Mass adoption of augmented reality will create new ethical issues, especially as we migrate beyond one-off experiences into a shared AR Cloud (or clouds), and as devices emerge which allow for a hyper-realistic blending of the real and digital. If you can walk down the street and everyone you meet…

SpatialOS may well be the world’s next operating system, following a lineage that runs from MS-DOS through Windows, the Web through iOS and Android. Developed by Improbable.io, the company has serious funding, a deep talent pool, and the kind of press that a company can only dream of when their…

“Fake news” gets pornographic when “deepfakes”, a user on Reddit, uses machine learning to meld a star’s face on a porn star’s body (in this case Gal Gadot). Motherboard reports that the creator of the videos uses open-source machine learning tools like TensorFlow, which Google makes freely available to researchers, graduate students, and anyone with an interest in machine learning. Read the rest of it on my blog.

The first one was a humpback, and I saw the phosphorescence of its wake first, a plume of brightness that hung over the street like sunset. It was a warm night in June and it looked like the light of festivals or lanterns. The silver belly of the whale camouflaged…

On Medium I get the same old “top stories for you” no matter how often I reopen on my phone or tablet. I’ve taken to tapping on them and quickly swiping through just to get them off my feed….thus giving them another “read” and possibly pushing them into the recommended feed of others. @ev Would love if “top stories for you” either changed up or could be hidden.

Bob! Get in the sled! Guest Post: Thomas Walle, CEO and Co-Founder Unacast During my attendance at several conferences about beacons, proximity and location based marketing the last couple of months, the conversations and discussions with peers have started to heat up. Especially in recent is the Street Fight awards, where Unacast won the best…

Kontakt, one of the largest manufacturers of beacons, has a message for its customers: you’re all doomed. In what might rank as one of the more bizarre examples of corporate messaging, the company’s founder has taken to LinkedIn to pronounce that with the arrival of the Eddystone beacon protocol (and…

Unlearning stuff I believe about how computers work. — It wasn’t part of the plan to code. I was supposed to be the biz dev/marketing co-Founder type. But, I’ve learned to program and I’ve learned a lot because of it. And one of the things I’ve come to recognize in myself is how much the age in which I…

The Internet of Things will change how content is created, distributed and paid for. Here’s why. — Digital content has a new home in the physical world. By attaching content to people, places and things it will forever change the economics of content production and distribution. There’s no shortage of hype about the Internet of Things. Our thermostats know we’re headed home, we can order more Tide…