Microsoft is not a company that has been known for a particularly sharp sense of humor, at least in recent years. Yes, occasionally the company and comedyhave been aligned, but Microsoft makes too much money off the enterprise sector to be wonky. But that doesn’t mean that in the company’s past things were not a bit more fun. The image below is of the ‘Hot Dog Stand’ theme for Windows 3....
Worml works a lot likeAirDrop, the file sharing app that comes built-in to OS X Lion. But instead of being limited to just local WiFi networks, it will allow you to send and receive files to and from any computer anywhere. Worml [$4.99, Mac App Store] is simple from the start. You just install the app, sign up for an account and add a friend who also has Worml to your account list....
Artificial intelligence is already making decisions in the fields of business, health care and manufacturing. But AI algorithms generally still get help from people applying checks and making the final call. What would happen ifAIsystems had to make independent decisions, and ones that could mean life or death for humans? Pop culture has long portrayed our general distrust of AI. In the 2004 sci-fi movieI, Robot, detective Del Spooner (played by Will Smith) is suspicious of robots after being rescued by one from a car crash, while a 12-year-old girl was left to drown....
Many Apple device owners have been up in arms afterit was confirmedthat Apple iPhones (and iPads that are 3G-enabled) are being tracked — at least since the update to iOS 4. The tracking feature was discovered Pete Warden and Alisdai Allan, creating an open-source application callediPhone Tracker, which can map the information on a user’s iPhone or 3G-ready iPad. They found the movement tracking almost by accident, and they hypothesized that the data is readily available on users’ machine — in a very readable form....
Off the top of your head, could you name the best way in which you could get in touch with Chris Sacca for a business deal? How about Chamillionaire? What if you just wanted to find someone to play some football with in your network? While there are millions of connections that we have spread across numerous sites, there hasn’t been a very good way to interpret those connections in a meaningful way....
