Make it yourself with a 3-D printer and save big time

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new study shows that families can save hundreds if not thousands of dollars by making their own household items with a 3-D printer.

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New Zealand says no evidence it spied on reporter

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ? New Zealand's acting defense force chief says there's no evidence it unlawfully spied on a journalist in Afghanistan.

The statement came in response to a report in the Sunday Star-Times newspaper that the military collected phone metadata to spy on journalist Jon Stephenson, who was freelancing for U.S. news organization McClatchy. The paper claimed the military became unhappy at Stephenson's reporting on how it treated Afghan prisoners.

Major General Tim Keating said Monday the military officers responsible for operations in Afghanistan has assured him that there had been no unlawful monitoring of Stephenson by New Zealand or foreign spy agencies.

New Zealand is a member of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance that also includes the U.S., Britain, Australia and Canada.

Stephenson was a freelancer for McClatchy last year.

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Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts

[unable to retrieve full-text content]knorthern knight writes "Most major weather services (US NWS, Britain's Met Office, etc) have their own supercomputers, and their own weather models. But there are some models which are used globally. A new paper has been published, comparing outputs from one such program on different machines around the world. Apparently, the same code, running on different machines, can produce different outputs due to accumulation of differing round-off errors. The handling of floating-point numbers in computing is a field in its own right. The paper apparently deals with 10-day weather forecasts. Weather forecasts are generally done in steps of 1 hour. I.e. the output from hour 1 is used as the starting condition for the hour 2 forecast. The output from hour 2 is used as the starting condition for hour 3, etc. The paper is paywalled, but the abstract says: 'The global model program (GMP) of the Global/Regional Integrated Model system (GRIMs) is tested on 10 different computer systems having different central processing unit (CPU) architectures or compilers. There exist differences in the results for different compilers, parallel libraries, and optimization levels, primarily due to the treatment of rounding errors by the different software systems. The system dependency, which is the standard deviation of the 500-hPa geopotential height averaged over the globe, increases with time. However, its fractional tendency, which is the change of the standard deviation relative to the value itself, remains nearly zero with time. In a seasonal prediction framework, the ensemble spread due to the differences in software system is comparable to the ensemble spread due to the differences in initial conditions that is used for the traditional ensemble forecasting.'"

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How We're All Going To Be Using Wearable Technology - Business ...

This week Motorola Mobility (aka Google) announced that it would be hiring a Director for Wearable Technology, following the company?s announcement earlier this year that it was ?profoundly interested in wearables?. The firm even unveiled a ?tattoo? that was electronically authenticated.

It would be stretching a point to say that traditional tattoos are wearable technology, but in some ways there are, and the same case could be made for mobile phones. They're permanently with many of us; we ?wear? them in the same way that some of us ?wear? tattoos that were etched onto our skin by technology.

Motorola is just part of the new wave of portable technology that goes way beyond tattoos and mobiles. There are large research groups involved in this field including Georgia Tech, MIT, ETH Zurich, University of Oregon, Carnegie Mellon University, Microsoft, Sony, Samsung and the aforesaid Google.

There is a surprisingly number of people in the UK who use wearable technology. A recent report by by Rackspace and the Centre for Creative and Social Technology (CAST) at Goldsmiths, University of London found that more than eight million people in this country are doing so.

Early examples include pacemakers for those with heart conditions, but there has been a recent surge in less urgent technology such as smart clothing and monitors for fitness... and a future that offers Google Glass, sensors implanted subcutaneously and even cloaks that offer invisibility. The next decade will see a revolution in our behavior, however Canute-like we want to be.

Kevin Curran is a Reader in Computer Science at the University of Ulster and Senior Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) and posits the early 1990s as the time when the term ?wearable computer? was coined when it had the noble aim of extending the human body to do extraordinary tasks; this has led to a new form of synergy between human and computer.

?We are not yet at the stage where wearable computers are able to take the place of our mobiles but as the miniaturisation of computer chips and components increase, we are very close to mass consumer products on the market. There is still much work to be done on standardising and improving user interfaces but the arrival of Google Glasses may change the playing field,? he says.

While Google Glass is obviously interesting, the discussion about its potential is over-hyped. There are plenty of other places where people are talking about Google Glass, just as there is plenty of hype about smartwatches and Apple?s rumoured iWatch.

If eight million people in the UK that are wearing technology, there seems little opposition to such personal invasion. Privacy concerns fall down in front of convenience and this week a Finnish start-up called Uniqil announced a technology that allows its customers to buy products by using their face.

All they have to do is present their face to a camera in a store and the transaction is processed. Add to that Google Glass?s ?head tilts? or voice commands and we are as close to being remotely controlled robots as can be.

But there will be opposite reactions to this form of disruption. Some designers such as Adam Harvey from the School of Visual Arts in New York is collaborating with fellow designer Joanna Bloomfield to make clothes that allows people to be invisible from technology. Their designs cut out phone signals, protects the heart from X-rays and blocks out thermal imaging.

So, wearable technology is an emotional minefield. One minute it?s controlling the user, the next minute the user is fighting back against technology. Then there?s the help it can give to those who are old and suffering from dementia. Wearable technology could provide reminders for medication, location determination for carers, sensors to detect falls, and video replays to assist with memory. This has to be a good thing.

Scenarios such as these seem far-fetched, but technology moves at a faster rate than ever before. For now, however, as IEEE?s Curran points out, the concerns about technology such as Google Glass are more straightforward and prosaic.

?We can expect wearable devices such as smart glasses to lead to changes in behaviour. The ability to record video and images without the knowledge or permission of those within view will lead to much debate. Already, some bars, strip joints, restaurants among others have announced they are banning the wearing on smart glasses in their establishments,? he says.

