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A pretty useful TED talk.
Whoa. That's all I can say about this.
A comparison of the iPhone 4S's automated assistant. I suppose it's great if you don't know how to start a web search on your iPhone, or know how to call a florist.
iPhone's Siri vs. My Human Assistant - Video Library - The New York Times
Huh. Did not know.
Steve, I'm very disappointed.
Seven or eight years ago, the news broke that Steve Jobs had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but considering it a private matter, he delayed in informing Apple's board, and Apple's board delayed in informing the shareholders. So what. The only delay that really mattered was that Steve, it turned out, had been treating his pancreatic cancer with a special diet and other alternative therapies, prescribed by his naturopath.
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I suppose it wasn't entirely unexpected, but it's a pretty sad situation. I wonder what the future of computing, media, and networking will look like without Jobs' crazily gifted innovation.
It's long been Silicon Valley legend: Jobs and Wozniak built their first commercial product, the Apple 1, in Jobs' parents' garage in 1976. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van to help finance the venture. The primitive computer, priced at $666.66, had no keyboard or display, and customers had to assemble it themselves.The following year, Apple unveiled the Apple II computer at the inaugural West Coast Computer Faire. The machine was a hit, and the personal computing revolution was under way.
Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies - CNN.com
All right! Damn Interesting blog is back! And here's a doozey: The humble banana. Didn't know it was a sterile hybrid, sort of a mule fruit. I thought God designed it for us (haha).
The banana plant is a hybrid, originating from the mismatched pairing of two South Asian wild plant species: Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Between these two products of nature, the former produces unpalatable fruit flesh, and the latter is far too seedy for enjoyable consumption. Nonetheless, these closely related plants occasionally cross-pollinate and spawn seedlings which grow into sterile, half-breed banana plants. Some ten thousand years ago, early human experimenters noted that some of these hybridized Musa bore unexpectedly tasty, seedless fruit with an unheard-of yellowness and inexplicably amusing shape. They also proved an excellent source of carbohydrates and other important nutrients.
Finally, a good show about a bad universe. Starring everyone's favourite bad astronomer, Phil Plait.
Interesting talk on how to fight cancer with strawberries and red wine (and other things).
A beautiful speech. Brings out the emotional atheist in me.
"It's me, Norm and Sam and Sadie's boy"
Researchers have produced human embryos containing DNA from three people, a biotechnological proof-of-principle with profound medical and ethical implications.To accomplish this, chromosomes were taken from one zygote -- the single cell formed when sperm and egg fuse -- and put into a zygote stripped of its original chromosomes, but left with its original mitochondria, which provide each human cell with energy.
As they grew, the resulting embryos contained so-called nuclear DNA -- the 25,000 genes responsible for physical and developmental traits -- from two traditional parents, and mitochondrial DNA from a third.
3-Parent Embryos Could Prevent Disease, But Raise Ethical Issues | Wired Science | Wired.com
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