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Have fun with the family tracking Santa with these great solutions! Googles Santa Tracker has some great games and videos. Or you could always go with the solid NORAD Santa Tracker .

This creepy iPhone accessory lets you kiss someone over the internet With all the ridiculous crap that's transpired in 2016, you had to know the day would come when people would start making out with their iPhones. That day has apparently arrived, because the Kissenger, an iPhone accessory that adds a totally-not-creepy-but-actually-horrifying robotic kissing pad, i...

Zappos is struggling with Holacracy because humans aren't designed to operate like software Las Vegas, Nevada "We want to believe that we are thinking, rational people and on occasion tangle with emotion, flick it out of the way, and go back to thinking," renown vulnerability expert Brene Brown told a packed house at the Smith Center in downtown Las Vegas just before Labor Day Weekend.

Talking toys can become your kid's digital friend The Amazon Echo is a device people love to play with, but it's not much of a toy for the kids. These holiday items however are toys first, but are also voice-activated to make playtime interactive.

Education Technology's Inequalities The richest 1% now possess as much wealth as the rest of the world combined. That was the conclusion of an Oxfam report issued in January. It was a slogan of the Occupy Movement too, of course, one reprised this year in the Presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, who would frequently repeat that "Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%."

The White House predicts nearly all truck, taxi, and delivery driver jobs will be automated Like everyone else, the White House isn't entirely sure how automation driven by advancements in artificial intelligence will affect the US economy. But the president's office does feel confident about one thing: the outlook isn't good for people who make their living as drivers.

A fascinating talk on a critical topic by my recent CAL-1 teacher Michael Sahota.

HP Celebrates the Holidays with Pre-CES Techno-fare A few weeks ago, our field nerd crew covered the a holiday event sponsored by HP called "Joy" event at the Terra Gallery in San Francisco. Check out the field report from Eddie Ballar, Ramon Angel and producer Stephen Jang on the cool tech from HP. Enjoy and Happy Holidays! 

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Westworld Privacy Badger Adware/Spyware removers KoalaSafe Rode Podcaster iPhone 6s Plus MealPal Tinycards Google Play vs Amazon Unlimited Amazon Prime Video content Speed Reading Acceleread and Zap Announcement of PO show

Airbus Transpose Envisions The Future of Air Travel - Gear Patrol In-Flight Entertainment In an era when airlines are stripping more and more away - with many, most recently, charging for the use of overhead bins - Airbus is presenting an alternative. Developed by A3, Airbus' California-based innovation arm, Transpose is a concept for a new type of aircraft with plug-and-play interiors, custom tailored to the duration and destination of a particular flight.

Cute Anime Holograph Digital Assistants are Mildly Terrifying I get what they're trying to do here--and I don't like it one bit. Take a look at this "Gatebox Virtual Home Robot" out of Japan: The character's name is Azuma Hikari (her "personality profile" is here) and even after accounting for cultural differences, I find her downright disturbing. While

Experience Design in the Machine Learning Era Traditionally the experience of a digital service follows pre-defined user journeys with clear states and actions. Until recently, it has been the designer's job to create these linear workflows and transform them into understandable and unobtrusive experiences. This is the story of how that practice is about to change.

Education Technology and the 'New Economy' Seymour, as my friend Gary Stager has described him, was the "inventor of everything (good) in education."

Watch Yule Log 2016 Now in its 4th year, Yule Log 2.0 is a collection of short films created by various animation artists that are bringing the Yule Log tradition into the digital age. Now in its 4th year, Yule Log 2.0 is a collection of short films created by various animation artists that are bringing the Yule Log tradition into the digital age.

This big white box will grow marijuana for you At present, over half the states in the country have legalized marijuana either for medical use or recreationally. That clears the way for plenty of small shops to sell the stuff, but growing your own plants at home is still a challenging endeavor for anyone not well-versed in soil, lighting schedul...

What the Robots Are Doing to the Middle Class The simplistic response to the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on employment is that we've experienced this before, during the Industrial Revolution and beyond, and that the "market" will eventually provide plenty of jobs.

Amazon's Alexa now lives in a new lamp from GE It wasn't long after Amazon introduced Echo, its smart Bluetooth speaker powered by the Alexa voice assistant, that it became clear the company was interested in more than just selling Echo. Since then Alexa has found its way into other devices, including a robot vacuum, a smiling robot, and now the first lighting product has been embedded with that helpful, if somewhat monotone voice.

Why Every High School Should Teach A Social Media Class - An Idea For You "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." - Warren Buffet It's time to teach social media to high school students. While some adults who don't understand social media - ironically because they were never taught it -still dismiss it as a novelty or distraction, the reality is social media has become a force of incredible power, change, and business.

The Conundrum of Humdrum Innovation If you're making a digital product or service today, our maturing technology infrastructure makes many ideas more immediately feasible.... Now, in contrast, each component of IDEO's Venn diagram of innovation seems to be enlarging, as Figure 2 shows-especially in the technology sector.

Offboarding: How and How Not to End Relationships with Users | UX Booth Most of us have experienced bad offboarding: the process of leaving a site, when we end up wondering "why on earth is it so hard to just cancel or opt out?" Sarah Khan is here to help businesses understand the value of making offboarding a positive experience.

Complete guide for making animated perspective design or story that nobody wanted to tell me Shot on Dribbble Last year many designers noticed a huge trend to animate mobile design and to present it in a nice perspective look. I thought: How do they do that? I knew exactly, that it would be possible if I moved all UI assets to the After Effects and then animated it there.