The Tomorrow Weblog

Thursday, September 2, 2010

A Phonebook For The 21st Century

Claire Cain Miller, New York Times

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Bringing Cell-Phone Location-Sensing Indoors

Tom Simonite, Technology Review

Beacons smaller than a person's hand fixed to a store's ceiling beam out an ultrasound signal at a frequency that can be picked up by a cell phone's microphone but not by human ears.

Advances Offer Path To Shrink Computer Chip

John Markoff, New York Times

Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory that has been the basis for the consumer electronics revolution.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Don't Tell The Creative Department, But Software Can Produce Ads, Too

Stiart Elliott, New York Times

For decades — maybe even since computers began arriving in workplaces in the 1960s — there have been predictions that machines will be able to perform the creative tasks that usually require human beings. An agency in Paris is offering a new twist on those venerable forecasts, to make a point about the creative process.

By Heng-Cheong Leong

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