Treading Carefully, Google Encourages Developers to Hack Glass
Breaking its own restrictions, Google will show developers how to build any kind of app for Google Glass.
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Augmenting Social Reality in the Workplace
A new line of research examines what happens in an office where the positions of the cubicles and walls—even the coffee pot—are all determined by data.
It’s Time to Talk about the Burgeoning Robot Middle Class
How will a mass influx of robots affect human employment?
China Comes to Silicon Valley at One Startup Accelerator
A year after launch, a startup program is helping U.S. companies reach China—and vice versa.
With Personal Data, Predictive Apps Stay a Step Ahead
Apps that proactively help people with their lives represent a significant departure from earlier approaches to software.
Logging Life with a Lapel Camera
A startup believes people will want a photographic record of their lives, taken at 30-second intervals.
Brooklyn Developer Offers Up His Personal Data on Kickstarter
A man data mined himself to fund an app that helps others sell their own personal data.
Stephen Wolfram on Personal Analytics
The creator of the Wolfram Alpha search engine explains why he thinks your life should be measured, analyzed, and improved.
Has Big Data Made Anonymity Impossible?
As the amount of data expands exponentially, nearly all of it carries someone’s digital fingerprints.
How Today’s Sensors Could Make Tomorrow’s Cars Safer
Sensors in cars today could do more to reduce traffic accidents, and costs are coming down.
