Great overview, insight into the thinking behind Google+ …. ‘A Techwise Conversation with Google+ designer Joseph Smarr’ — IEEE Spectrum podcast
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The Unified Field Theory of Google
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When Patents Attack! - This American Life
"Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries."
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Area 51 ‘Uncensored’: Was It UFOs Or The USSR?
"The child-sized aviators in this craft [that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico] were the result of a Soviet human experimentation program, and they had been made to look like aliens a la Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds, and it was a warning shot over President Truman’s bow, so to speak."
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Hypercritical (5x5): A Cautionary Tale
John Siracusa: how Apple’s expansion into so many new businesses has created a series of conflicts of interest that could, at best, doom it to Microsoft-like stagnation in the long run.
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On the Media: Our Future with Technology
"As computers become smarter (and smaller), there’s a good chance that in the future, the lines between humans and computers will begin to blur. What does that mean for our essential humanness? Clive Thompson, Jamais Cascio, Jaron Lanier and Ray Kurzweil discuss a future where machines can think like humans and people become one with the web."
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Have We Grown Too Fond Of Technology?
In her book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, Sherry Turkle examines our proclivity for robots, smart phones and social networks, and though far from suggesting we ditch technology, she wonders if we aren’t losing out on human contact in the process.
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The Googlization of Everything. (UC Press Podcast)
Talk re: the new book ‘The Googlization of Everything.’
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Gruber, Engst, Moren on the Mac’s future
John Gruber, Adam Engst, and Dan Moren join Jason Snell for a discussion of the Mac’s future, on stage at Macworld 2011 in San Francisco.
http://www.macworld.com/article/157507/2011/01/mwpodcast228.html
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Defining a Data Deluge
From overflowing inboxes to portable players brimming with music, the amounts of data in the world are increasing. Martin Hilbert, co-author of a paper in the journal Science on the tidal wave of information, says that in 2007, humanity was able to store some 295 exabytes of information, but that’s just a pittance compared with the amounts of data stored in the natural world.
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IBM Computer Faces Off Against ‘Jeopardy’ Champs
Four years in the works, IBM’s supercomputer "Watson" will compete against Jeopardy! champions from Feb. 14-16. To win, the computer will have to process often-ambiguous natural language, including irony and wordplay. Stephen Baker, author of Final Jeopardy, talks about Watson’s chances.
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