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As it is Internet of Things Week in Massachusetts it seemed appropriate to step up on the home front. Over the past six months, I’ve been adding automation to my home on a piece-by-piece basis. I started with WeMo Home Automation switches for my outside lights, and later added a Nest Thermostat to control my heating and cooling system. These are very nice, and a huge improvement over the old and unreliable X10 timer system I used to run my outside lights. They also had a much better WAF. Still each technology family had it’s own iPhone app, and, despite the growing reach of IFTTT, it was really just remote control, not real home automation. That has changed with the addition of the SmartThings hub into the mix. The Smartthings hub brings a few important capabilities: It is a multi-protocol device, so it can talk to TCP/IP devices like WeMo and Nest, and also to traditional home automation protocols like Z-Wave and ZigBee Alliance devices. It has the ability to run small control... - Technodad - -

I'm increasingly impressed by the thought SmartThings is putting in to their app. Of course, Apple's entry into the field will shake things up. - Technodad - -

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madewithpaper: Watch how Angela Kalakairinou made this drawing with Paper, and follow her on Tumblr for more beautiful creations and videos. What? You can make great drawings on paper? Oh, wait… - Technodad - -

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Microsoft outlines "Oslo" virtual assistant : Microsoft could be on to something: A virtual assistant which combines a “what you know” knowledge graph with a “who you know” social graph. “It knows everything I’m doing—what I’m reading, what I’m liking, who I’m following, the people I’m interacting with, who I’m responding to fastest—and serves up a personalized experience about what content is most interesting, what things I should be involved in, what people I should interact with,” says Julia White, general manager of the Microsoft Office suite. “My work is no longer about who sent me e-mail most recently; it’s about what’s most important to me.” Moving Office 365 beyond simple integrated apps is strategically important to differentiate it from free word processing and spreadsheet capabilities offered by Google, Apple and the open source community. - Technodad - -

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Ars: Google+ "walking dead"?: We knew about Google’s policy change on not forcing products to integrate with Google+, but Ars gives a harsher judgement: As a brand, Google+ is about at toxic as you can get. Ouch. - Technodad - -

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Optical efifects photographed by Göran Strand.: I’d have thought the Eye of Odin would have been a better name, but a cool photo nonetheless. - Technodad - -

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Having High-Tech Gadgets Is a Career-Booster, Says Study: Business professionals who want to be perceived as leaders should be investing in the latest technology breakthroughs, according to a study published recently in The Journal of Product Innovation Management. - Technodad - -

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Will 2014 Be the Year You Fall in Love With Cognitive Computing?: In the Oscar-winning film “Her,” the character played by Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his smartphone’s artificial intelligence personal assistant named Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson). via Pocket - Technodad - -

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CrowdStrike Wants to Help Cyberattack Victims Strike Back: via MIT Technology Review: Crowdstrike founder says focus on the attackers, not on defending the perimeter. - Technodad - -

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Google Is Reportedly Set To Carve Up Its Failed Social Network Google+: Google is also reportedly scrapping mandatory Google+ integration with its other products. - Technodad - -

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Schneier on Security: Heartbleed: If you haven’t reacted to the heartbleed vulnerability, Bruce Schneier serves it cold: Basically, an attacker can grab 64K of memory from a server. The attack leaves no trace, and can be done multiple times to grab a different random 64K of memory. This means that anything in memory — SSL private keys, user keys, anything — is vulnerable. And you have to assume that it is all compromised. All of it. "Catastrophic" is the right word. On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11. The bug has been patched. After you patch your systems, you have to get a new public/private key pair, update your SSL certificate, and then change every password that could potentially be affected. At this point, the probability is close to one that every target has had its private keys extracted by multiple intelligence agencies. The real question is whether or not someone deliberately inserted this bug into OpenSSL, and has had two years of unfettered access to everything. My... - Technodad - -

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Money creation in the modern economy: Report by the Bank of England on money flows in the banking system (PDF). This article explains how the majority of money in the modern economy is created by commercial banks making loans. Money creation in practice differs from some popular misconceptions - Banks do not act simply as intermediaries, lending out deposits that savers place with them, and nor do they ‘multiply up’ central bank money to create new loans and deposits. The amount of money created in the economy ultimately depends on the monetary policy of the central bank. In normal times, this is carried out by setting interest rates. The central bank can also affect the amount of money directly through purchasing assets or ‘quantitative easing’. via Pocket - Technodad - -

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Navy demonstrates fuel from seawater: Using an innovative and proprietary NRL electrolytic cation exchange module (E-CEM), both dissolved and bound CO2 are removed from seawater at 92 percent efficiency by re-equilibrating carbonate and bicarbonate to CO2 and simultaneously producing H2. The gases are then converted to liquid hydrocarbons by a metal catalyst in a reactor system. - Technodad - -

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UrtheCast - First Light: UrtheCast, who plans to publish a real time stream of earth imagery from the ISS, has posted its first public pictures. - Technodad - -

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