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"We are the inventors of the technology but we have no intentions of commercialising it or monetising it in that way," he said. "We will license it out and the partners will take it forward to doctors and patients."
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Perhaps, in a world where direct response advertising is growing ever more relevant and useful, brand advertising can wither and die, taking the Wanamaker problem with it. Do we need to hear stories that try to make us have emotional relat
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Perhaps if a president like Eisenhower, who came up through the military, warned about a "military industrial complex", that would be some evidence that the power of elected politicians is limited in some real way. And perhaps &qu
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If someone is looking for an impossible problem to solve and be paid well: JP Morgan is spending a quarter of a billion dollars this year to achieve list level of security.
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Product managers and designers have to make the correct trade offs among the many things that people value. The question here is if Apple got the trade-offs wrong, and made the phone too thin at the expense of something that people might ca
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To be clear, for people, who haven't read the article, it's making case that Apple and Google are taking "vastly different routes to getting a computer on your wrist" and that "we'll see who has the better appr
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We partnered with Timex on a wearables project once, and their sentiment seemed to be that you needed a couple of thousand SKUs before you'd truly satisfy people's desire for personal expression. With less you'd run into &qu
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"Apple has clearly put a lot more thought into how interactions on a device like this should work" What's interesting to me is the extent to which the Apple Watch is designed to be interacted with, which contrasts strongly wi
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And, of course, if they are independent, they'd have the ability to delink their currency from the pound later, even if that isn't their intent at the moment.
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Given that 50 million domestic workers are employed worldwide in people's homes, perhaps many people won't actually waste their time worrying about the "privacy" implications of a device which presumably isn't desig
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In addition to what others have noted: he's seen as someone who develops people internally, with many of his management team having started out as baggers years ago the stores have been noted for years as having good prices (and, at
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Really? Life in the United States has gotten catastrophically worse since 1913 because citizens vote for senators as opposed to the stirling types of people who are politicians at the state level?
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Mostly true for startups, and nearly all other businesses. At the same time, knowing that the type of speech recognition they wanted to build wouldn't be possible for a long time, the Bakers thought, and then executed in decades. Cont
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Android Wear is for a mass market consumer products, it better have clear use cases and be embodied in devices that are affordable for millions of people. Glass is a prototype that happens to be available to consumers. It's useful in
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That price isn't encouraging for an announcement of a consumer release "at about the price of a smartphone" at Google I/O this week...
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Beyond the fact that humans have lived in small groups for almost the entirety of our existence, even in the brief flicker of time where that hasn't been the case, people who can afford to do so have hired domestic workers. In a world
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If universities can't manage to exist in the US off the 70 billion the feds spend on tuition support, or by snagging a share of the 150 billion the US government spend on research, let them die.
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Hmmm, two of the strongest contenders in the consumerist's "Worst Company in America" competition joining forces. This should be interesting in a "not touching whatever the offering is with a ten foot pole" sort of
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OkCupid is not advocating restricting Eich's right to participate in civic society, to spout his hate, or even his ability to spend money to promote restricting the lives of others. They are simply and clearly pointing out that he seek
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I'm no fan of Facebook, but in the absence of evidence that they acted tactically, it would seem fair to give them credit for understanding that participating in a cartel is both stupid and unethical.
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It is clear (from reading HN) that some people exist who do not find this acceptable. At the same time, the adoption rates for, say, Facebook show that "nearly everyone" are not actually concerned about such things in practice. Th
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Of course the emotional appeal that Microsoft was making was that a personified "Google" was poking through your e-mail. It seems very unlikely that they were spending money to make the banal point that the ads one sees on gmail a
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This is accurate if viewing rights from a US legal perspective. People who care deeply about privacy could make the case that this is unjust because there the legal system ought to recognize this as a natural human right. Others, of a more
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Field Trip languished on my phone, but the immediacy of the contextual information on Glass transforms the experience. It is surprisingly delightful to get "little gifts" of information as you are walking through a city. Walking b
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New York has been about art and culture for a very long time. That's because the artists are, economically speaking, a courtier class, and the best way for them to thrive (and therefore the best way to surround yourself with fellow fu
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Hmmm, interesting. What I observed instead was a sad paucity of useful thinking being expressed on HN. No cruel yet detailed dissections of the deal, no examination of the technological possibilities, or posts where people speculated on wh
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Of course, even if the interstate highway had been completed, it's a rather odd to feel that the meaning of the work is derived from the literal experience of a particular road. It's like saying that so much is made of Leonardo&#x
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Citizens ought to critically examine and assess the policies and practices of their government on an ongoing basis. To simply through up one's hands and say "there was an election, basically anything they do is legitimate" w
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If by less privacy you mean: Google has access to a bit more information to make even more money by serving slightly more relevant ads, well, yes the observable truth is that people do not share your concerns. Very large numbers of people a
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As Anita Sarkeesian observes, it is possible to enjoy something while also being critical of it’s problematic aspects.

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