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Monday, 28 October 2013
Científicos NO prueban informáticamente que existe un ser superior
TL; DR: en realidad quizá hayan demostrado algo distinto (y ni siquiera eso es seguro). Más aquí.
¡Ay! ¡Si Gödel levantara la cabeza y leyera los periódicos!
Bonus: «demostrado con un Macbook Pro». Si es que hasta suena a ElComputerWorldToday ;-)
(Vía una copia de una copia de una copia de una copia de una copia…)
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Apple Spaceship Campus Designer Recounts Working With Steve Jobs
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Apple confirms it's 'unclear' whether there will be enough Retina iPad minis to meet demand
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Apple: The iPhone 5c is our 'mid-tier' model
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Google Glass Gets Upgrade, Lets You Invite 3 Friends
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BlackBerry Z30 hits Verizon in November for $200
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Apple just sold 33.8 million iPhones, but faces tough competition
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Google will soon let Glass users upgrade their hardware and invite their friends to buy one
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gdgt's best deals for October 28th: ASUS VivoBook S500, Polk Audio Monitor 60
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Google reportedly ramping up Glass production, prepping invite system for broader rollout
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Samsung's new dev tools bring multiscreen capabilities to TV and mobile
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Autopsia, un retrato de esos osados usuarios que se meten donde no saben y donde, desde luego, no deben
Os aseguro que conozco a usuarios que son como la señora que protagoniza Autopsia . Y dan miedo, mucho miedo. Y muchos quebraderos de cabeza.
(Gracias, Javier).
- Busca la tecla socorro, cuando un amigo te llama por teléfono por un problema con el ordenador.
- Pero yo no le hice nada, la demostración fehaciente de que los usuarios siempre mienten.
- Los mensajes de los usuarios y Los mensajes de los usuarios II, he oído cosas que no creeríais.
- 8 respuestas implacables de todo buen servicio de soporte técnico y que casi siempre lo arreglan todo.
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Apple's iPad Air Gets New Array of Logitech Keyboard Covers
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Ask a Dev: How Do Web-Based Frameworks Perform in Real-World Apps?
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President Obama's Twitter and Facebook accounts targeted in Syrian Electronic Army hack
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Rent Management Startup Cozy Recruits Flickr Co-Founder Stewart Butterfield To Its Board
Cozy, an online tool for landlords and tenants, is announcing that Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has joined its board of directors.
Butterfield told me that he's actually known Cozy co-founder and CEO Gino Zahnd since they worked together at Flickr. With that relationship, and knowing Butterfield's family background in real estate (his father worked in development, his mother was an agent), Zahnd started asking for feedback. Eventually, he invited Butterfield to join the board.
The two of them actually recorded a video talking about the news (embedded at the end of this post), in which Butterfield explains why he's excited about the company:
I think there's a huge opportunity here. I mean, there's no one really working on the rental experience for the small landlords - there's the big corporate stuff, but the vast majority of people who are renting a home, a place where they live, are renting from someone who just has a very small number of properties. … It's also one of those spaces where the big wave of fantastic software that we've been seeing over the last 10 years or so hasn't really touched yet.
Cozy's goal is to take the old-fashioned, inefficient aspects of the rental process and move them online. Its services include the ability for landlords to collect rent online, manage payments from multiple roommates, and screen tenants, and it makes money by charging landlords a $9 monthly fee (following a 60-day free trial).
The company recently raised a $5 million Series A led by General Catalyst Partners, with participation from previous investor The Social+Capital Partnership.
Butterfield, meanwhile, said Cozy is only board he's serving on now. Apparently he likes being on boards because it allows him to see “the other side” and not just the founder's perspective. (He's currently founder and CEO at Tiny Speck.)
When asked about Cozy's biggest challenge moving forward, Butterfield said it's “pretty boring” - namely, distribution. Landlords, he noted, don't really form a “natural community,” so Cozy will have to do a lot of work to make them aware of the product. (The company has already announced that it's being used by more than 6,000 landlords and renters in more than 500 cities in the US.)
“That's a surmountable challenge,” Butterfield said. “It's just regular marketing.”
Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield joins Cozy's board of directors from Cozy on Vimeo.
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Everything Mark Zuckerberg has said in public is available online, but only for your PhD
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IMAX buys stake in Prima Cinema, promises higher-quality theatrical releases in your mansion
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Así son las tripas del telescopio aerotransportado SOFIA
SOFIA , el Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, es un telescopio verdaderamente peculiar porque va montado en un Boeing 747SP modificado para servirle de plataforma a unos 12 kilómetros de altura.
Allí arriba está por encima de la mayor parte del vapor de agua que hay en la atmósfera, por lo que SOFIA puede observar aproximadamente el 85% del espectro infrarrojo, bastante más de lo que pueden observar otros telescopios a ras de suelo aunque estén en lo alto de una montaña.
