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by techwatching 13y ago
Great response from Nest. But honestly - their algorithmic "trust us, the device knows what its doing" approach has always made me uncomfortable. The thermostat for instance - I don't want my thermostat to learn my habits and
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by techwatching 13y ago
A wrinkle that I think is often missed in discussion on the information economy is the transition from "service economy" to self-service economy. Not only is the traditional paradigm of selling labour under downward pressure, as p
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by techwatching 13y ago
Different generations also have access to different opportunities.
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TechCrunch reviews the original Fire TV: FyreTV Porn Streamer(techcrunch.com)
1 points by techwatching 13y ago|0 comments
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by techwatching 13y ago
What a day! Windows 8.1 - Mouse and Keyboard Friendly, and Start Button returns: http://techwatching.com/page/mouse-and-keyboard-friendly-win... Windows is Free on devices with less than 9 inch screens: http:/&#x
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Microsoft roundup – Universal Apps, Free OS, Cortana, Return of the Start Button
2 points by techwatching 13y ago|1 comments
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by techwatching 13y ago
Is it weird that I wistfully read that as Atari's Jaguar Microarchitecture
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Silk Road owner can't be guilty of money laundering if Bitcoin isn't money(theverge.com)
10 points by techwatching 13y ago|1 comments
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by techwatching 13y ago
In regards to (1), they can lease/finance them. As long as the $60 includes enough gross margin, and as long as they have enough borrowing capacity, they don't need $2000 * X laptops to start up. Seems like a good relationship wit
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by techwatching 13y ago
Wow - that was asinine. Say what you will about Clinkle's mess ( http://techwatching.com/tag/clinkle ), no one's served well by wanton meanness.
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by techwatching 13y ago
Whats the advantage over financing such a purchase through any of the other number of means available?
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by techwatching 13y ago
"You basically have a whole bunch of cyber geeks trying to tout themselves as a monetary authority. That's just not going to fly." Riiight. Because "cyber geeks" have never achieved any meaningful change in the worl
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by techwatching 13y ago
...but still no comments.
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by techwatching 13y ago
"So why aren’t we sharing that intimacy with the people in our real life circles?" Offering compassion is a form of vulnerability for many; Secret and its ilk provide a "safe" way to do so.
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by techwatching 13y ago
"Snyder is proposing this as the actual mechanism of Huntington's, and they have shown, in human tissue culture and in mouse models of the disease, that supplementation with extra cysteine can stop or reverse the cellular signs of
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by techwatching 13y ago
"ANDREESSEN: It’s a little bit like dogs watching TV. It’s like, it’s all very interesting, but like whatever until another dog shows up on screen and then the dog freaks out. Economists, like this stuff is all like, whatever, technolo
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by techwatching 13y ago
That was my first thought. MS or Google. Certainly moreso either of those than FB. At least there's some product & competency fit. For FB, it just seems like "we need something other than social, lets throw this at the wall an
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by techwatching 13y ago
You would think that for compounds with such potentially far-reaching effects, there would be an expedited clinical trials program with informed consent from terminal patients, or something similar.
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Early Supporters of Oculus VR Denounce Facebook Buyout(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by techwatching 13y ago|0 comments
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by techwatching 13y ago
The issues in my mind are the thought processes that lead him to hold his opinions. Those processes generated a prejudiced world view - one held strongly enough to affect behaviour to extend of spending money to bolster that prejudice. Are
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by techwatching 13y ago
Arguably, yes. We should demand "perfection" in our public figures, inasmuch as "perfection" means freedom from prejudice. In the case of BE its particularly relevant as the company he runs provides the lens through whic
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by techwatching 13y ago
For sure; maybe the saw the writing on the wall though - i.e.: its hard for an independent to compete with Sony / MSFT / whatever other MegaCos enter the fray in terms of development resources, manufacturing scale, leverage with s
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by techwatching 13y ago
Widely reported... http://techwatching.com/page.php?i=25236
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by techwatching 13y ago
Ok, so the hardware landgrab is in full effect. But... Facebook? Facebook is going to be competing with Sony? How does this line up with their competencies? With the track record they have with phones, I'm not holding my breath here. O
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by techwatching 13y ago
It would be even more compelling if it was packaged as a device, so that a layperson could plug it in, and log into it to install apps etc. An inverse-Steam box, if you will.
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by techwatching 13y ago
Dev Kit in the news: http://techwatching.com/page.php?i=22975 vs Sony: http://techwatching.com/page.php?i=22780 Oculus' focus is on latency; Sony's looks like its on packaging. At least Sony has c