Arquivo para a ‘Framework’ Categoria
Accessibility for all
27
Jul
How many facilities modern technology has 
brought, imagine now spend the day without using your smartphone with touch screen, or without being able to use the mouse. You could still do his job? That’s how many disabled people feel.
Accessibility Difficulties prevent millions of people to use a basic technology for business and pleasure, so it seems a good idea to build products that address these issues, ie make functional products for the disabled is already an afterthought, say a newscast of the Washington Post, but on thursday many companies announced a novelty.
Several companies, including Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn and Dropbox announced Thursday that they will develop a standard language that allows users known that will have new accessibility knowledge to get a job.
The move is part of a larger program called “Accessibility Education“: a joint effort between the disability advocates, schools and industries of the technology to make technology accessible to all from the beginning.
The initiative arose from discussions organizations were already using a technology forum created by the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), where representatives meet regularly to talk about doing the most visible accessibility issues in the technology world .
A set of procedures for job description may still not seem like much, but sends a signal to prospective universities on knowledge of accessibility issues is a big deal, he told American newspaper, Henry Claypool, a consultant on disability issues and former -vice executive president of the AAPD.
Moon walk and eco-tech
07
Jul
Called James´s reserves, It is 30 acres south of the mountain ranges 
San Jacinto in Southern California, it is closed to the public, outside the circuit and cars are not allowed. But Sean Askay as a graduate student at UCLA in 2005, used Google Earth to create a visual interface for all cameras and sensors that are present in the park and are a lab studies for biologists, scientists in general and to commercial researchers. Sean calls this area “one of the most heavily instrumented places in the USA ‘, there to bird nests has automated cameras and sensors themselves spying on them. The station is a research field for biologists, being supervised by the University of California, Riverside, but virtual Askay the entire reservation, “she said to Wired magazine,” You can ‘fly’ and look at live video and graphics interior temperature of a bird box took the experience even further, using Google Earth to create a visual interface for all aqueusando all them cameras and sensors. “Basically, I built a representation.” Its design drew attention of the first designer of the Internet protocols Vint Cerf, and in 2007, one of the creators of the Google project and convinced Askay to move to Mountain View, California. Now Google Earth is creating an extraordinary software service combining satellite photos and other images to create a digital window on our planet (and other celestial bodies). Among other things he created a spacewalk next to Buzz Aldrin to reminding the moon landing Apollo 11, on arrival history of man on the moon in 1968 years.
Apple launched the music streaming in Brazil
01
Jul
It was officially launched yesterday (30/06) Apple’s music streaming service in Brazil, according to Ian Rogers, director of the Apple Music. , The first transmission however was scheduled for Tuesday the 13 hs.
The program was directed by DJ Zane Lowe, who just interviewed ENINEM rapper, but Pharrell Williams, Elton John, Drake and other musicians were present at fast online Apple Music.
According to Apple’s senior vice president, iTunes Match users can use the application from the Apple Music, this means that libraries have made are not lost.
Initially the Apple Music will be free during the first three months of use, won the trial period, the monthly payment shall rotate at $ 9.99 but it seems to be half Brazilian $ 4.99 to be the price of the service.
Nothing against or in favor of PAID music service from Apple, just that there is a change.
BBC develops remote control with the mind
29
Jun
Em parceria com a empresa This Place, a divisão de projetos digitais da
BBC desenvolveu em conexão com os conteúdos uma plataforma chamada iPlayer, a partir da qual pode-se quais programas assistir por meio de um aparelho que lê ondas cerebrais do espectador. Segundo Cyrus Saihan, chefe de desenvolvimento de negócios da divisão digital, em entrevista divulgada no site da BBC, o primeiro teste foi feito com dez funcionários da BBC e conseguiram usar e acionar o iPlayer, iniciando a transmissãod e um programa da TV. Saihan explicou, conforme o site, que este tipo de tecnologia poderá ser usada por pessoas com tenham algum tipo de deficiência que impeçam de usar o controle remoto. Ainda segundo ele, o o protótipo foi “feito para dar a quem faz nossa programação, nossos especialistas em tecnologia e outros usuários uma ideia de como isso poderá ser usado no futuro”, disse em entrevista ao site.
In partnership with the company this place, the digital arm of BBC projects developed in connection with the contents of a platform called iPlayer, from which one can watch what programs through a device that reads brain waves of the spectator.
According to Cyrus Saihan, head of development of the digital divide business, in an interview published on the BBC website, the first test was made with ten employees of the BBC and were able to use and press the iPlayer, starting transmissãod and a TV program.
Saihan explained, according to the site, that this type of technology could be used by people with have a disability that prevents them from using the remote control.
Also according to him, the the prototype was “made to give those who make our programming, our technology experts and other users an idea of how it can be used in the future,” he said in its interview.
Inventor do celular critica Apps
26
Jun
Mobile phone inventor criticizes Apps Martin Cooper, the creator of the
first mobile “big” Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, told the Motherboard site shared his vision of the future for the technology and says that Apps are not the future for mobile digital technology.
In the interview he recalls that it was AT & T (the state of American telephony) that the concept of cell phone emerged, although the idea was limited, as was thought for use in the car and not as ordinary telephony as it is used today. At that moment mean for Motorola transfer from one location to another problem, namely as if users had a second fixed line, only integrated into the car, he explained to the site: “We believed, and still believed today that freedom means you can talk anywhere. ”
He believes that mobile telephony is still growing and will be as important as the invention of the wheel, but still need a few generations for the resource demonstrate its value, for it is reticent with the millions of applications that are in the virtual stores, which for it is a waste of installing and uninstalling stay functionalities without unified solution.
