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Developmental robotics: the cute baby robot who will grow up to be just like you

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We are at the cusp of a new phase of robotics, where some of what has been promised to us for decades will come to fruition. An example of this is the iCub , a humanoid baby robot that can learn, emulating human cognition and development. This is the field of ‘developmental robotics’: creating robots that can learn and develop their capabilities over time.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

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'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. By Werner Vogels on 01 March 2011 10:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan.

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When will tablets be given away for free? Perhaps before the end of this year

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When we launched our Newspaper Extinction Timeline I noted that tablets similar to the iPad of today will cost less than $10 and given away for free by the end of the decade, a prediction that interviewers have frequently questioned me on since. . I have since realized that tablets are likely to be given away far earlier than this, probably first bundled with content subscriptions.

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Six trends for 2011 and beyond on how businesses can tap the power of the web

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The very dynamic Adam Franklin and Toby Jenkins of Bluewire Media recently did a video interview of me, asking me about the trends driving how the web will shape business. Here is the video, with a summary of my headline points below. (Also see Bluewire Media’s original post of the video , which has my comments written up in greater detail.). What do you see the future of the web being for businesses?

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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We will need better filters as spurious news explodes: the curious case of the king of Saudi Arabia buying Facebook

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Earlier today ‘satirical’ website DawnWires published a story titled Saudi King to buy Facebook for $150 billion to end the revolt: Goldman Sachs to advise. The article was published in the LoLNews category, and the bottom of it says “Sunday Humor… (Sunday Humor article at Dawnwires.com are meant to humor our readers. They may or may not be the truth.)&#.

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From the Archives - Gapingvoid's Nobody Cares - All Things.

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'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. From the Archives - Gapingvoids Nobody Cares. By Werner Vogels on 27 February 2011 11:28 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). While cleaning out the digital attic I ran into this drawing that Hugh MacLeod (aka "gapingvoid") made for me in reponse to a storm-in-a-teacup about blogging Amazon.

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