The Cut and Paste Chain Letter Hoax is Back: This week a number of celebrities and social media users once again cut and pasted a legal-esque disclaimer to their feeds to supposedly protect their information from imminent changes to social network policies. Wired Magazine dug into Why People Keep Falling for Viral Hoaxes: “These sorts […]
Read More Social Pulse, Week of 8-19Animals appear in real life with new Google Lens feature in Safari: Try this right now! If you have a newer iPhone, open Safari, Google “horse” and click on “Meet a life-sized horse up close” then “AR.” Read my full blog post about this technology and the implications for marketers here. AirDrop Culture: Has anyone […]
Read More Social Pulse, Week of 6-3Google says this isn’t for consumer release, but they are hot on the heels of Microsoft’s Hololens and Magic Leap in augmented reality/mixed reality visors…. “Google’s invention focuses on a system for providing a virtual reality (VR) space or headset that has the ability to interact with an Android smartphone for game play and other […]
Read More Patent to watch: Google’s mixed reality headsetIn the next generation of software, machine learning won’t just be an add-on that improves performance a few percentage points; it will really replace traditional approaches. To give just one example: a decade ago, to launch a digital music service, you probably would have enlisted a handful of elite tastemakers to pick the hottest new […]
Read More Eric Schmidt on Smarter Music…Our spaceLab team is having fun with Artificial Neural Networks… via Do Computers Dream? | spaceLab.
Read More Super Mario Bros, as dreamed by a computerIf you dig Brian Eno’s concept of Scenius, you’ll surely appreciate Google’s approach to innovation in 2014 by tapping into many minds from a like-minded community and fostering creativity by matching “thinkers” with the “doers.” Last summer it was widely reported Google was shifting away from the 20 percent time approach, but it appears they […]
Read More Alfred Spector on How Google Does Fundamental Research Without a Separate Research LabDespite the buzz at CES about smart contacts that work in concert with glasses to project images, Google now announces that it is expanding from Glass into a broader approach to smart lens capabilities — with contacts. Except this isn’t for taking pictures and accessing the anytime web like Glass. It’s more of a wearable […]
Read More Google goes public on smart contact lens project
