2015년 1월 30일 금요일

The Switch: Innovations: The case for not banning drone flights in the Washington area

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Innovations: The case for not banning drone flights in the Washington area
The irony of living in the District of Columbia just keeps getting richer. Residents of the capital of the world’s leading democracy already have no voting representatives in Congress. Now their ability to fly drones — restricted to a level unmatched across the United States — is about to get even more limited.  Read full article »
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Producteev: Manage groups from your desktop or mobile device
ProducteevManage groups from your desktop or mobile deviceManaging groups is never easy, and there’s a ton of software out there aimed at helping you do it better. One that rises from the pack is Producteev, a mobile and desktop program that lets you easily assign tasks, coordinate work and keep a top-level view of what’s going on with your project. The app is surprisingly full-featured and easy to use for a free product. Users can assign tasks to different team members, get notifications when something is due or has been done, and tag tasks by category.  Read full article »
1+2=3: Try some mental math in a race against the clock
1+2=3Try some mental math in a race against the clockArithmetic has never been so infuriating. “1+2=3” is a math puzzle game that limits itself to asking players to solve equations that only involve those three numbers, against the clock. That may sound easy enough, and it is when you’re zipping through “1+1=?” and “3-2=?”. But even adding a couple of links to the chain – “3-1+2-3=?” for example — can give you just enough pause to run down the timer. (Or flummox you enough to tap on the wrong answer.)   Read full article »
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Verizon Wireless to allow customers to actually opt-out of controversial supercookie tracking
Verizon Wireless said Friday that it will allow customers to opt out of having the company's controversial tracking code inserted into their Web traffic.The company previously offered a way for customers to opt-out of having their data used in its online advertising program. But the company continued to insert a unique code into their Web traffic, angering civil liberties groups who said the technology could be used to track customers movements on the Internet -- even if they took steps to protect their privacy. Now, the company is taking steps to give users more control.  Read full article »
The Switchboard: The FCC’s new definition of broadband
Published every weekday, the Switchboard is your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team.Join us today for our weekly live chat, Switchback. We'll kick things off at 11 a.m. Eastern. You can submit your questions now, right here.  Read full article »
Innovations: Positive computing: The tech buzzword you need to know for 2015
We usually think about technology making us smarter, more productive or more social — but not always more compassionate, wiser or happier. The “positive computing” movement, championed by Rafael Calvo and Dorian Peters of the University of Sydney, hopes to change all that. Supporters of positive computing make the case that technology should contribute to well-being and human potential. And that’s a message that’s starting to attract interest in places such as MIT, Stanford and Google.  Read full article »
Ritholtz: Uber just the latest tech firm to disrupt an industry with forward-thinking
There are many lessons to be learned from Uber, the taxi- and car-hailing start-up that came out of nowhere and is valued at $41 billion. Less than three years ago, Uber had zero drivers. Now it has more than 160,000 active drivers who have collected $656.8 million in net fares (net of what they pay Uber).   Read full article »
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Amazon actually made money this quarter. That’s enough to make its stock go nuts.
Amazon reported a quarterly profit of $214 million Thursday, besting its own estimates and surprising investors. The news was enough to send the company's stock up more than 13 percent to about $350 in after-hours trading.  Read full article »
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