“According to the BusinessWeek article, Wal-Mart has developed an app that "scans the social media preferences of a consumer’s Facebook friends and suggests gift ideas sold on Walmart.com. To roll out more such innovations, Wal-Mart must improve its in-house e-commerce technology, so [Jeremy King, formerly of eBay, and now chief technology officer, @WalmartLabs] will hire 87 engineers and coders to bolster the links between the stores and the website."”
“The physicist Niels Bohr once defined an expert as “a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” Bohr’s quip summarizes one of the essential lessons of learning, which is that people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again. Education isn’t magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure. ”
""You're going to feel a slight tingle," he says, and warns me that if I remove an electrode and break the connection, the voltage passing through my brain will blind me for a good few seconds.”
“LexisNexis has a product called Accurint for Law Enforcement, which gives government agents information about what people do on social networks.”
Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera // Jonas Pfeil
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