The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Arrationality is an evolving term. It evolves specifically in reaction to rationality. Arrationality is as much a part of the 500-year process of welcoming science into our consciousness as anything else. In this sense, arrationality was how people thought before the early modern era began around 1500 – admittedly not always to the greatest effect.
Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out (in theory).
Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out
Phi Beta Iota: Microsoft probably uses the constant updates to do things other than update. They simply cannot be trusted anymore than Google. The global marketplace is waiting for a cloud convergence that provides absolute default security including at rest data encryption.
Good, Google does (sometimes).
Google Translate app adds 20 more languages
By week's end, the Android and iOS app will offer instant translation in a total of 27 languages.
Watson: The PR Blitz Continues
I know that IBM is trying to reverse 13 quarters of revenue decline. I know that most of the firm’s business units are struggling to hit their numbers.
EXTRACT
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: IBM Comatose, Near Death”
This beautiful meditation on the networked nature of knowledge and collaboration turns on the fulcrum of attention to information.
Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
How we choose to pay attention, and relate to information and each other shapes who we become, shapes our creative destiny and, in turn, shapes our experience of the world. And, in my mind, there’s nothing more important than that.
Continue reading “Howard Rheingold: Networked Knowledge & Combinatorial Creativity”
Why the Largest Social Network in 2015 Won’t be Facebook, and Will Be From Asia
Asian social messaging services get what users today are looking for out of social sharing: simplicity and fun.
Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone
Phi Beta Iota: It's a pity US and Israel did not join in 1994 to commit to secure open source communications and computing — if absolutely trustworthy they would dominate the world marketplace by now. This vulnerability joins the long-known Chinese ability to ride electrical power circuits into US national security and commerical computers not connected to the Internet.
