December 2010
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Telepresence Robot in Action →
Technology Review’s I.T. Editor, Tom Simonite, reviews a Vgo telepresence robot. Simonite is located in TR’s San Francisco office and uses the robot to communicate “face-to-face” with colleagues in Cambridge, Massachusetts.(2.37 video)
Dec 28th
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Telepresence Robot in Action →
Technology Review’s I.T. Editor, Tom Simonite, reviews a Vgo telepresence robot. Simonite is located in TR’s San Francisco office and uses the robot to communicate “face-to-face” with colleagues in Cambridge, Massachusetts.(2.37 video)
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Our latest newsletter is now available →
Our last newsletter for the year is now out you can get it and back issues by going to Emergent Futures Newsletters or clicking on the title of this post
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Lighting-grade LED chip costs to fall to... →
Production cost of lighting-grade LED chips will fall to US$1/500lm in the next 2-3 years, and if that is the case, LED lighting’s market penetration will reach 20-30% in 2012 according MJ Jou, president of Taiwan-based LED chip maker Epistar. Sourced via Lindsay Leveen at greenexplored.com
Dec 19th
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A $525, 2048-core cluster in 45 minutes →
They started setting up the cluster at 1030am and by a 1115 they were maxing out over 2000 cores. The job was done by 2pm and it took another 10 minutes to bring the cluster down. Total AWS price: $525.
Dec 18th
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“While people younger than 30 years old have spent more time with the Internet...”
– American Internet Use Catches Up With TV Use - NYTimes.com we knew this day was coming. thank god.  (via bijan)
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Global mobile app market to hit $35 billion in... →
International Data Corp. projects that the number of mobile apps downloaded worldwide will grow from 10.9 billion in 2010 to 76.9 billion in 2014. That growth will equate to $35 billion in revenue in 2014
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IBM chip breakthrough may lead to exascale... →
IBM researchers have made a breakthrough in using pulses of light to accelerate data transfer between chips, something they say could boost the performance of supercomputers by more than a thousand times.
Dec 9th
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Can the U.S. Beat China on Innovation? →
China is on pace to become the world’s most important source for innovation by 2020, overtaking both the U.S. and Japan, according to a public opinion survey conducted by drugmaker AstraZeneca that will be released next week.
Dec 9th
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U.S. Online Holiday Spending Surpasses $17.5... →
More than 50 Percent of All E-Commerce Transactions for the First Five Weeks of the Holiday Season Have Included Free Shipping
Dec 9th
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UC Berkeley, Stanford team up to create flying... →
Researchers at UC Berkeley and Stanford University have developed an unmanned aerial vehicle using Kinect, Microsoft’s Xbox sensor technology. The UAV flies autonomously, maps its surroundings in 3D, and avoids obstacles.  - 2 minute Video
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Researchers create an artificial kidney, may cure chronic kidney disease
Dec 9th
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“Google may now be the biggest smartphone vendor on earth.”
– Andy Rubin: Google activates 300,000 phones every day - Google 24/7 - Fortune Tech (via fred-wilson)
Dec 9th
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“Minority internet users are more than twice as likely to use Twitter as are...”
– 8% of online Americans use Twitter | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project (via fred-wilson)
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