En el vídeo de arriba se puede ver como es ahora el avión, con un compartimento con estaciones de trabajo donde antes iban los pasajeros y un compartimento aparte que es en el que va instalado el telescopio propiamente dicho y que tiene una compuerta que se abre para realizar las observaciones, convenientemente separados por un mamparo estanco.
En este otro vídeo se ve el telescopio propiamente dicho, aunque con el espejo primario de 2,7 metros tapado, el secundario y el terciario, y la apertura lateral por la que los fotones infrarrojos pasan a los instrumentos de este.
También se ven los telescopios guía que se aseguran que SOFIA esté mirando hacia donde se supone que tiene que estar mirando y para mantenerlo centrado en su objetivo.
La abertura por la que mira SOFIA mide 3×4 metros y tiene una rampa por delante y una especie de labio por detrás que se aseguran de que no entre aire dentro del alojamiento del telescopio o que lo haga de manera mínima para que no afecte a las observaciones.
SOFIA es un proyecto conjunto de la NASA y el DLR, el Centro Aeroespacial Alemán.
Obtuvo su primera luz en junio de 2010 y lleva haciendo observaciones científicas desde diciembre de ese año.
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Netflix captures all eight seasons of Dexter, streaming (and screaming) begins on Halloween
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World View, otro proyecto de turismo estratosférico en globo
Aunque Virgin Galactic promete llevar a sus pasajeros a más de 100 kilómetros de altura, lo que los convertirá oficialmente en astronautas al sobrepasar la línea de Kármán, la fase de ingravidez en el espacio apenas durará unos minutos.
Igual que Zero2Infinity con Bloon, la empresa World View propone otro tipo de viaje, más pausado, que usando una cápsula presurizada y un enorme globo de helio lleve a dos tripulantes y seis pasajeros hasta unos 100.000 pies de altura, unos 33 kilómetros.
Eso es ya en la estratosfera y permite tanto ver la curvatura de la Tierra como el cielo negro aunque el vuelo se realice en pleno día.
El ascenso lleva como noventa minutos, se permanece allí un par de horas, y se baja planeando en poco menos de tres cuartos de hora.
El precio, unos 75.000 dólares de nada y esperar a que la cápsula esté lista, lo que estiman que ocurrirá en unos tres años.
En esto los de Zero2Infinity llevan ventaja, pues ya han hecho vuelos de prueba con un modelo a escala.
(Forbes vía @SuttleAlmanac).
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Nvidia Shield Plays Great, but Who Is It For?
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Worried About Acne? mySkin Launches ScanZ Device And App To Monitor The Health Of Your Skin
ScanZ, a product unveiled today at Disrupt Europe, combines a new, smartphone-connected device with a quantified self-style app to help teens battle acne.
The product comes from a company called mySkin, which plans to launch a $150,000 Indiegogo campaign this week to fund the launch (I will update this post once the campaign is live). Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Sava Marinkovich told me that the initial version of ScanZ will be able to answer two questions about a zit - when it's going away, and what you can do to make it go away more quickly. And it can answer a more general question - whether or not you're about to break out.
Over the weekend, the mySkin team demonstrated a ScanZ prototype for me. One of them scanned one of his zits (the team seems to have an unusual attitude toward acne - they almost cheer when they find a zit, because it gives them something to test) and the app then asked some basic questions about things like diet and cleaning products used. Then it provided an estimate of when the zit would go away, along with a list of recommended actions. As users commit to following more of the app's recommendations, the estimated time until the zit's disappearance goes down, say from four days to three.
Marinkovich said that when users are scanning their skin, ScanZ is illuminating them with different wavelengths of light, and it's using different image processing techniques to analyze what it finds, including below the skin: “We've developed most of this in-house, based on dermoscopy and spectroscopy.”
Apparently ScanZ also learns about your habits and your skin, bringing it all together in a personal “beauty map”, so its recommendations and predications are supposed to get smarter over time
I'm guessing there are a number of apps and products with dubious efficacy in this field - in fact, the Federal Trade Commission has gone after apps for falsely claiming that they eradicate acne. One way to alleviate any skepticism you might have is to consider the mySkin team, which includes Chief Science Officer Djuro Kuroga, a professor who leads the nanotechnology biomedical engineering group at the University of Belgrade, and Chief Medical Officer Jadran Bandic, who is the head of ORS Hospital in Serbia. And mySkin's advisors include Loretta Cirado, who's director of cosmetic dermatology at the University of Miami.
