IBM announces it is more/less opening up approximately 500 patents to open source developers working in areas “such as image processing, human language processing, user interfaces and data handling.” An interesting part of this, I thought: Over 30 patents were generated from within IBM Canada, many from IBM’s Toronto Software Lab. Brings to mind the […]
Neat feature on Wired re: ethics for the robot age. Though its less ethics and more “what if” speculation with some ethical questions thrown in. My favorite: 3. Should robots excrete byproducts? When cars were invented, no one imagined that hundreds of millions of them would spew carbon monoxide into the atmosphere. But they do, […]
Test Yr Geographic Knowledge! 45 perfect out of 50 states with an average error of 30 miles. Not too shabby…
As promised, we’re back to follow up on my headless speculation (and my debunkery…) and put a few items out about the Mac mini right off the bat. Like some people, I think that there’s a lot to like in this little package. And I go back and forth on whether/not I think it will […]