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Siri - Your Virtual Personal Assistant

Siri - Your Virtual Personal Assistant
Know the score. Ask Siri for baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer scores as well as schedules, rosters, and stats. Choose a movie. Ask Siri to get showtimes, buy tickets from Fandango, look up movie facts, play trailers, show you reviews, and more. Find a restaurant. Ask Siri to search by different criteria or a combination. Post to Facebook. Ask Siri to update your Facebook status and post a comment. Send a tweet. Twitter integration means you can ask Siri to tweet for you. Launch an app. With iOS 7, you can ask Siri to open apps. Set reminders. Tell Siri what you need to do. Send a text. Say who it’s for and how the message should read, and Siri writes and sends your text. Check the weather. Siri gives you the forecast for where you are or for anywhere you’re curious about. Find information. Ask Siri almost anything and it finds the answer using sources like Yelp and WolframAlpha. Schedule meetings. Say who, what, where, and when. Send an email. Ask Siri to write and send email.

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How It Works It will take anywhere from 3 seconds to 1 minute for your pic to upload, depending on how big it is. You're going to see this message every time you post a new pic. So, we're making the text really long so that it'll take you at least five picture uploads to read it all. Here's what we're thinking...While your first picture is uploading think about someone you want to kiss. When you upload your second pic think about one friend who you can beat in a race. Women rush to enlist in army-style fitness militia In Search of..... - TV.com www.tv.com/shows/in-search-of Narrarated by Leonard Nimoy, In search of was a 30 minute syndicated show that covered a wide range of paranormal topics.

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OnlinePub - stiri din publicitatea online - Advice for Semantic Web Startups: Embrace Evolution Advice for Semantic Web Startups: Embrace Evolution Photo credit: Flickr/kevindooley The Semantic Web is so very much about adaptability a€“ adaptability of data to serve new purposes, adaptability to top-down and bottom-up approaches, and delivery of a whole new Web space that users will adapt to, without necessarily even realizing the mechanics behind the change. Semantic Web entrepreneurs are discovering that adaptability matters to their own business models as well, when the field is still so green, many people still aren’t 100 percent sure about why the Semantic Web might matter to them, and potential big customers may be skeptical about the street cred of an emerging company in a space that may still feel a little blurry to them. Take the case of startup Bueda, co-founded by CEO Vasco Pedro.

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How to Make a Paper Bag: 6 steps (with pictures) Edit Article Edited by Horses4Ever, Dave Crosby, Tom Viren, Flickety and 59 others Tired of those regular brown paper bags? Semantic Web Jobs - Lotico If you'd like to hire a Semantic Web expert or if you're looking for a Semantic Web position, please send me a short note or an HTTP link. If you're posting a position, please be sure to note whether or not the job is in the NYC area. If you're looking for a position, please indicate whether you're willing to consider locations besides the NYC area. Data Analytics Technical Architect - Chase Auto Finance - Jersey City, NJ

Society for Science & the Public - Intel ISEF - Home Page The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition, providing an annual forum for more than 1,600 high school students from over 70 countries, regions, and territories to showcase their independent research and compete for more than $4 million in awards. Today, millions of students worldwide compete each year in local and school-sponsored science fairs; the winners of these events go on to participate in SSP-affiliated regional and state fairs from which the best win the opportunity to attend Intel ISEF. Intel ISEF unites these top young scientific minds, showcasing their talents on an international stage, where doctoral level scientists review and judge their work. SSP partners with Intel—along with dozens of other corporate, academic, government and science-focused sponsors—who provide the support and awards for Intel ISEF. Offical party Informational Flyer

The Semantic Web & THE POWER OF PULL » Blog March 25, 2012 The phone is the new platform – everything is converging onto the “smart phone.” Soon, we’ll use our phones to manage our homes, purchase things, board an airplane, sign a document, get into our office buildings, and much much more. And yet today’s phones basically mimic our desktop computers. Do you really want to open a Word or Excel document on your phone? Come to think of it, why should everything be stored on your phone? Sounds Familiar? What you can hear You can listen to 71 sound recordings and over 600 short audio clips chosen from two collections of the British Library Sound Archive: the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank. You’ll hear Londoners discussing marriage and working life, Welsh teenagers talking with pride about being bilingual and the Aristocracy chatting about country houses. You can explore the links between present-day Geordie and our Anglo-Saxon and Viking past or discover why Northern Irish accents are a rich blend of seventeenth century English and Scots. You can study changes in pronunciation among the middle classes or find out how British Asians express their linguistic identity.

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