Plus, marketing manager Irina Simin argued that ScanZ users aren't just being asked to blindly follow a set of directions. Instead, they'll get actual data about things like scarring risk and sebum levels, so they understand what's happening and how their actions will affect their skin: “This basically tells you what is going on and you can make your own decision.”
mySkin expects to deliver its first ScanZ devices in May of next year, with a retail price of $249, (there will also be discounts for preorders). That might seem a bit steep for the teenaged audience that Marinkovich said he's aiming for. He told me he actually expecting parents to do a lot of the buying, and he noted that SkinZ may appeal to other age groups too. (As a 30-year-old, even though I don't think that my acne is as bad as it used to be, I still worry about break outs before I go on-camera or on-stage at Disrupt.)
And this is just the first step in the company's vision. The plan is to use the technology for other skin health products, and to turn it into a platform that will allow other applications and services to access ScanZ data - Marinkovich said interested developers should reach out now.
“It's the first open imaging platform that is device-based and that people can use,” Marinkovich said. “What the Raspberry Pi is for Arduino, it's kind of like that for skin in general.”
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Qardio Is Building A Consumer ECG Monitor That Streams Data To Your Doctor, iPhone
Qardio co-founder Marco Peluso had a dedicated career in finance for 14 years. He was an investment banker for JPMorgan, then a partner at a hedge fund.
But everything changed when his father had a stroke while they were on the phone.
“I was lucky enough to understand what was happening,” he said, remembering that he quickly got in touch with a neighbor to take his father to the hospital. But doctors couldn't identify what triggered the minor stroke, known as a TIA, or Transient Ischemic Attack.
Six months later, his father found himself struggling to finish his usual morning jog.
“It was shocking for me to know that even now, we didn't have a good way of understanding or proving what was happening,” he said.
He was compelled to leave his banking and investment career to start Qardio, which is set to launch an ECG monitor for consumers next year at a price of $449. They also have a second product, a blood pressure monitor called QardioArm that will retail for $99.
The ECG monitoring device, called the QardioCore, streams data to the owner's phone and can even send it on to a person's health care provider through a cloud-based service. It lets a doctor “see” a patient without really seeing them in person.
Peluso says his QardioCore product is less effort-intensive than other sophisticated monitors, which might require skin patches, shaving a person's chest or adhesive gel.
“It doesn't require any skin preparation,” he said. “You put it on your chest, it switches itself on when it detects your body, then wirelessly sends signals to you iPhone, which then go to our server.”
He says the two devices fix a major problem in health monitoring because they make ECG and blood pressure-tracking much more passive, meaning doctors can collect a stream of data and put it in context instead of taking one-off measurements.
Peluso and his co-founder had a team of industrial designers and engineers work on designing both the QardioArm and QardioCore for the past year. They manufacture in Southeast Asia and plan to retail both devices online and through brick-and-mortar partnerships early next year.
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With Satago, Freelancers Can Anonymously Report When They Actually Get Paid
As a freelancer or small business owner, you probably know that one of the most pressing issues is late payments and chasing customers months after a job was done. Meet Satago, the online platform where small businesses and freelancers can anonymously report when they get paid by their clients. It launches today at Disrupt Europe. All you need to do is link your accounting software to Satago - then everything will happen automatically. This way, you'll get a better picture of what to expect from your clients.
“I grew up with a family business in the construction sector,” co-founder and CEO Steven Renwick told me in a phone interview before the conference. “This is something I remembered as a child - this company is paying late and is hurting our family business,” he continued.
Satago uses an API to connect its platform to existing accounting software. The CEO mentioned FreshBooks and QuickBooks as targeted applications. Your data is anonymized and obfuscated so that Satago and the rest of the world don't know the exact amounts. You can control exactly what information is shared.
But what if that's not enough and you really don't want to share data with Satago? You'll have to pay for reports. Primarily, Satago defines itself as an information exchange, and the only way to get data is to provide something in exchange - data or money. The exact pricing is not finalized yet.
The team of three has raised $48,500 (£30,000) in equity investment through Seedrs, a crowdfunding platform for early-stage British startups. In fact, it is one of the first British companies to go the crowdfunding route. This amount was enough to help the team develop Satago in seven months.
Now that the startup has finally released its product, many have shown a keen interest in Satago. For example, the British government met the company multiple times because it is very interested in helping eradicate late payments. It could boost small and medium enterprises in the U.K.
For now, it only works with U.K.-based companies as Satago links all of its data to a database of British companies. “The dashboard itself can be used from anywhere, and we'll be expanding internationally,” Renwick said. Down the road, the company even plans to become an outsourced debt collector. This is the feature that could turn Satago into a real killer service for freelancers and small businesses. As Renwick said, “we'll start chasing the customers for you so you don't have to.”
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You can now tweet the gift of coffee to a deserving pal thanks to Strabucks
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Samsung Announces Galaxy Gear Support for More Smartphones
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