[VIDEO] Krauthammer: Trump Understands That Fighting Intel ‘Is a Losing Proposition’
Posted: January 7, 2017 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, Politics, Russia, Think Tank | Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Donald Trump, Fox News, Intel, Intelligence, media, video 1 Comment
Meet ‘Jia Jia’: China Develops Home-Grown Human-Like Robot
Posted: April 15, 2016 Filed under: China, Robotics, Science & Technology | Tags: Artificial Intelligence, China, David Hanson (robotics designer), Emotion, Facial expression, Google Chrome, Human, Intel, Robot Leave a comment
China’s University of Science and Technology released a human-like robot that is comparable to Japanese models seen in the past on Friday. Not only does it have the face of a beautiful woman, it also capable of interacting with people next to “her.”
Named “Jia Jia,” the face of the life-sized robot is drawn from five attractive female students from the university. Equipped with basic functions, such as making conversation, facial expressions, as well as gestures, it’s apparently more than Siri with a pretty face.
The University also added the robot is “the first of its kind in China”.
Hacker Threatens To Sell Hillary Clinton’s Entire Unreleased Private Emails For $500K
Posted: September 3, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Politics | Tags: Algeria, Benghazi, Computer professional, Hillary Clinton, Intel, Libya, Radar Online, Secretary of State, United States Secretary of State Leave a comment
Just as email-gate looked to be winding down, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned a person claiming to be a computer specialist has come forward with the stunning news that 32,000 emails from Hillary Clinton‘s private email account are up for sale. The price 
tag — a whopping $500,000!
Promising to give the trove of the former Secretary of State’s emails to the highest bidder, the specialist is showing subject lines as proof of what appear to be legitimate messages.
“Hillary or someone from her camp erased the outbox containing her emails, but forgot to erase the emails that were in her sent box,” an insider reveals to Radar of the Presidential contender’s latest nightmare. Read the rest of this entry »
Before the Apple Watch There Was The Hewlett Packard Calculator Watch, Before That, The Seiko Watchman TV Watch
Posted: April 29, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: Android Ice Cream Sandwich, Apple Inc, Apple Watch, Asus, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IOS, iPhone, Microsoft, Personal computer Leave a comment
Before the Apple Watch, there was the Hewlett Packard calculator watch. And before that, there was the Seiko Watchman TV watch. A curator from our Museum of American History talks about the evolution of wrist tech on Smithsonian Science News
via Smithsonian
[VIDEO] Gordon Moore: Thoughts on the 50th Anniversary of Moore’s Law
Posted: April 15, 2015 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Science & Technology | Tags: Aart de Geus, Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, Andrew Grove, Apple Inc, Atari, Book, Exponential growth, Gordon Moore, Integrated circuit, Intel, Moore's law, Personal computer Leave a commentThis April marks the 50th Anniversary of Moore’s Law. Three years before co-founding Intel, Gordon Moore made a simple observation that has revolutionized the computing industry. It states, the number of transistors – the fundamental building blocks of the microprocessor and the digital age – incorporated on a computer chip will double every two years, resulting in increased computing power and devices that are faster, smaller and lower cost.
The Message is the Medium
Posted: March 29, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Global, Science & Technology | Tags: Android (operating system), Apple Daily, Apple Inc, Baselworld, China, Facebook, Germany, Google, Google Play, Hong Kong, Intel, IOS, iPhone, Silicon Valley, Switzerland, TAG Heuer Leave a commentMessaging Services Are Rapidly Growing Beyond Online Chat
“I PROPOSE, if and when found, to take him by his beastly neck, shake him till he froths, and pull him inside out and make him swallow himself.” It is not often that Silicon Valley’s denizens quote P.G. 
Wodehouse. But this is what Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz, a venture-capital firm, expects the success of messaging services could do to both mobile and corporate software.
The most striking example so far of this process came on March 25th when Facebook announced at a conference in San Francisco that it has started to turn its Messenger service into a “platform” that can carry, and be integrated with, all manner of apps created by other software firms. So Facebook Messenger, which is itself an app for smartphones that run on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems, will then be competing with those operating systems’ services for buying apps and downloads. In plain language, it could become the app that ate Apple’s app store.
The prospect may surprise those who thought messaging apps were just another way for teens to share this week’s tragic news about One Direction (a pop group, apparently). But their continuing explosive growth suggests that they will be a
lasting phenomenon. According to Flurry, a market-research firm, the total number of users grew by more than 100% last year (which explains why old-style text messages seem to have peaked, see chart). Together the ten biggest messaging 
apps, which include KakaoTalk, Viber and WeChat, now boast more than 3 billion users. WhatsApp, the leader of the pack, alone has 700m—a big reason why Facebook last year paid $22 billion for the firm, despite continuing to develop its own Messenger app.
