*We all taught Google’s new advanced speech recognition how to hear.

As I argued in my semi-recent Google’s A.I. quest to become God-On-Earth piece, the more everyone uses Google the ‘smarter’ it becomes. I even mentioned the GOOG411 service in this regard: “An intelligent thinking machine would also needs ears, and ears they are giving it. Make a call to 1-800-GOOG411 and experience their speech recognition [...]

*Donald Trump; Kitco.com: ‘We’re headed for another 1929′.

Ignorance Is Futile: Radio commentator Al Korelin for Kitco.com, the worlds leading gold investments site, not only pointed out that Donald Trump warned of a New Great Depression but also concurred. The guest, Roger Wiegand, stated that it won’t happen over days or weeks but that it will be spread out over a very long [...]

>Narrators needed!

I’m searching for volunteers who would like to co-narrate my upcoming film “an unholy alliance”. I’ve decided I’d like to have a broad mixup of narrators spread across the majority of the film. I’ve kicked around several approaches from just doing it myself, to having select people do certain segments, but now I think I [...]

*Why a pro-draft Chief of Staff is a big deal.

Ignorance Is Futile: Bush’s former Chief of Staff Andrew Card unwittingly explains why Obama’s CoS being a supporter of a “civilian national security force” might even be worse than Obama supporting it. In an old Daily Show interview Andy Card explains how a CoS literally serves as the gate-keeper to what the president is told [...]

-Future Phones to Read Your Voice, Gestures.

Wired: “So much of how we understand technology is visually driven,” says Rachel Hinman, a strategist with Adaptive Path, a user-experience and design-consulting firm. “Mobile interface design has to mimic the touch, sight, gesture and auditory feeds that we use to interact with our environment.” That means speaking to your phone rather than typing, pointing [...]