Reach For The Stars

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

NASA is crowdsourcing the search for exoplanets

To those of you who dream of going to space: Sorry, but that may never happen. However, NASA is once again counting on the public for help understanding what’s beyond our world. All we have to do is look at some photos online. Today marks the launch… http://dlvr.it/NNnlVr

Navigate the Jungle of Tech Ecosystems

How Apple, Google and Microsoft are racing to control your digital life—from phone to home-automation system

Which digital ecosystem will you choose?

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

Edward Felten (via fyp-science)

Each person in the world (at least among the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook) is connected to every other person by an average of three and a half other people.

Sergey Edunov, Carlos Diuk, Ismail Onur Filiz, Smriti Bhagat, and Moira Burke. Research at Facebook. Feb 4, 2016.

Analyzing Apple’s Argument That First Amendment Applies to Its Code

The company, in its fight with the F.B.I., is defending its phones on grounds that its code represents free speech, and there is some precedent.

“Apple goes pretty far by saying its software has a viewpoint,” said Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law. “That’s pretty novel here. But this case is unprecedented, so we shouldn’t be surprised by novel defenses.”

Vrse

Experience the best in Virtual Reality storytelling directly on your computer, smart phone, or VR headset.

Ready for virtual reality? Grab your Google Cardboard headset, download the Vrse app for iOS or Android, download individual videos, and then insert the phone into the viewer to experience them.

An Expanding Universe of Space Apps

While becoming an astronaut is out of reach for most of us, there are plenty of apps that can take your mind on a journey to the final frontier.

Space apps ... the final frontier.

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Buddha   (via quotemadness)

Immersive Insights: IBM’s AR Data Visualization Tool at SXSW – Medium

The IBM is making space at SXSW from March 10–14 showcased dozens of projects in AI, robotics, VR, AR, and other emerging technology fields. My team and I had the fortunate opportunity to demo our AR project, Immersive Insights.

Immersive Insights aims to be a tool that provides data scientists with insights to large-scale data through a spatial visualization experience. While the demo is still in an early stage, we have real-time data streaming to the headset and displayed in 3D, fully manipulable and scalable. It is also our way to begin exploring, creating and refining the next generation of enterprise applications for data analysis.

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