Amazon Planning A Netflix For Books
Oh, you mean a library?
“Don’t you want to have a body?”
Two chatbots talking to one another. They’re both instances of CleverBot, as featured on Radiolab earlier in the summer.
Scott Beale says: “Cornell Creative Machines Lab wanted to see what would happend if two Cleverbot AI ChatBots had a conversation with each other.”
I think I’ve just seen the beginning of the end.
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Source: redsuspenders
Veal Chop!: my last-year real life on a blog
The Text
Him: “What’s up”The Analysis
K: I don’t think it’s that much of an exaggeration to say that people who only text “what’s up” all the time should be banished to an island that is slowly sinking.
B: He sends this text to me every couple of weeks, on Friday…
Source: idhaveyouanytime
Rollerball pen draws electronic circuits on paper
Love this kind of thing:
A team of researchers from the University of Illinois have created a pen with conductive silver ink that can be used to draw electrical circuits on paper, wood and other materials. Although similar pens are already available, the difference here is that the ink is bendable when dry, meaning that even if the paper is folded or bent, the circuit will still function normally.
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The researchers have also been able to add components to their hand-drawn circuits, including a flexible LED display, three-dimensional radio-frequency antennas and a battery.
Perfect Hipster Techie Marriage: Ace Hotel and Google
The Ace Hotel NYC is now equipping its rooms and lobby with sexy black matte Google Chromebooks swathed in an Etsy-esque buttoned slipcover and a pre-loaded virtual concierge app, the Ace Hotel New York’s Field Guide. They’re calling them Ace Chromebooks. Wee! Is the Chromebook the new iPad?
Not exactly–the Ace is going for more of a “nerd cool” kinda vibe. “For guests, we’re laying out an extra gift: an Ace x Google designed notebook–with real paper–wearing a John Milton quote from 1634,” the press release says. Chromebook + Ace Hotel + effete literary reference? You just can’t get this kind of cred from the Empire or Airbnb.
Source: twitter.com
Netflix streaming is the biggest user of bandwidth in North America
For downstream, it’s bigger than YouTube and HTTP (that’s, you know, most internet content) combined.
