Foundry’s WTF (21-Oct-2017)

The Foundry’s Weekly Technology Fix (WTF) is a curated list of articles/posts/etc. we found interesting. The Foundry @ Cornell Tech transforms research and ideas into products.

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Department of 🎮 💉 (Digital Addictions)

AI spell book; VR "candid camera"; and another mobile app for teenagers.

List Of 50 Unique/Routine AI Technologies

Two People Playing Different VR Games Are Tricked Into Interacting

What most don’t see in TBH, an app sold for ~$100M and launched only 9 weeks ago

Department of 💡🏙 (Smarter Cities)

Fake city for self-driving cars; city-bike united; and air pollution in Madrid.

Uber constructed a life-sized fake city so its self-driving cars maybe won't kill us all

16 Small Cities Team Up on Bike-Share

Madrid's Getting Close to "Plan A" Rollout to Fight Air Pollution

Department of 🤑 🔌 (Shameless Plugs)

Technology + Humanity, made in Cornell; Cornell Tech to prevent the next Equifax debacle; and a cool driving simulator.

Cornell launches Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity

3 Cornell Tech Innovations to Prevent a Future Equifax-like Breach

We Can't Stop Watching These Simulations Of Cars Getting Obliterated By 100 Consecutive Speed Bumps

Department of 🌈🎆(Silver Linings)

Interesting exhibit in Paris; from bankruptcy to basic income experiment; and sticker factory.

Faszinierende Tanzperformance: "The Mechanics of History" - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Video

3 years ago, Stockton, California, was bankrupt. Now it's trying out a basic income.

Sticker Factories Are Mesmerizing Mechanical Wonderlands

Department of 🙋👨🏽‍💼👷🏿👩🏼‍🔬(“we” the people)

Liquid democracy; unfit to serve; and "sidewalk talk".

Colorado Political Candidate Promises to Give His Seat to an App

The Vast Majority Of Americans In Their 20s Are Unfit For Military Service

Feeling Lonely? A 'Sidewalk Talk' Could Turn Things Around.

Department of 🎬 📖 (worthy quotes)

« Corporate equities serve companies. Government bonds serve nations, states, municipalities. Mortgages serve property owners. And now: Crypto assets serve decentralized applications. » — Adam Ludwin [source].

« Shannon proposed an unsettling inversion. Ignore the physical channel and accept its limits: we can overcome noise by manipulating our messages. The answer to noise is not in how loudly we speak, but in how we say what we say. » — Jimmy Soni, in A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age.

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