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September 17, 2014
Logitech Turns The TV Remote Into A Smart Home Controller
Consumers don't always want to use a smartphone app to control their smart home.
The universal remote of the past could control your TV, cable box, DVD player, VCR, and maybe a few other devices. But with the rise of smart homes, the remote is growing up to command connected lights, blinds, locks, and, of course, the entertainment system.
Stressed At Work? New Research Suggests It Isn't Just Your Job
It's your home life, too.
Say you come home at 10 p.m. most nights smelling like a caffeinated zombie. You fall asleep on your couch eating leftovers, and, to your horror, you wake up at 5 a.m. In two hours it's back to the office, to do the same thing all over again.
When Lying Is Good
A new study out of Wharton shows that there are times when lying is actually ethical. Welcome to the age of benevolent deception.
No lie: There are times when not telling the truth is a good thing.
Conquer Insomnia In 6 Weeks? There's An App For That--And It Could Change Your Life
There's plenty of science behind Sleepio, now available on iOS 8, but it's an animated professor that brings users back for weekly sessions.
When Peter Hames complained to doctors about his insomnia, they responded by pulling out a prescription pad. Then came the inevitable: more sleeping pills.
Design Details: The NYT iPad Cooking App Really Zooms
Here's our favorite bit of user interface in the NYT's new iPad Cooking app.
Today, NYT is releasing their new cooking app for iPad. We were impressed by the experience on the desktop, but a small design detail in the iPad version has us smitten: Whenever you tap on a recipe tile, it zooms in seamlessly, as if the recipe were always waiting there on your screen.
Hate Flying? Airbus Filed A Patent For In-Flight VR Helmets To Help You Chill Out
Would you wear it?
Since most people tend to not fly first class, jetting around in a hulking metal contraption in cramped quarters tends to be its own little hell bubble, often requiring the saving graces of tiny bottles of alcohol. Or Vicodin.
Inside Baidu's Plan To Beat Google By Taking Search Out Of The Text Era
In this exclusive interview, Andrew Ng explains why he left Google Brain to head Baidu's deep learning project.
This article contains interviews with Andrew Ng, chief scientist at Baidu; Yoshua Bengio, full professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal; and Edward Grefenstette, Fulford junior research fellow at Somerville College, and an AI Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford.
Following IBM's Lead, SAP Just Opened A Six-Year High School In New York City
Now corporations are running public high schools. But in this case, it'll prepare students for high-demand science and technology careers and maybe even funnel them into a job at the company.
What happens when a corporation helps create a high school?
Steve Wozniak: Hacker, Legend, Boomer
Apple's cofounder talks about the company's birth in exclusive outtakes from a new PBS program.
The PBS series American Masters is doing an special on baby boomers. Directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, "The Boomer List" pays tribute to 19 notable people who happen to have been born between 1946 and 1964, including Samuel L. Jackson, Billy Joel, Kim Cattrall, Rosie O'Donnell, Maria Shriver, David LaChapelle, Amy Tan, and Erin Brockovich.
September 16, 2014
Arizona State University Listens To The Most Spotify Music
Spotify shares data about schools utilizing its streaming music service.
Last semester, music streaming platform Spotify launched a special $4.99 student rate for its premium service. As a result, the company is able to gather some fascinating data about university students' listening habits. Today the company released a list and map, ranking university streaming volumes and outlining preferred genres at different institutions.
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