A new Google patent outlines an authentication system in which pass codes are fashioned from combinations of facial expressions rather than letters…

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Search giant Google is intending to build huge wireless networks across Africa and Asia, using high-altitude balloons and blimps

This is so cool.

In the same way, industrial product buyers are seeing their relationship to equipment manufacturers changed by smart, connected things. In the field of mechanical and plant engineering, consider the advent of predictive maintenance. When a machine is fitted with sensors, it can know what condition it is in and, whenever necessary, initiate its own maintenance. May 31, 2013 at 08:29PM

Eric Schmidt from Google discusses disruptive technologies in the video.

There is so much more data out there that you can afford to tailor it to the individual,” says Patrick Wolfe, a statistician who studies social networks at University College, London. “Statistically, strength comes from pooling people together, but then the icing on the cake is when you individualize the findings.” May 23, 2013 at 10:48AM

The threat of super fast Google Fiber is causing other Internet providers to crank up their own offerings.

Of course, the music industry has a long tradition of separating a song’s profit from its creators. Still, wrote Krukowski, “the ways in which musicians are screwed have changed qualitatively, from individualized swindles to systemic ones.” May 16, 2013 at 12:43AM