Some doctors, bird watchers, and others still use pagers due to their simplicity; paging company Spok has 800K+ pagers in use in the US, down from 6.6M in 2004
Fans, including some doctors and bird watchers, appreciate the simplicity of the once-popular devices, even as others move on LinkedIn: Tom Wriggins and Greg Coticchia Tweets: @rmc031 , @stefaniei , @...
An investigation details Twitter's business in China: local governments and state media buying ads, a growing non-US revenue stream, internal tensions, and more
Even as China bars 1.4 billion citizens from Twitter, its local authorities are splurging on global advertising on the site … Tweets: @niubi , @mattnavarra , @780thc , @olivertheyoung , @aparanjape , ...
Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company's approach to robotics for commercial applications
Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum : Tweets: @pranavab47 , @aparanjape , @mouserelec , @kaeshour , and @helengreiner Tweets: Pranav Bhounsule / @pranavab47 : Boston dynamics does not use machine learning ...
Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company's approach to robotics for commercial applications
Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum : Tweets: @aparanjape , @mouserelec , @kaeshour , @pranavab47 , and @helengreiner Tweets: Amit Paranjape / @aparanjape : By now, most of you would have seen those amazin...
An in-depth look at the feasibility, progress, and experts' opinions of lidar-based vs Tesla-like camera-only approaches to fully autonomous cars
“They're all going to dump lidar,” Musk said about self-driving rivals in April. — Lots of companies are working to develop self-driving cars. Tweets: @arstechnica , @aparanjape , and @ghosthayes Tw...
Inside DARPA's neurotechnology research program for healing and enhancement of the human body and mind through neural implants and brain-machine interfaces
I. Who Could Object? — “Tonight I would like to share with you an idea that I am extremely passionate about,” the young man said. Tweets: @theatlantic , @scalzi , @kelly2277 , @cstross , @rosannecas...