As the number of users has grown, specialised versions of messaging apps have emerged. What made Snapchat popular was the ability to exchange pictures that vanish after a few seconds (and often contain nudity). Secret, Whisper and Yik Yak let users remain anonymous (including bullies, unfortunately). Telegram stands out because of its strong encryption (making intelligence services unhappy). And FireChat works without cellular service: users’ phones communicate directly, which was a popular feature during recent protests in Hong Kong. Read the rest of this entry »
PANIC: U.S. Stocks Lose Sense of Humor
Posted: January 5, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Economics, U.S. News | Tags: Associated Press, Blue chip (stock market), Chevron Corporation, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Economic data, Information technology, Intel, MarketWatch, Nasdaq Composite, S&P 500 Leave a comment
The decline in oil prices has proved a mixed blessing for stocks in recent months. Though it has led to lower gasoline prices and boosted the fortunes of ordinary consumers, the slide has also curbed profits within the once-booming energy sector, which makes up a growing piece of the U.S. economy amid resurgent domestic oil production.
The Dow industrials tumbled more than 300 points Monday, kicking off the new year on a sour note as a renewed slide in oil prices sent energy shares sharply lower.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 329 points, or 1.9%, to 17504 in late afternoon trading. The S&P 500 index slid 37 points, or 1.8%, to 2021.
“Oil is first and foremost on everybody’s mind. People are thinking if it’s going to $40, where does that leave the economy?”
— Jesse Lubarsky, senior vice president and equity trader at Raymond James in New York
The Nasdaq Composite Index declined 73 points, or 1.6%, to 4654.
Monday’s losses began at the opening bell and picked up steam as oil prices plumbed new lows, with beleaguered shares of energy companies leading the push lower. U.S. oil prices fell below $50 a barrel for the first time in nearly six years Monday, sending shares of S&P 500 energy companies tumbling nearly 4%.
The euro tumbled to a nine-year low Monday as new worries flared over Greece, where a woman in Athens passed a currency-changing business. Associated Press
“It seems like everyone is taking a step back instead of running into the new year,” said Viren Chandrasoma, managing director of equity trading at Credit Suisse . “There hasn’t been a real buying-on-the-dip mentality today.”
The decline in oil prices has proved a mixed blessing for stocks in recent months. Though it has led to lower gasoline prices and boosted the fortunes of ordinary consumers, the slide has also curbed profits within the once-booming energy sector, which makes up a growing piece of the U.S. economy amid resurgent domestic oil production.
“Oil is first and foremost on everybody’s mind,” said Jesse Lubarsky, senior vice president and equity trader at Raymond James in New York. “People are thinking if it’s going to $40, where does that leave the economy?”
Despite Monday’s rout, Wall Street trading desks said activity was relatively light given the scale of the move lower. Rather than sell en masse, many investors started the new year with a more cautious posture following double-digit gains in major indexes last year. Read the rest of this entry »
Robot Hacks Begins: Building Bots with Master Makers
Posted: October 28, 2013 Filed under: Robotics | Tags: Brian Johnson (baseball), Chuck Fletcher, Dave Barrett, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Gael Langevin, Intel, Mike Senese, Olin College Leave a comment
Gael Langevin and his open source, 3D-printed InMoov robot will be our guests on November 13th.
Mike Senese reports: We’re excited to announce Robot Hacks, the latest in our Maker Sessions series. This new program launches with two great components: we’ll be hosting discussions with leaders in the field of robotics and robot design, while concurrently enlisting and equipping community members to build and share robotics projects of their own — those interested in participating can apply to create a team and receive our package of robotics components, parts and materials.
The program kicks off Sunday November 3rd at 1pm ET with a live event and Google hangout from Olin College in Needham, Mass., where we’ll converse with Intel Futurist and 21st Century Robot author Brian David Johnson, illustrator Sandy Winkelman, designer/fabricator Wayne Losey, and Olin College Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Design Dave Barrett.
The First Carbon Nanotube Computer
Posted: September 26, 2013 Filed under: Science & Technology | Tags: Carbon nanotube, IBM, Intel, Intel 4004, Microsystems Technology Office, Philip Wong, Semiconductor Research Corporation, Stanford, Stanford University Leave a commentA carbon nanotube computer processor is comparable to a chip from the early 1970s, and may be the first step beyond silicon electronics.
Tube chip: This scanning electron microscopy image shows a section of the first-ever carbon nanotube computer. The image was colored to identify different parts of the chip.
Katherine Bourzac reports: For the first time, researchers have built a computer whose central processor is based entirely on carbon nanotubes, a form of carbon with remarkable material and electronic properties. The computer is slow and simple, but its creators, a group of Stanford University engineers, say it shows that carbon nanotube electronics are a viable potential replacement for silicon when it reaches its limits in ever-smaller electronic circuits.
The carbon nanotube processor is comparable in capabilities to the Intel 4004, that company’s first microprocessor, which was released in 1971, says Subhasish Mitra, an electrical engineer at Stanford and one of the project’s co-leaders. The computer, described today in the journal Nature, runs a simple software instruction set called MIPS. It can switch between multiple tasks (counting and sorting numbers) and keep track of them, and it can fetch data from and send it back to an external memory.
The nanotube processor is made up of 142 transistors, each of which contains carbon nanotubes that are about 10 to 200 nanometer long. The Stanford group says it has made six versions of carbon nanotube computers, including one that can be connected to external hardware—a numerical keypad that can be used to input numbers for addition. Read the rest of this entry »
