Hmmm,
Steve Ballmer says Twitter has a great brand and lots of room to improve the product and the company’s cost structure.
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Watch An Artificial Chameleon Change Color
Chameleons are masters at rapidly changing the color of their skin to camouflage themselves or communicate with others. Scientists worldwide have long sought to mimic the skins of these reptiles to render people effectively invisible with chameleon suits.
Now a mechanical chameleon from China can change color to almost every hue in the visible spectrum with the aid of bumps made of gold and silver on its skin, researchers say. The scientists published their work this past month in the journal ACS Nano.
Will Retail Stores Of The Future Be Run By Robots?
Will Retail Stores of the future include robots as service/ floor reps & cashiers as reps — I believe so.
SoftBank gives preview Of robotic retail with Pepper, its humanoid robot.
Is our new tech-savvy customer base ready for robotic sales associates? Japanese tech firm SoftBank says yes, and offers its humanoid robot, Pepper, as an example.
Softbank is launching an online app store for Pepper, a robot that can read and respond to human emotions. The company also plans to open four new Pepper for Biz Atelier retail stores that will allow enterprise prospects to see the robots in action.
Star Trek Philosophy: “I know you’re a computer-generated image, but you seem so real.”
“I know that you’re a computer-generated image, but your smell, your touch, the way you feel, even the things you say and think seem so real.” — Commander William Riker.
Serious Wonder looks at various episodes of Star Trek to unlock their future-oriented humanist philosophy. — B.J. Murphy for Serious Wonder.
Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish
It takes 100 attoseconds for a krypton electron to respond to light. That might not seem like much, but someday it could limit the speed of optoelectronic circuits.
