Another Apple Design Flub, Cruz Campaign Is Tech-Savvy

By December 16, 2015Bitcoin Business

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Secom’s Internet of Things security drone has a neat twist: it not only records images of intruders but it will actually chase them to get better pictures of faces or license plates. There is one unfortunate catch. The drone has a maximum speed of just 6 mph… As if parenting teens wasn’t tough enough, Microsoft might build a life size hologram of virtual assistant Cortana for its augmented reality headset … Apple’s new battery case is ugly, like Quasimodo ugly but it’s still just a battery case. Given the response online you would think Cupertino did something truly terrible like insert popup ads in the App Store or something. Oh, wait, it did do that … If you’ll just ignore the politics of it all, the Cruz for President campaign is a technological marvel complete with state of the art data and behavioral science research and even “geo-fencing” for clever micro targeting campaigns. Think of the possibilities if Cruz actually believed in science … Some guy spent two years of his life painstakingly screen-scraping every single episode of the campy 1966 TV show ‘Batman’ so he could catalog all of the weird labels. C’mon, of course Catwoman straddling a shiny purple rocket pointed at an open window is a ‘getaway rocket’…

Self-Driving Cars: Lidar, the $75k gadget that allows Google’s self-driving cars to see the road – it’s the goofy looking bump on the roof above – is getting a big price cut. New $250 units could mean autonomy for almost every car. Read at Washington Post here

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