Digital News
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Washington -
U.S. President Obama has made renewed calls for new ‘big data’ initiatives in relation to health. The announcement ties in with the ‘cancer moonshot’ and ‘personalized medicine’ initiatives.
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Paris -
Even as people the world over symbolically dim lights to fight global warming this Saturday, many will join email and social network campaigns that invisibly contribute to climate change.
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The educational system is entering the digital age, and its tradition-based practices — such as rote memorization of school lessons, academic tenure, and union protections — are giving way to disruptive methods of giving lessons to today's students.
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Indian smartphone firm Ringing Bells is to launch a new handset tomorrow that will cost just $7. The device will make it easier than ever for people to get online, lowering the entry barrier to a new level of affordability.
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A new social network is promising users digital immortality and interaction with intelligent, developing AI visitors. Users will each have an AI representative on the site, making posts in the same style as they would when the real person goes offline.
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Facebook is apparently working on creating its own digital assistant. Unlike Siri, Cortana or anything else, "Moneypenny" will not be focused on productivity but rather something else entirely: shopping.
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A new advanced artificially intelligent robot is seeking funding on Indiegogo. Boasting a unique personality and the ability to talk naturally, Musio wants to be your "curious new friend" with human-level intelligence and the ability to learn information.
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In a video uploaded to the Windows YouTube channel today, Microsoft has announced its digital voice assistant Cortana, already known by Windows Phone fans, will be coming to Android, iOS and PC with the launch of Windows 10 this summer.
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Microsoft released a new build of Windows 10 to Windows Insiders yesterday that includes the company's new web browser to replace Internet Explorer, Project Spartan. The new browser promises to be much faster than IE and built for the modern web.
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Microsoft is going to bring its Cortana voice-controlled digital assistant in an enhanced form to iPhones and Android devices later this year after the launch of Windows 10, directly competing with Siri and Google Now already included on the platforms.
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The advent of the digital era has revolutionized education and learning for millions of children worldwide, enabling greater collaboration between teachers and pupils and bringing education to places where it was never available via virtual classrooms.
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Technologists have shown that information stored as quantum bits can be "exponentially compressed" without losing information. This technological feat will be useful for a new generation of communications and computer storage.
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San Francisco -
With technology advancing, there still is the issue of the 'Digital Divide' where access to the Internet and other services are limited. With the help of City College of San Francisco, Coleman Advocates for Children and others,
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Country Music Hall of Famer Garth Brooks is officially out of retirement. He has inked a record deal with Sony Music Entertainment, according to Sony CEO Doug Morris, and he is going digital with his music.
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San Francisco -
New technologies are set to revolutionize healthcare. Emerging technologies can monitor on-going body biometrics, create remote telemedicine visits, provide electronic access to patient information and undertake 3D body scans.
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Eleven large public relations firms have agreed to clean up the way they interact with Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. Some of the companies have been involved in editing pages to favor their clients via pseudonymous accounts.
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What happens if you're offered the promotion of a lifetime but it's in a different country? To some this'll be a no-brainer but to others, children need to be considered. So what's the best way of ensuring they integrate as well as you do?
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San Francisco -
Living in Digital Times’ Digital Health Summer Summit June 18-20 in San Francisco promises to be an interesting event. Leading industry veterans will provide advice to help start-ups in this emerging, and thriving industry.
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The first ever debit card to allow the transaction of Bitcoins in stores is set to hit the US market very soon, facilitating the usage of Bitcoin in more traditional, everyday scenarios where currency is used.
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York -
Sales of PCs, tablets and internet-ready smartphones are set to go through the roof in the city of York, England as the local council announces a fibre optic network offering speeds of one gigabit.
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You’ve spent the last year rehearsing in your garage with your bandmates and perfecting your sound. Now it’s time to get your band out from behind closed doors and into the public’s eye. But how do you go about doing this?
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Oslo -
It's been known for years now that the future means everything will be digital. For Norway, however, not only will all their books be digital, but they'll be available for free as well.
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Montreal’s experimental art summit will showcase the globe’s most innovative audio and video works from VJ-ing to creating high-tech sensory atmospheres in public spaces.
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Sydney -
The stock market debut of Freelancer.com, the Australian on-line jobs site, has been a success. The share price rose 400 percent on Friday.
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It is the age of the Internet, with all its convenience and opportunity. But as more and more people embrace the World Wide Web, there are emerging challenges that must be considered.
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Some few decades back, businesses would have been run differently. Today, in our digital age, there are a lot of new methods a business must do in order to succeed.
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Austin -
As news continues to transition away from traditional paper platforms, different age groups continue to turn to social media for news.
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As digital audiences and platforms expand in an ever-evolving market, content owners, agencies and advertisers find themselves struggling to manage, share and distribute assets.
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On May 24, 2013, U.S authorities seized control of the LibertyReserve.com domain and redirected it into a sink hole along with arresting the owner Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk in relation to money laundering charges.
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The rise of digital music and the relative decline of the CD continues to be the trend for many countries. In the U.K., digital music now accounts for 1 in 5 purchases.
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Digital Image
File photo of Toronto's Videoflicks store
Jimmy Manning, (b.1951), "Icebergs" - August, 2012, digital chromogenic print. Courtesy of the Artist. Jimmy Manning
This image is straight from the camera with only the size modified to make the image load faster on the Net.
An iPhone charging Bentley Smith
James Freeman, a chief technology officer at Digital Photography Journal
Many images benefit from being "printed." I use Photoshop as my electronic darkroom.
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