Steve Ballmer Language Analysis: He’s A “People” Person Too
Microsoft‘s CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie spoke at the All Things D D8 conference. In the spirit of fair comparison, we did some thinking about their language, just as we did for Steve Jobs before. Ballmer’s known to be an ebullient and emotionally charged speaker, with a larger-than-life personality—he’s spoken at…
Say Goodbye to Unlimited Wireless Data Plans
While thinking about how AT&T screwed everyone by killing unlimited wireless data, we remembered that we saw this coming a few months ago. Here’s another look at what we already realized back then. You know how you pay a fixed monthly fee for your phone, and can check email and Twitter, surf the web and…
End Zone to War Zone: Pentagon Wants NFL Tech for Battlefield Replays
The Pentagon’s cribbing a play from Monday Night Football, adopting the same instant-replay technology used during games to improve analysis of war-zone video feeds. Harris Corporation, the company behind instant replay for professional football and baseball games, has teamed up with the military on an analysis system that’s already been deployed to several bases, reports…
Lawyers Claim Google Wi-Fi Sniffing ‘Is Not an Accident’
Lawyers suing Google claimed Thursday they have discovered evidence in a patent application that Google deliberately programmed its Street View cars to collect private data from open Wi-Fi networks, despite claims to the contrary. “At this point, it is our belief that it is not an accident,” said Brooks Cooper, an Oregon attorney suing Google…
DNA Logic Gates Could Bring Injectable Biocomputers
DNA-based logic gates that could carry out calculations inside the body have been constructed for the first time. The work brings the prospect of injectable biocomputers programmed to target diseases as they arise. “The biocomputer would sense biomarkers and immediately react by releasing counter-agents for the disease,” says Itamar Willner of the Hebrew University of…