As ever, Sir Isaac Newton?s words that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction ring true. Wearable technology is going to change our lives, it?s just that nobody quite knows how by how much and to what end.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-were-all-going-to-be-using-wearable-technology-2013-7

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A Concerned Reader Points Out That There Are Jamaican And Haitian DREAMers, Too; We Instance Washington Sniper Malvo

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Something I thought about during the Zimmerman trial was all of the "natural conservative" Caribbean blacks who would get Rubio's Amnesty and join the Florida Republican Party. (Not!)

Is Rachel Jeantel smarter than most Caribbean Black youth in Florida? [See Steve Sailer's post Rachel Jeantel's Testimony Shows America What 70 IQ Looks Like.] I would daresay, if you look at the Hispanic and Caribbean youth in America, that Jeantel would be close to the middle.

James Fulford writes: I won't argue about the relative IQ of Ms. Jeantel and the general population of the Caribbean (though I admit valedictorians will be few) because I've just of an even better example of the DREAM Act eligible "youngster" from the Caribbean: Washington sniper Lee Boyd Malvo.

Malvo is a perfect case for the DREAM Act: born in Kingston, Jamaica, he was brought to the US by his mother as as a "child"?I.E. a juvenile delinquent, age 16.

He attended an American high school in Bellingham, Washington, where fellow students said he was " studious, polite and well-dressed", the same kind of thing they're always saying about immigrant valedictorians. He's now 28, but that's well within the DREAM act parameters. The only problem is that he's serving ten life sentences for the thirteen people he and the late John Allan Muhammad murdered. But his lawyers will probably have fixed that soon?with good behavior, he may be out in time to vote for George P. Bush in 2020.

D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo wants life sentences tossed

By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 6/27/13 10:44 AM EDT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ? Attorneys for Washington-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo are asking federal judges in Virginia and Maryland to vacate his 10 life sentences.

In petitions filed earlier this week, attorneys argue a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision that blocked life sentences for juveniles should be applied retroactively to Malvo.

Malvo was four months shy of his 18th birthday when he and John Allen Muhammad gunned down 13 people in the Washington, D.C., area over a three-week period in October 2002. [More]

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Mobile Advertising Ecosystem Explained - Business Insider

We are in the post-PC era, and soon billions of consumers will be carrying around Internet-connected mobile devices for up to 16 hours a day.?Mobile audiences have exploded as a result.

Mobile advertising should be a bonanza, similar to online advertising a decade ago. However, it has been a bit slow off the ground, and its growth trajectory is not clear cut.

In a recent report from?BI?Intelligence?on the mobile advertising ecosystem, we?explain the complexities and fractures, and examine the central and dynamic roles played by mobile ad networks, demand side platforms, mobile ad exchanges, real-time bidding, agencies, brands, and new companies hoping to upend the traditional banner ad.

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Here's the dynamics surrounding the mobile advertising ecosystem:

• Mobile advertising is relatively tiny:?U.S. mobile ad revenue was $1.2 billion last year, a tiny fraction of overall U.S. ad spend.?And most "mobile ads" were simply search and display ads viewed on mobile.??According to BI Intelligence estimates, mobile advertising is on track to hit $3.2 billion this year.?
• Why??Mobile CPMS are low, and ads are oftentimes intrusive.?Ad spending has therefore not caught up with time spent on mobile.?These will remain significant challenges to mobile ads.
• Also, the mobile ad ecosystem is very complex:?The mobile ad ecosystem is not as strictly delineated as the desktop ecosystem.?In mobile advertising, the rules of the road change with different combinations of device, wireless operator, and operating system.
• And there are few shared protocols or standards: Mobile lacks the technical consensus that enables ad targeting, delivery, and measurement to work fairly seamlessly across the desktop world.?As the mobile ad industry matures it will likely become more streamlined and simple, but for now there are innumerable actors interacting with one another and attempting to find a niche.
• The display ad category presents a dynamic and complicated future:?Google?dominated the paid search category, which accounted for?62 percent of mobile global ad spend last year. But, mobile ad networks, demand side platforms, mobile ad exchanges are all part of a dynamic ecosystem that is constantly evolving and trying to grow non-search mobile related advertising. New companies are also testing out and finding some success with mobile native ad formats.?

In full, the?report:

To access BI Intelligence's full reports on The Mobile Advertising Ecosystem, sign up for a free trial subscription here.

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Ford lifts outlook... Facebook ads surprise... Panera losing on breakfast... Corruption in China (Video)

Business news from around the Web:

? What Google's new Chromecast means for Microsoft, Amazon (Bizjournals)

? Facebook rakes in new ad revenue, beating expectations (Bizjournals)

? Dell buyout group calls for rule change (WSJ)

? Ford lifts outlook as profit grows (WSJ)

? Polar thaw opens shortcut for Russian natural gas (NYT)

? Panera is losing out to rivals on breakfast (Businessweek)

Expected earnings

3M, Alaska Air, Amazon.com, Arctic Cat, Brightcove, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Cabela?s, Callaway Golf, Colgate-Palmolive, Columbia Sportswear, comScore, Constant Contact, Dolby Laboratories, Dole Food Company, Dow Chemical, Dunkin? Brands Group, Expedia, General Motors, GNC Holdings, Harley-Davidson, Hershey, Janus Capital Group, Legg Mason, McClatchy, McGraw Hill Financial, Meredith Corp., Principal Financial Group, Raytheon, Regal Entertainment Group, Southwest Airlines, Standard Pacific, Strayer Education, Verisign, Xerox, Zynga.

Mark Reilly manages daily and weekly coverage at the Business Journal newsroom.

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