Robot Tweeting Its Way Through Hurricane Iselle (video)

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Liquid Robotics President and CEO Gary Gysin discusses how the company’s Wave Glider SV3 collects information for hurricane intensity forecasting. He speaks on "Bloomberg West.” (Aug. 8-Bloomberg)

The doctor will now see you -- on a smartphone - San Jose Mercury News: "The proliferation of doctor consultation apps, which allow patients to see a doctor through their desktop, smartphone or tablet camera for a flat fee of $40 to $50, has outpaced state regulators still grappling to figure out how to regulate telemedicine. The Federation of State Medical Boards recently offered a model policy for states -- aimed at supporting the growth of telemedicine -- but states still have varying and often difficult-to-interpret rules, creating a vague regulatory framework that some experts say these companies have exploited. Currently, 19 states, including California, have regulations that allow doctors to practice medicine over video in some form, yet most apps say they operate in more than 40."

John McAfee at Def Con: Don’t Use Smartphones - Digits - WSJ: "... On the subjects of privacy and security, McAfee said smartphones are spying on American consumers, who don’t bother to read user agreements. “The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones,” he said. “I’m dumping all my smart phones.”... One attendee asked if he could download Mr. McAfee’s app without downloading the Google Play Store, which the questioner said he doesn’t trust on his phone. McAfee was unsure of the answer. “I don’t know much about technology anymore,” he said."


New York Times
In a Fight With Authors, Amazon Cites Orwell, but Not Quite Correctly
New York Times
Amazon quoted a 1936 essay by George Orwell in a web posting and .... Glenn Fleishman, a technology journalist, addressed Amazon directly via ...
Dispute Erupts Between Amazon and Disney - Wall Street Journal
Amazon, Hachette E-Book Pricing Battle Continues - Wall Street Journal


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Simplifying the Bull: How Picasso Helps to Teach Apple's Style
New York Times
In a class at the company's internal training program, the so-called Apple ... Steven P. Jobs established Apple University as a way to inculcate ... the iPod and its iTunes software compatible with Microsoft's Windows system. ... The Google TV remote serves as a counterexample; it had so many buttons, ...


Reuters
White House Picks Engineer From Google To Fix Sites
New York Times
White House Picks Engineer From Google To Fix Sites ... even Mr. Obama's government — with a leadership that embraced technology to win ... often have when they spend their mornings on Facebook, Amazon or Expedia. ... Mr. Dickerson, who was part of the team that helped keep Google's servers ...


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How to send Facebook messages without the Messenger app
CNET
Not happy that Facebook now forces you to use its Messenger app? ... It reminds me of when Apple ripped podcast management out of the Music app ...

Busted: 5 Myths About Facebook's Messenger App - ABC News
Don't Freak Out About the Facebook Messenger App - Mashable


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Apple factory in Mesa ramps up sapphire production
azcentral.com
GT Advanced Technologies is ramping up sapphire glass production for Apple at its factory in Mesa. Here are seven products that typically use the ...

Google is Backing a $300 Million High-Speed Internet Cable: "Google has announced it is backing plans to build and operate a new high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system called “FASTER” by Q2 2016. In addition to Google, the $300 million project will be jointly managed by China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI, and SingTel, with NEC as the system supplier...."

If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, 'We're F**ked': Climatologist | Motherboard: ""We are 'sniffing' methane," Ulf Hedman, the science coordinator of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, wrote in a post highlighted by Climate Change SOS. "We see the bubbles on video from the camera mounted on the CTD or the Multicorer. All analysis tells the signs. We are in a Mega flare. We see it in the water column, we read it above the surface, and we follow it up high into the sky with radars and lasers. We see it mixed in the air and carried away with the winds. Methane in the air."  "Methane is more than 20 times more potent than CO2 in trapping infrared as part of the natural greenhouse effect," Box said. "Methane getting to the surface—that's potent stuff." "

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Humans, Robots, Asimov's Laws

Yes, we NEED Asimov's Laws --

Do We Need Asimov's Laws? | MIT Technology Review: "In 1942, the science fiction author Isaac Asimov published a short story called Runaround in which he introduced three laws that governed the behaviour of robots. The three laws are as follows:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
He later introduced a fourth or zeroth law that outranked the others:
0. A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm...." (read more at the link above)

Free phone service FreedomPop unveils $20 'Unlimited' plan - CNET: "Firm launches paid "Unlimited Everything" plan, adds LTE phones to offerings to mark its move to Sprint's LTE network."

U.S. may act to keep Chinese hackers out of Def Con hacker event | Reuters: "....Washington could use such visa restrictions and other measures to keep Chinese from attending the August Def Con and Black Hat events to maintain pressure on China after the United States this week charged five Chinese military officers with hacking into U.S. companies to steal trade secrets...."

Apple, Google, Intel And Adobe Settle The Employee Rip Off Suit
Forbes
Apple Apple, Google Google, Intel Intel and Adobe have agreed to settle the civil suit alleging that they ripped off their employees by having ...

Microsoft Surface Pro 3: 10 Tablets Paved Its Way
InformationWeek
About 40% of Americans own a tablet or e-reader, but that didn't happen overnight. These 10 devices shaped the evolution of the modern tablet.

Apple hits 52-week high as Beats buzz builds
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Apple Inc. shares hit a 52-week high Friday as the company geared up for its big developer conference and ...

Amazon plays hardball -- and puts the hurt on consumers
CNET
If the average Amazon-loving book buyer were to go to the company's ... said had conspired with Apple to fix e-book prices in an attempt to keep Amazon from ... In a post on Facebook titled "Four of the most important paragraphs I'll ever ... ComparingMicrosoft's Surface Pro 2 to the new Surface Pro 3.

Apple iPhone 5c 8GB launched in India for Rs 37500: Will Apple's new gamble pay off?
Firstpost
Finally, Apple has launched the 8GB version of its iPhone 5C in India for Rs 37,500, a move aimed at capturing a larger share of the burgeoning ...

Google Glass Fans Fight Restaurant Ban With Bad Reviews
Mashable
It's only been a few months since the infamous anti-Google Glass bar incident in San Francisco, and now it looks like some users of the device are ...

Microsoft Fought the FBI, But the FBI Won
Top Tech News
Government requests like those from the FBI for Microsoft's enterprise customer data are extremely rare, so the firm says it seldom has to litigate ...

Apple looking to ban sale of Samsung products
CNET
Early-May trial verdict found Samsung infringed three Apple mobile patents. Apple ...Apple is looking to ban the sale of Samsung gadgets yet again.

Apple iPhone 6 is coming: What you should know
USA TODAY
Going into an iPhone launch there's never much doubt about whether Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL ) latest addition to the key lineup will sell better than its ...

Meteor shower disappoints stargazers, but not too much
Washington Post
All in all, many people suggested, it was better to have searched for meteors early Saturday morning and not seen them than never to have looked at all. Published reports had indicated that a cascade of shooting stars might streak through the morning skies ...

Roombots Self-Assemble into Furniture
EE Times
PORTLAND, Ore. -- In what the lead researcher calls a "crazy" project conjoins dual round robots with three degrees-of-freedom--called Roombots -- which self-assemble into the type of furniture of your choice. Conceived at the Biorobotics Laboratory ...

Aliens Exist And Will Be Found Pretty Soon, Say Scientists
Forbes
It used to be that if you asked an astronomer if there was intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, you'd get some sort of hedged response involving the vastness of the universe and statistical probabilities that you'd expect from a diligent scientist. I've asked ...

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