#intel labs

Princeton Researchers Show How the Brain Breaks down Events

“When you go about your day, you’re continuously assaulted with visual, auditory and other sensory information,” said Christopher Baldassano, an associate research scholar at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute(PNI). “We don’t try to understand our world as the continuous stream that’s coming in, but we break it up into pieces we can understand and remember. The goal of this research was to look…

First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years

In a modern, multicore chip, every core — or processor — has its own small memory cache, where it stores frequently used data. But the chip also has a larger, shared cache, which all the cores can access.

If one core tries to update data in the shared cache, other cores working on the same data need to know. So the shared cache keeps a directory of which cores have copies of which data.

That…

Today at 6:45 PM EDT, watch the free live stream from Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates with arguments for and against: Smart Technology Is Making Us Dumb.

About the debate: Smart technology grants us unprecedented, immediate access to knowledge and to each other-a ubiquitous and seamless presence in everyday life. But is there a downside to all of this connectivity? It's been said that smart technology creates dependency on devices, narrows our world to echo chambers, and impairs cognitive skills through shortcuts and distraction. Are smart tech devices guiding so much of our decision making that we are losing autonomy without even realizing it? Or are these concerns an overstatement of the negative effects of high-tech consumption?

Arguing for the motion:

Nicholas Carr, Author, The Glass Cage: Automation and Us & The Shallows

Andrew Keen, Internet Entrepreneur & Author, The Internet is Not the Answer

Arguing against the motion:

Genevieve Bell, Anthropologist & VP, Intel Labs

Professor Stephen Hawking’s speedy new Intel speech system is built on SwiftKey

Professor Stephen Hawking’s new bespoke communications system uses technology from SwiftKey to assist him in writing and talking. The company’s text prediction technology, similar to what’s found in its consumer…

Read More

We do love to create applications for our reality!  Heading over to Creators Project Blog, an article by Beckett Mufson,” New Mobile App Lets You Create And Send Custom Digital Avatars”. Pocket Avatars, is an application developed to allow users to send 3D video animations with the help of Intel Lab’s facial recognition software, of avatars where the user can attach a personalize voice message.  Now, at first I thought who would use this application and why?  If I had to speculate, I would have to say this is another step in augmenting our reality in how we are connecting to others through hand held devices for amusement.   However, after going a step further in reviewing Pocket Avatars, there is a section on their website about cookies and how their application uses them.  This may be a fun application for users to interact with, however, if you are not mindful and taking the time to read the fine print when using the application, you are agreeing to certain terms and conditions when you install it. We as users need to sometimes need to slow down and read what we are signing up for.  So, If you are like me, who is all about the fine print who goes to the actual website via your computer, verses trying to read any TOS via your cell phone.  Head on over to Pocket Avatar’s Cookies TOS, (links to Intel Labs) in terms of how cookies work and read the fine print! Pocket Avatar goes on record stating that they “may” use the data collected about you that is personally identifiable.  These cookies include those are necessary or strictly enforced for operation of the application , such as functionality for returning user, as well as advertising cookies that record your online activities.