The Need for Speed

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Note: this is the text from a Linkedin post I wrote, in response to a post by Cathy Hackl, She visited a concept store that features Alipay’s “smile to pay” facial recognition payment technology. Here’s her video where she’s discovering facial recognition payment systems in China. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6503651708290293760/ As I’ve written about before, I have some very serious reservations about facial recognition technology and how it will completely remove any semblance of privacy or anonymity. And unfortunately, it’s inevitable. What I am worried about is having our biometric data stored in so many databases, where we have

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The next iteration of Photoshop – you’ll never be able to believe a video again!

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This video shows the freaky results of research underway at the University of Washington: how easy it is to make it look like people said something they never did at all. www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2015/12/software_generates_controllable_models_of_famous_people_s_faces_video.html Automated post from Decahedralist Inc. – http://ift.tt/1N2nmAg December 11, 2015 at 05:34PM

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Defining innovation

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I was stunned when, after posting this article on Facebook the other days, I got pushback that it wasn’t really an “innovation” because it was too simple: www.eng.ox.ac.uk/about/news/oxford-designed-flare-pan-uses-40-per-cent-less-heat-than-conventional-pans. The design came about this way. Professor Tom Povey – who actually works as an engineer researching the design of high-efficiency cooling systems for next-generation jet-engines (he’s a real rocket scientist!) – was waiting for a pan of water to boil. As he waited, he mused on how much energy was being wasted by heat loss from inefficient pan design. Using his training and background, he developed the “Flare Pan” which

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Connecting the dots: Evaluating new business opportunities

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I’m heavily back into the New York City startup scene and – phew, it’s a hopping one. Recession schmecession. Had the pleasure of recently attended a party mixing VCs and startups (many already operating, some not) and I honestly have more fun listening to the startup’s business pitches and evaluating (sometimes in my head, sometimes freely giving my two cents’ worth!) the market potential than just about anything; the neurons start firing, the dots connecting (a la my previous post…..). There’s a big party going on my head, just hearing all the ideas and

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Connecting dots: Understanding the strategic process

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I regularly get asked, “how do you come up your blog entry subjects?” – and my standard answer is, I notice things, then connect the dots. And then I saw a wonderfully quirky little movie tonight, a documentary about a man (Bill Cunningham) who has spent decades spotting and documenting trends in fashion on the streets of NY. I love this quote: “…see, I don’t decide anything – I let the streets speak to me…In order for the streets to speak to you, you’ve got to stay out there and see what it is…You just don’t manufacture in your

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