30 Gift Ideas for the Young Entrepreneur | Under30CEO. The holidays are approaching quickly and it’s time to finish up that shopping and get those last minute gifts. If you have a young entrepreneur in your life the holidays are a great time to help them out and give them something that can help out their business or their lifestyle.
Starting a business is a long road and can be tiring and stressful but there are tons of things that can make the whole process that much easier. 1. Flip Cam Flip Cams are at the top of a lot of people’s lists. Some uses for them are video blogging, recording presentations or simply adding some personality to your website by addressing things on camera rather then text. 2. Seems like a no brainer but there are tons of people still sitting on a desktop or maybe even an ancient laptop that acts like a desktop. 3. Not a must but still a fun gift. 4. Traveling can be a big part of being a young entrepreneur. 5. Entrepreneurs run on coffee!
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There is a rising uneasiness about some of the perhaps unintended consequences high-tech gear being built in the name of military might. Professor Noel Sharkey, a British scholar of artificial intelligence and robotics who has warned many times of future robot-related problems, told a meeting of scientists in London this week that the technology to create Terminator-like machines already exists and that an international dialogue on such military applications is needed. Slideshow: 8 real-life robots that could kill us all "The problem is that this is all based on artificial intelligence, and the military have a strange view of artificial intelligence based on science fiction," Sharkey said.
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IBM has now gotten $21 million to work on the program known as Systems of neuromorphic adaptive plastic scalable electronics (SyNAPSE) which includes researchers from HRL Laboratories, which got $16.2 million in Oct. 2008, and others such as HP. DARPA's Top 10 wicked cool high-tech aviation systems According to DARPA, the SyNAPSE program will create useful, intelligent machines. In DARPA language: the agency is looking to develop electronic neuromorphic machine technology that is scalable to biological levels. The agency ultimate envisions work in four key areas: Challenge: movie mashups - the next generation. Home » Image Challenge » Movie Mashups - The Next Generation[Suggest a different challenge] Movie Mashups - The Next Generation(This challenge is now closed) Take any film you wish, and photoshop the scenery, characters or titles into the style of a famous movie poster for a different film: The Dambusters in the style of Ghostbusters, Finding Nemo in the style of Jaws, etc.
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But those are some of the lofty items that are now on BBN Technology's plate as the firm this week got $29.7 million from the Air Force to develop a prototype machine reading system that transforms prose into knowledge that can be interpreted by an artificial intelligence application. The prototype is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Machine Reading Program (MRP) that wants to develop systems that can capture knowledge from naturally occurring text and transform it into the formal representations used by AI reasoning systems. As digitized text from library books world wide becomes available, new avenues of cultural awareness and historical research will be enabled. "Strength is irrelevant, resistance is futile. We wish to improve ourselves.
S Social Media Guide for Small Businesses. Over the past year, Mashable has written extensively on the value of social media to small businesses. We have also contributed regularly on this topic to the American Express Open Forum. From the fundamentals of Twitter branding, to the importance of blogging, to getting work done with some great online tools, small businesses face many challenges when trying to understand how to use social media. However, taking the time to learn how to leverage social media and technology to benefit your business will pay big dividends in the long run. Whether you're just signing up, or primed for some advanced social marketing, the posts below have all the tips, tricks, and wisdom you'll need to take your brand to the next level.
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