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U.S. Being Left In The Dust Of The Global Telecommuting Revolution

Written by: David Hill 2 days ago

The workplace of the future is closer than you think.

A recent poll from Ipsos/Reuters shows the extent of workplace evolution as well as the fallout of globalization. Nearly 1 [...]

Computer Interfaces

The First Kickstarter Project to Raise $2 Million is an Adventure Video Game!

Written by: Aaron Saenz 3 days ago

Doublefine raises millions

The future of video games is in the hands of the crowd…and it looks like it’s going to be a [...]

Computer Interfaces

Free Facial Recognition With KLIK: Point Your Phone At Friends, It Knows Who They Are

Written by: Aaron Saenz 5 days ago

klik feature

I never forget a face. Neither, apparently, does my iPhone. KLIK, the exciting new app from Face.com, can automatically recognize [...]

Computer Interfaces

Scientists Use Brain Waves To Eavesdrop On What We Hear

Written by: Peter Murray 8 days ago

This X-ray/CT scan shows the placement of electrodes over the temporal lobe that scientists used to decode what the patient was hearing.

The day we can scan a person’s brain and “hear” their inner dialogue just got closer. Scientists at the University [...]

Computer Interfaces

Latest Game In The Star Wars Universe Cost $200 Million, Inspires Millions To Envision The Post-Singularity World

Written by: David Hill 9 days ago

Star Wars: The Old Republic immerses players in a universe that's an even longer time ago far, far away.

On December 20, 2011, a new chapter in the Star Wars universe was unleashed on the world. After 5 years in [...]

Computer Interfaces

Can A Free Online Education Land You A Job? The Era Of Online Education Dawns

Written by: David Hill 10 days ago

The seats are empty, but class is in session with MIT's OpenCourseWare.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently announced an initiative to create a learning platform for online education. Preliminarily dubbed [...]

Computer Interfaces

Google’s Eric Schmidt On Collective Intelligence: “In God We Trust…But All Others Bring Data”

Written by: Aaron Saenz 17 days ago

Eric Schmidt

There are few people in the world with a resume like Eric Schmidt. Just finishing his decade long run as [...]

Computer Interfaces

All Your Bandwidth Are Belong To Us: Half Of World’s Bandwidth Consumed By Only 1% of Users

Written by: David Hill 23 days ago

The most extreme smartphone users are eating up the network extremely well.

It’s tough being an avid mobile device user these days. First, carriers tempt you with the latest feature-packed devices while [...]

Computer Interfaces

Need a New Assistant? Evi Makes a Bid to Replace Siri on iPhone and Android

Written by: Aaron Saenz 25 days ago

evi feature

When the iPhone 4S arrived last fall, one of the most talked about, and lauded, features was Siri, the virtual [...]

Computer Interfaces

Sebastian Thrun Aims to Revolutionize University Education With Udacity

Written by: Peter Murray 26 days ago

Will online education bring about the end of 'class as usual?'

This past August fellow Singularity Hub writer Aaron Saenz wrote about Udacity, the online university created by Stanford artificial intelligence [...]

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iRobot CEO Discusses Their New Robot AVA

Written by: Peter Murray 28 days ago

iRobot CEO, Colin Angle, with AVA.

We found this video from CNNMoney, about AVA, iRobot’s latest personal assistance robot. We’ve covered AVA before, how it’s basically [...]

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Apple’s iBooks Praises Begin To Wither As Skepticism Settles In

Written by: David Hill 30 days ago

iBooks 2 promises a digital textbook revolution, but it's more mainstream than it appears.

Apple started off 2012 with the $10 billion textbook market in its crosshairs. Last week, the company unveiled iBooks 2, [...]

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Raspberry Pi Founder Eben Upton Walks You Through the Launch of the $35 Computer

Written by: Aaron Saenz 31 days ago

Raspberry Pi Upton

In just a few weeks UK’s Raspberry Pi Foundation will be ready to launch one of the most anticipated products [...]

Debate Central

Aren’t we already innudated by previous alien singularity fields? Why not?

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gahlinger

We are indeed 'innudated' by aliens -- perhaps this undefined term is perfect to describe the equally undefined nature of these singularity fields.

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Matthew

to clarify; i agree that absurd was not the best word choice. no scientific question is absurd, no matter how irrelevant or inapplicable it seems. even if [...]

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IvoryTowerScientist

I can not help but think if singularity-level civilizations had come to Earth and seen human civilization in the past ten thousand years they might have stepped [...]