Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 140

Showtime: Spotmatik, “Kilauea Hawaii Eruption”

*Man, drones are coming into their own as surveillance platforms now. Look at what those little expendable guys can do over that red-hot lava.

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Oligarch on the move

*There ought to be a Google map — okay, not Google, they wouldn’t dare — but somebody else, activists maybe, oughta build a map online...

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Augmented World Expo 2018 on the way

*The ninth one, God bless ’em. https://augmentedworldexpo.com/

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Space headaches

*Living in zero gravity is pretty rough on the body. It doesn’t surprise me that astronauts might get “explosive” migraines after blood leaves their lower...

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Augmented Reality: Augmented Images | Google IO 2018

*Well, I’m looking at it, and though I don’t see a lot of art, I do see a heck of a lot of development money.

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Critical Medievalism

*I’m with the program, sister. More Medieval Than Thou Living with Medieval Things: Why We Need a Global Medieval Archaeology By Kathryn Franklin Global Journal...

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Web Semantics: Microsoft Acquires Semantic Machines

*It’s a press release. *It’s a little odd that they blogged it instead of just having Cortana scream it aloud. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018... AI researchers have made...

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Web Semantics: Voice First Fiction

*Better let them, or it, or her, “speak for themselves.” https://voicefirstfiction.com/2018/04... Summary: “Voice first” describes apps that people interact with by speaking and listening. “Voice...

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3DPrinting at Bay Area Maker Faire 2018

*Man, those projects are ambitious. And big. *It’s a long video, but it’s got the new Christoph Laimer 3DPRinted motor in there. He’s a heck...

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Google AIY Kits for Experimenting with Artificial Intelligence

*Just stuff that cloud AI right into the cardboard chassis, kids.

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