Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas By - January 9, 2012 in Case Study | UX It is often the case in interaction design that the best solutions simply get out of the way, allowing the user to achieve their goal and get on with their life. With Google Maps, this is certainly the desired outcome.…

Preoccupations David Ferrucci led the team behind Watson, the victorious “Jeopardy” computer. “For the scientist in me,” he says, “it was an irresistible challenge.”.Credit...Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times THE assignment was one of the biggest challenges in the field of artificial intelligence:…

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Einzellige Organismen, die vor über einer halben Milliarde Jahre gelebt haben und deren Fossilien in China gefunden wurden, sind die unmittelbaren Vorläufer der frühesten Tiere. Die amöbenartigen Einzeller haben sich in einer Weise in zwei, vier, acht usw. Zellen geteilt, wie es heute tierische (und…

Only recently have scientists accorded chimpanzees, so closely related to humans we can share blood transfusions, the dignity of having a mind. But now, increasingly, researchers who study octopuses are convinced that these boneless, alien animals—creatures whose ancestors diverged from the lineage…

Jonas and Wyatt Maines were born identical twins, but from the start each had a distinct personality. Jonas was all boy. He loved Spiderman, action figures, pirates, and swords. Wyatt favored pink tutus and beads. At 4, he insisted on a Barbie birthday cake and had a thing for mermaids. On…

18 November 2011 Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi Linda P.B. Katehi, I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, and I teach in the Program in Critical Theory and in Science & Technology Studies. I have a strong record of research,…

Elephants are learning to live with us. Can we do the same?Animals Elephants are learning to live with us. Can we do the same? Elephants are learning to live with us. Can we do the same? Elephants are in trouble—and we’re to blameAnimals Elephants are in trouble—and we’re to blame Elephants are in…

(updated below) The now-viral video of police officers in their Robocop costumes sadistically pepper-spraying peaceful, sitting protesters at UC-Davis (details here) shows a police state in its pure form. It's easy to be outraged by this incident as though it's some sort of shocking aberration, but…

Jet lag is a funny thing. It plays tricks on the mind. For instance, right now I could swear that I'm crammed into a tiny karaoke room on an upper floor of a building somewhere in Tokyo. The narrow ta

Gotham In the aftermath of the Occupy Wall Street eviction from Zuccotti Park, a mayoral aide e-mailed reporters. The aide, Stu Loeser, said that he had heard of journalists “supposedly” wearing police press badges who “allegedly encountered problems on the streets of New York.” As I sling nouns and…

Last updated on 25. desember 2017 Merk: Denne teksten er mer enn ett år gammel. Jeg kan ikke garantere at alt som står her fremdeles er riktig eller det jeg mener. Les likevel og skriv en kommentar om du lurer på noe! English: Old post, might be outdated. Update, December 2014: Even though many of…

In 2002, Google began scanning the world’s 130 million or so books in preparation for the “secret ‘books’ project” that eventually became Google Books. In 2004, they began offering access to these scans, displaying the irritatingly-named “snippets” of books in their search results. And in no time at…

After three years of intermittent work, several rounds of shopping and a great many rounds of battery recharging, my One Frame Movie series came to an end last Sunday with what I feel to be one of my

by Danny Gold The word “hated” adorns Hunter Moore’s social-media bios. He has drawn the ire of the music industry, young people from all over the United States (as well as Canada, England and Australia), of privacy defenders — and, well, of many, many other people who happen to come across his…

News! This week, I started writing Codeword, a new weekly column for Wired.com. I’m covering a mix of data journalism, Internet culture, indie gaming, or whatever else I find interesting — the same kind of thing I’ve written here for almost a decade. As part of the arrangement, I retain joint…

DESIGN Why Costco is targeting the rich, with deals on Rolexes, 10-carat diamonds, and gold bars The top 10% of U.S. earners now account for almost 50% of all spending. And some are buying their luxury goods at Costco. DESIGN There’s a reason the new ‘White Lotus’ opening credits feel different We…

echocam, artvamp.com, 2000 Maybe half of being a camgirl was talking about being a camgirl – not just turning a webcam on yourself and by extension your life, but documenting how your life changed from having turned a webcam on it. We were only doing this for a little while, from sometime in the…

Some people have a legitimate reason to feel depressed, but not me. I just woke up one day feeling sad and helpless for absolutely no reason. It's disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it - you can listen to sad music and…

LONDON — After decades of healthy profits, the scholarly publishing industry now finds itself in the throes of a revolt led by the most unlikely campus revolutionaries: the librarians. Universities from Britain to California are refusing to renew their expensive subscriptions, turning instead to…

Nov. 16, 1999 Do great orgasms last longer than Oscars? American actress Meg Ryan and British thespian Helena Bonham-Carter have never nabbed Academy Awards, but they'll both be immortally cherished for their caterwauling, cinematic climaxes. Ryan's charm and humor etched itself intimately into…

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Editor’s Note: This is part of IEEE Spectrum’s ongoing coverage of Japan’s earthquake and nuclear emergency. EXCLUSIVE: THE FUKUSHIMA ROBOT DIARIES An anonymous worker at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has written dozens of blog posts describing the ups and downs of his experience as…

Annals of Business May 9, 2011 The mouse was conceived by the computer scientist Douglas Engelbart, developed by Xerox PARC, and made marketable by Apple.Illustration by PAUL ROGERS In late 1979, a twenty-four-year-old entrepreneur paid a visit to a research center in Silicon Valley called Xerox…

When Thomas Shaw gets worked up, he twists in his chair and kneads his hand. Or he paces about in his tube socks grumbling, “They’re trying to destroy us,” and “The whole thing is a giant scam.” And Shaw, the founder of a medical device maker called Retractable Technologies, spends a lot of time…