backing Republican Donald Trump in 2016.

They spoke to farmers and carpenters, factory workers and retirees in these overwhelmingly white, Christian, working and middle class communities, those hoping for change, and those tired of it.

For More You Can Check : Software demo video

Albert Alley 2017-06-12

Goldman Sachs CEO  on Friday poked fun at the Trump administration's plans to focus on infrastructure this week, which were overshadowed by fallout over former FBI Director s dramatic testimony on Capitol Hill.

"Just landed from China, trying to catch up.... How did 'infrastructure week' go?"

For More You Can Check : Fleet Management Software video

Albert Alley 2017-06-10

The legislation has been opposed by much of the tech industry including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo acting as the “Reform Government Surveillance” alliance.

63% of the respondents said that they supported the changes to surveillance laws to protect the country.

27% of those who supported the proposed legislation had changed their minds as a result of recent terrorist attacks such as the one in Paris.Unfortunately, those surveyed were less convinced that ISPs could be trusted with the job of storing the retained data securely.

They may not be aware of the arguments for, and against, data retention, and certainly have little means of assessing the relative risks of any of the potential pitfalls of storing this type of data.The public’s perceptions of the importance of privacy changes however when it comes to smart home devices known generally as the “Internet of Things”.

Of those people who owned or were planning to buy devices, security concerns resulted in 79% deciding to postpone purchase of devices (24%), be more cautious in their use of the devices (37%) or stop using them altogether (18%).Interestingly, governments are sending very mixed messages when it comes to privacy and security.

When it comes to the Internet of Things, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been very vocal about the importance of protecting the privacy and security of Internet of Things users.

Albert Alley 2017-06-10

Bonnie Spring, PhD, Director of the Center for Behavior and Health in the Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM), predicts the use of wearables in research will explode in the near future.

Spring and her team have used tracking technology for years, since “the age when palm pilots were cutting edge.” Now, nearly 15 years later, Spring is leading several trials using wearable devices and mobile applications to track behaviors.In the Sense2stop study, Spring and her team are using wearable sensors to identify when people are most at risk to indulge in a bad habit, such as smoking.“This is fairly cutting–edge, because we are capitalizing on the fact that people don’t need our help all of the time — they just need it when they are at risk.

The problem is, they don’t know when that is, and neither do we,” says Spring.Spring and her collaborators are also currently testing the impact of a mindfulness intervention during times of stress.

When the patient shows physiological signs of stress, the sensor detects it in real time, and sends an intervention to the person’s mobile phone.

In addition to tracking stress alone, the team is also testing a suite of sensors to track stress signals related to smoking and overeating.In another current trial focused on weight loss, Spring and her group are using a “stepped care” model, a way to deliver and monitor tiered treatments.

A patient steps up to the next treatment tier as determined by the health professional.

Albert Alley 2017-06-09

But I'm still left with a lot of questions about where exactly Apple is headed.First, let's make it clear what was actually announced:Metal 2, an expanded version of Apple's Metal graphics API.

Metal 2 now allows developers to bypass the macOS windowing system and render directly to a device — a VR headset, in this case.

This means developers with lower-end iMacs, or even MacBooks, can get good enough GPU performance to play back VR, with some caveats.SteamVR and the HTC Vive now work with the Mac.

Valve has been working with Apple on this since last summer, which shows a high level of technical and business confidence in Apple's VR efforts.Unreal Engine 4 and Unity, the two most popular development environments for games right now, will support Metal 2 VR development on macOS.What's lacking here is any sort of clear story for consumers.

And Apple's splash page description of its VR-ready iMacs is aimed at content makers, not gamers:VR makes its debut on iMac, with the ability to edit 360° video in apps like Final Cut Pro and create cutting-edge 3D VR content.So I see two main possibilities here.

Or Apple has a bigger plan for consumers beyond Metal 2 and external GPUs.There’s something a little wrong with the first option: right now it's almost silly to develop VR using Metal 2.

Albert Alley 2017-06-09

I remember it like it was yesterday: Me, shaking a laser printer toner cartridge, as jet-black dust spewed from it all over my boss’s office.It was a disaster.

The young programmer claimed last week on Reddit that he accidentally blew away his company’s production database.

It was his first day on the job, and the documentation he was handed to help him set up his own development environment included credentials for the production database.

There was also the threat of legal action.Virtually everyone who responded in the Reddit thread acknowledged Cscareerthrowaway567’s dumb error, but also, put the blame for the whole fiasco squarely on the shoulders of the company—and that CTO, for putting those credentials in the documentation and for not having adequate backups.On the one hand, obviously.

A toner storm isn't the same as a code error that results in lost thousands of dollars of lost business.In fact, the difference between a simple mistake made decades ago and one made today in virtually any business is business’s increasing reliance on programming and code, and the razor-thin difference between a solvable error and catastrophe.More and more people will do as cscareerthrowaway567 did, and go directly from the classroom to the product and development environment.

There was, though, a more worrisome finding: More than half the respondents admitted their companies lack formal policies for open source consumption, and only 27% of them “have a formal policy for employee contributions to OSS projects.”We see evidence of this semi-causal approach to code, development, and system management everywhere.