An incredibly easy way to invite friends to Google+ has just arrived. According toBalaji Srinivasan, a Google+ Engineer, the company will be rolling out a new feature over the next few days that lets you invite others simply by using a link. Coming soon, when you click the “invite friends” button on the right-hand side of the page, you’ll find a new link that you can IM to friends or post on the web....
Pablos Holman is a well known hacker, inventor and entrepreneur, but he is much more than just that! Pablos will be speaking atTNW2011next week but I did a short interview with him about lasers, spaceships and printable food to get an idea of what we can expect from his talk: Boris:You are a hacker, entrepreneur, researcher, space ship builder and professional mosquito assassin. Am I correct?Pablos:Guilty on all counts. Boris:Tell me about the assassin part…Pablos:Bill Gates asked us to work on inventions to help eradicate Malaria....
TNW Quick Hit: The forthcoming Windows Phone security update that is rumored to be landing onMay 3rdwill be distributed via the Zune software, and will not be sent ‘over the air’ as many had hoped. Zune and Windows Phone handsets do support wireless sync, but so far Microsoft has only distributed software updates via a cabled connection to a PC. Microsoft’sstatement on the matter: “The Windows Phone team is actively working with mobile partners to develop and distribute a mitigation update....
Welcome toAI book reviews, a series of posts that explore the latest literature on artificial intelligence. Recent advances in deep learning have rekindled interest in the imminence of machines that can think and act like humans, or artificial general intelligence. By following the path of buildingbigger and better neural networks, the thinking goes, we will be able to get closer and closer to creating a digital version of the human brain....
Not sure if this is cool or yuck but it certainly is innovative and interesting. SwedishJernhusen, a real estate company is building a train station which will harness the power of the heat given off by commuters into energy. The 1 billion project to refurbish Stockholm’s Central Station will see the heat given off by the daily 200,000 commuters be converted into heating a building near by. Understanding how cell phones arechargedby human body movements is relatively easy to grasp, but how on earth is energy generated from commuters’ body heat?...
