Новости за 12.03.2016

AUSTIN, Texas

Government, the private sector and non-profits should work together to apply technology to address the nation's problems and to enhance civic engagement, said President Barack Obama, delivering the keynote Friday at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive technology conference here.

The first sitting president ever to address the conference, he said if we pull together, "There's no problem we face in this country that's not solvable."

His address was in the form of an interview with Evan Smith... Читать дальше...

General Motors announced Friday that it's acquiring Cruise Automation for Cruise's deep software talent and rapid development capability -- a move designed to further accelerate GM's development of autonomous vehicle technology.

Everyone loves a good story. It doesn’t matter what language you speak or what culture you’re from, a good story captures imagination and an emotional investment that is often impossible to walk away from. Think about all the movies we watch. It doesn’t matter if it’s an award winning movie or not as long as the story means something to you, you will remember it. When you have invested yourself in a story you develop an emotional attachment to it. Upon questioning, you summon your best logic to defend it—and quite frankly... Читать дальше...

It seems like everywhere I turn these days, I see tipping points. According to Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, it’s "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point" – that instant when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Or as Rich Hughes, a data warehouse marketer at IBM, said in a recent blog: “A tipping point is the crucial junction after which evolution becomes revolution.”

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