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NASA says 2.1MM deaths annually due to PM2.5 pollution.
[A version of this was original posted on our Facebook feed]. “2.1 million deaths occur worldwide each year as a direct result of a toxic type of outdoor air pollution known as fine particulate matter (PM2.5)” according to Environmental Research Letters study cited in a NASA article. (This is, of course, the type of dust pollution that our app lets take control of, especially in your home.) If you live in a major city anywhere in the world, you need to be concerned about premature death due to PM2.5 particulate dust, with the possible exception of people living in Florida (!). (The article actually compares current dust pollution levels to pre-industrial pollution levels.) China and India are, of course, off the scale, a concern for neighboring countries like Japan, South Korea, and the West Coast of the U.S. that get airflows from their cities. [We’ve noticed that air pollution in Los Angeles seems much worse in the winter than in the summer.… Read the restWatson from IBM: Why semantic text tech helps analytics
IBM Watson: dramatic potential or nothing new? There is a new type of software technology from IBM and others that has the potential to dramatically change how we work. In particular, certain types of workplace drudgery may be eliminated. The key is intelligent processing of unstructured text. You might remember IBM’s Watson technology from a few year’s back. It’s a natural language Q&A system named after IBM’s founder (pictured). (We’re guessing it’s also an allusion to the Sherlock Holmes character.) As a publicity stunt, IBM had Watson beat the reigning Jeopardy! champion. At least based on the material on IBM’s website it still isn’t too clearly technically what IBM is. There are other impressive systems for searching and processing unstructured text and answering human-language questions. (We’ll talk about them in a bit.) Aside from some glossy marketing materials, IBM seems coy about why Watson is better or cheaper than the competition.… Read the restGoogle Glass: Confessions of a New Cyborg
Google Glass, Cyborgs, and the Singularity Does Google Glass turn you into an awesome Terminator-like Cyborg with a web browser inside of your brain? Or does it just frighten the horses? Will you become a so-called “Glasshole”? Is the software still limited and flawed? Or is the built-in Chrome browser all the Cyborg software you need? In this article, we take a look at some of the pluses and minuses of Glass. #Glass turns you into an awesome Cyborg with an in-brain browser? #throughglass Click To Tweet Frequent readers of this blog will note our fascination with theory of the Singularity, as exemplified in Ray Kurzweil’s series of books. (We’ll note that the forthcoming science-fiction movie Transcendence is one way the Singularity might play out. That is, if it actually happens in the first place.) At least two decades ago, Kurzweil and others predicted Google Glass (“special glasses” as Kurzweil called them) would hit the market right about now.… Read the restTravel Channel features tech; crowd-funding of masks (Readers comments)
Since our last post we received some comments from readers worth noting here: Thomas Talhelm of Smart Air Filters, Inc. (see our article) wrote a comment on our Facebook page: A Beijing-based doctor is crowd-funding an initiative to have open tests of air pollution masks, including fit tests while people are moving and masks for kids. Worthy of a few bucks! Cool! Sounds like a worthy project! And they look better and less comical than some of the air quality masks we’ve previously reviewed! Air quality masks are very much needed in China. And Everett Greenstreet III, a realtor and editor of the Live Green in DC blog writes: I thought you would like to know that the host of the show Hotel Impossible used a Dylos Dust monitor [link added] on the latest episode of the show which airs on Travel Channel [link]. This really is powerful that a Hotel operator would monitor the air quality,etc.… Read the restRecent Comments
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