Suggests that the search for artificial intelligence solutions fail to shame voice assistants like Siri and Cortana and even extensions of Google Now type, which can be seen in tecmundo the reports may be obsolete.
Intelligent agents are happening
16
Jun
In a recent article in CIO Australia, many new jobs are
being proposed to increase the services where intelligent agents can be used, they include: services to tag pictures and verify that these markings popular with users on Facebook, Baidu is working on a technology to put an adjoining voice capacity for its search engine allowing users to chat via smartphones or other devices, the Department of Defense and the Australian Technology Organization is trying a technology with intelligent agents to control autonomous drones operating in sea, land and air mapping using satellite and which seems particularly interesting IBM is training your supercomputer Watson to ask questions of human experts and help them with tasks such as drug discovery and document classification.
The report does not explain much of each of these surveys, but talk show-type question and answer, called Jeopardy in the US, the Watson computer won human.
The idea that we can classify documents and assist the organization in a universe with just enough disorder is a very simple idea because all chaos has an order, and complex because it requires the processing of billions of data, and therefore information, entropy which is a Indeed since the beginning of history but does not address something else that the very idea that it is possible to organize it is also possible to develop a process of self-organization, not automatic but likely to be suggestible and manageable.
Tom Simonite, author of an article in MIT Technology Review, described a test of the new feature Watson, made in the Environment Cognitive Lab of IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York, with a laboratory equipped with a conference room with microphones to listen and convey all what they say in the meeting, the software used there apparently takes all inputs speech and transcribes them in real time to feed it to the computer and Watson did this with various experts.
The area of intelligent agents promises to be the next big disruptive technology of the decade.
Algorithm to paint creative
15
Jun
The paints can be considered depending on the creative influence of currents performers or artists
prior to define creative paints or which are only derived from a determined current, researchers Ahmed and ElGamal Babak Salek Rutger University developed a vision algorithm cyber sorting images.
They used concepts that can be called classemes (classemes) developed in 2559 a list of different types with a vector (a list of parameters) that classifies, which is described in the recent article by MIT Technology Review, USA.
The algorithm consulting a spleen of the art data containing images and notes on about 62,000 works of art and can be seen approaching the ranks of art history, but also showing how contemporary paintings use old features.
The history of the paintings have a large number of similar form of examples that already has previous traces of great influence on those who followed, for example, Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna of 1469 and a child with a pomegranate, Goya 1780, even Monet or crucified Christ, 1865 and so on.
Others paintings are more derived, showing many similarities with those who came before and are therefore considered less creative.
Jott, new media networks?
09
Jun
According to a report of TechCruch, the Jott app that works without a data plan or no Wi-Fi connection
is being appreciated and growing among students of American high school, says co-founder Jared Allgood app.
He says he came half a million active users in March, which means a significant increase for the previous 150,000 active users.
Allgood also said the growth is 15 to 20,000 users a day, which already puts him in the top 75 of Top raking social networking media in the US in March ..
What is the reason for all this? For teens who do not have a data plan or that parents limit access, podeno use their iPods and iPads to exchange a message to others in a closed network if they are in an area of 100 feet or at school.
According to data from Pew Research, about 88 percent of young people of 13-17 years have a mobile phone or smartphone, but not all of them get a data plan or a way to access the Internet during school hours, so this was the boost of new media.
5 predictions that did not happen
22
May
IBM always makes five-year forecasts, before analyzing the 5 of the future (2015), let’s see
if the 5 planned 2015 happened.
1 – Sensors in every corner, comes from the Internet of things technology being called RSSF, there are already some cities, businesses and even smart homes, but in fact this has not happened is a developing technology.
2 Cars “breathe” – the idea is that it can use the air, some kind of fuel and return the air pure mode, drive batteries and transistors allow the drinking devices to recharge the battery, so she breathe oxygen and turn into energy, there are now new types of lithium battery, for example, and electrical but effective use is still a promise.
3 Computers used to “warm” water, energy dissipate computers, and currently in speed range of 5MHz reached the limit of silicon computers, but the lost thermal energy of computers is not “collected” not exploited.
4-3D holograms, technology is under development but is still promising, the problem is both the processing speed, are billion pixels per second to be processed, as the amount of energy expended, no devices on the market only in laboratories, which we are 3D printers already on the market.
5-Intelligent transit, emerge a new intelligent GPS technology that would be able to identify alternative routes for the driver if an accident happens on the way that the user is doing, there were apps like Waze to guide drivers and at Heathrow Airport in England already There intelligent cars, but the streets of London not.
Even with the use of computers as an aid, not even the most advanced intelligence can predict the future, there is unpredictability in history, but it’s not the end of history.
How technology helps Nepal
15
May
The technology was effective in initial help of the first earthquake in Nepal, but the second earthquake two weeks seems to be more cruel, as if the first killed more than 8000 people, the earthquake this time was in regions distances near the town Namche Baazar, which is close to Mount Everest, one of the highest in the world.
What is claimed now is the lack of more comprehensive high-quality maps, especially in remote areas, which means it is necessary to coordinate a series of medical efforts, food and shelter, in more complicated remote areas.
One of the efforts is the Kathmandu Living Labs, that uses many volunteers to create digital maps of the country, signaling the roads, hospitals and other facilities to the aid get faster, the advantage is that now there are these rescue forces in the country, they need access to this information.
You can find coverage of trabalos the KLL (acronym of Living Labs) in various organs of the international press The NY Times, BBC,Nepali Times, My Republica, and Setopati attesting to the validity of laboratory
The site explains that the emphasis of this laboratory is “in is on cutting-edge Web 2.0 and participatory technologies que empower and engage citizens in working with government and development”.
