Jan 16
Following the inclusion of hashtags, Facebook began testing a Trending box during the late summer last year, showing popular topics in the upper corner of one’s account much in the … Continue reading
Jan 16
The Google – Safari privacy saga of 2012 has continued into this latest year, with a judge in the United Kingdom ruling privacy activists in the nation can sue the … Continue reading
Jan 16
Robots that are made to perform certain tasks require a lot of processing power and lots of programming. If you bring in another similar robot, you have to complete that programming again. That may change in the future with a group of researchers testing out something akin to a robot brain based in the cloud called RoboEarth.
The test is the result of a project funded by the EU that has spanned four years. The researchers say RoboEarth is like the World Wide Web for robots. The idea is that robots could upload the steps needed to complete certain tasks to the RoboEarth platform and that way only one robot would need to be programmed and all others could get the steps from the cloud.
“At its core RoboEarth is a world wide web for robots: a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other,” said Rene van de Molengraft, the RoboEarth project leader.
The RobotEarth system is being tested in a mock hospital room at Eindhoven University. One robot will roll into the mock room and make a map that will be shared with other bots via the RoboEarth system. The other robots will then navigate the room and give the fake patient drinks.
It all sounds really cool, and scary at the same time, like some sort of SkyNet precursor.
[via BBC]
Jan 15
Yesterday, news surfaced of an annoying and somewhat unanticipated so-called hijacking of hotel links within Google+ Local accounts by yet-unknown spammers. When clicked, the compromised links took prospective customers to … Continue reading
Jan 15
Coming a few hours after word surfaced that Google will be appealing a fine issued by France over privacy violations, issues have arisen over another breach of privacy, with this … Continue reading
Jan 15
Chrome for Mobile update brings data compression, page translation and app shortcuts
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe latest iteration of Google’s Chrome for Mobile browser — both the iOS and Android varieties — will be bringing some new handy features with them. Among them, and perhaps … Continue reading
Jan 15
The internet as we know it is in peril. Verizon’s victory in the court of appeal this week, seeing the FCC’s attempts to regulate broadband providers in the name of … Continue reading
Jan 15
14 Design Trends for 2014
Posted in: Today's Chili
Just as we did a year ago, I’m kicking off 2014 with a list of design trends I expect to gain ground over the next twelve months. The world of interactive design is an extreme fluid in terms of what’s determined as a staple of good design from year to year.
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Jan 14
Google has rolled its noisy-tab feature into the stable release of Chrome, giving users of the browser a visual clue as to which tab might be frustratingly playing music or … Continue reading
Jan 14
It is no secret the Internet is a breeding ground for its own sort of language, a common amalgamation of symbols, smileys, acronyms, hashtags, and @mentions. Twitter was the breeding … Continue reading
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