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Forget the turing test: Users value authentic, not artificial, intelligence

Jun30

by Sindy Cator on June 30, 2014 at 6:33 pm

Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur

Greg Zontanos is the co-founder and CEO at Locish, a Q&A app that helps users find new places to eat, drink, and have fun. They finally did it. Technology can now officially outsmart humans into believing it’s “one of our own.” Apocalyptic premonitions aside, this watershed moment – while an impressive feat of scientific endeavor – has a fundamental flaw in its design: tech isn’t really human. And we need it to be. As consumers, we’re more open than ever to ‘digital’ influencing our decision making – on everything from where to go, what to do, what to buy, and where…

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└ Tags: syndicated

Infinit and beyond: This could become the ultimate file-sharing desktop app for creatives

Jun30

by Sindy Cator on June 30, 2014 at 5:22 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Reviews

Back in November, we brought you news on Infinit, which we called a fast, unlimited file-transfer desktop app for creatives. Then, Infinit was a Mac-only desktop app in (public) beta. But as of last month, Infinit is a fully launched product with a Windows app to boot, though the latter remains in beta for now pending some design polish. Oh, and the Paris-based company now has $1.8 million in funding under its belt too. A lot has changed across the board since we covered the early version, so here we take a quick look at what’s what under the hood….

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└ Tags: creativity, syndicated

Samsung Gear Live now available for pre-order in Australia, Japan and South Korea via Google Play

Jun30

by Sindy Cator on June 30, 2014 at 4:02 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Launches

If you live in Australia, Japan or South Korea, it’s now possible to pre-order the Samsung Gear Live from the Google Play store. The smartwatch costs $250 (Australian dollars), ¥22,000 (yen) and ₩224,000 (won) respectively and is expected to leave Google’s warehouse on July 7. The Samsung Gear Live was announced at Google’s I/O conference last week and is one of the first smartwatches to run Android Wear. LG is launching its G Watch at the same time, ahead of the highly-anticipated, circular Moto 360 later this year. Unlike Google’s mobile OS for smartphones and tablets, the software experience will be the…

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All advertisers can now offer app installs from directly inside mobile Twitter apps

Jun30

by Sindy Cator on June 30, 2014 at 4:00 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Companies looking to get Twitter users to install their apps will be happy to hear the social network launched today Mobile App Promotions globally. Mobile App Promotions allow companies to create tweets that can be used to install mobile apps. When clicked, the app installs and when it has completed the install, the window pop ups to launch the app. If the app is already on your device, you will be prompted to open the app. The ads can be targeted with keywords, interests, TV targeting, gender, location, language and mobile device. Plus the ads come with conversion tracking. For users, it’s…