This tweet from Benedict Evans sums it up for me:
If you think voice UIs are the future, verbally describe, aloud, everything you see and touch on your phone today.
— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 12, 2017
Click through to read the replies to his tweet as well – people’s views are weird sometimes.
It’s getting closer and closer via BBC Technology’s post commenting on a European Parliament draft report from in May 2016: The report suggests that robots, bots, androids and other manifestations of artificial intelligence are poised to “unleash a new industrial revolution, which is likely to leave no stratum of society untouched”. and This could, if not properly prepared...
Via VentureBeat:
App.net will cease to exist on March 14, citing an inability to generate meaningful revenue and failure to gain attention of developers and users.
Wow. I had no idea it was still going.
When I initially read about a surgeon using Snapchat Spectacles to livestream a surgery I was ready to take the piss. But it actually turns out to be fascinating. And useful – all his students could watch it on their phones.
Here’s the another he’s done – with context – which he posted on YouTube:
I’ve often wondered why I don’t often see dead birds – and especially now that we’ve moved and our apartments is surrounded by lovely birds all the time. Turns out the answer is sad, and beautiful, thanks to Marie Hulett’s post from 2014. In summary, from Marie’s post: Generally, animals sense when they are not doing well, and seek out well-concealed, off-the...
I like Tim Urban’s way of thinking about your day. You have 100 blocks of 10 minutes each.
What will you do with your blocks?
via Wait, But Why.
btw here’s Tim speaking at Inbound 2016:
One thing I admire about Americans is how in touch they seem to be with their feelings. It seems that you can go up to a random stranger in the street, ask them about how they feel about something, and they take less than a second to respond with an articulate summary of their considered feelings on the matter. Me, I’m at the opposite end of the spectrum. It usually takes me a few days to...
Not using Slack yet? If not, why not. Here’s how a science lab uses Slack to replace email and increase collaboration. When geneticist Daniel MacArthur checks into his lab, the first thing he does is fire up Slack, a workplace messaging app. In the system, he zips through the hundreds of messages and files left in different channels by the lab’s 23 scientists — some reporting on...
What else do you need, when you have a post like this about a rescue goat that has anxiety and only calms down when she wears her cute little duck suit. And she’s called Polly. There’s more cute pictures on The Dodo here. And there’s this: Cute video by @thedodo 😘 A video posted by Goats of Anarchy (@goatsofanarchy) on Dec 14, 2016 at 12:33pm PST See also: Goats of...
Fascinating article from Nir Eyal on new findings related to willpower. Over the past decades the theory of ego-depletion had gained traction: Psychological researchers have a name for this phenomenon: it’s called “ego depletion.†The theory is that willpower is connected to a limited reserve of mental energy, and once you run out of that energy, you’re more likely to lose self-control...