Google serait prêt à débourser 400 millions de dollars pour s’offrir les travaux de Demis Hassanis, un ingénieur surdoué de 37 ans, spécialiste de l’intelligence artificielle. Basée à Londres, DeepMind précise avec humilité sur sa page d’accueil être spécialisée dans les algorithmes de simulation pour les jeux et l’e-commerce. Mais la startup a développé une expertise que beaucoup qualifient d’unique au monde, dans l’analyse de la neuroscience et l’intelligence artificielle. La startup anglaise aurait par ailleurs créé des approches inédites de l’AI (Artificial Intelligence) appliquées à l’e-commerce sous forme de recommandations. DeepMind, qui a seulement 3 ans d’existence, aurait bénéficié du soutien financier des membres de Founders Fund, et de celui d’Horizon Ventures.
Ron Dennis of McLaren in conversation with David Rowan, editor of Wired, in conversation at the G8 Innovation Conference on 14 June 2013 at the Crystal in London
6 months after, I'm still looking at this talk as one of the most inspiring features of the G8 Innovation Conference I was invited at by UKTI and McKinsey last year. I have suggested this video to business friends many times over the past weeks and it is one of the very few YouTube pieces that I actually have viewed more than once.
Key points :
- Motor racing is unique: the second is the unit, a 1% window between success and failure.
- A Formula 1 has 100 sensors 6.5 Billion data points over a Grand Prix. A race team is run from HQ where 3000 race patterns are analysed against the current car's parameters.
- McLaren spends between 100-200 M£ in their data analysis and processing systems.
- In racing there is no error and control. Massive fast development of components. Simulation reversed R&D: now they have 90% productivity instead of 10%. "Basically we make nothing that does not work"
- Electric motor coupled to very sophisticated control system allow for absolutely linear torque
C'est l'argumentation développé pendant plus d'une heure trente et qui s'est suivi d'un débat enflammé avec la salle dans un vieil immeuble du Marais. Et Nicolas Colin sait de quoi il parle quand il prône la rupture devant une salle pleine a craquer.
Énarque, ancien Inspecteur des finances ayant travaillé sur lataxation de l'économie numérique dans un rapport rendu l'an dernier, a quitté la trajectoire naturelle que prennent généralement ce type de "comètes", pour co-fonder ailleurs dans l'univers et loin de l'Administration, un incubateur / accélérateur de startup:TheFamily.
Une pépinière pour justement couver les bébés barbares, avant qu'ils n'aillent se confronter à la réalité du marché, dans toutes les industries. Vous trouverez sur le blog de TheFamily les vidéos des autres conférences où les barbares attaquent la finance, la grande distribution et même leconsulting
This chart from Morgan Stanley illustrates how Apple has invaded people's lives.
There was time when Microsoft had 95% of the computing market, and Apple was fighting for its life. (That time is quickly turning into old history, but for some of us it feels like yesterday.)
At that point, only a sliver of people had Apple products in their lives. Households were pretty much either Apple houses or Microsoft houses.
Today, everything's different. You can own a Windows-based PC and an iPhone or iPad.
This chart shows that 70% of people with Windows products have an Apple product in their homes.
Apple couldn't win the PC game, so it changed the game, introducing the iPod, then the iPhone, and then the iPad.
Today, Apple is the world's most valuable company, and Microsoft is trying to catch up in personal computing.
During the past five years, the ability to register and log in on websites with a social network or email identity has become increasingly prevalent. In fact, 90% of people have encountered social login before, and more than half of people use it. Because it makes the account creation and login process so much faster and easier and eliminates the need to remember yet another username and password, it’s no surprise that social login has become so popular.
But which networks are people most likely to choose? How do these preferences differ based on the type of sites people visit? We all use multiple social networks for different purposes. Facebook is generally where we interact with our close friends and family. LinkedIn is where we maintain our professional persona. Google+ lets us do both, by letting us organize our social graph and content we share into circles. We use Twitter to follow influencers, share opinions, and read about topics of interest. And Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft are our primary means of privately communicating with others via email.
For four years, Janrain has published quarterly reports to shed light on consumer preferences for social login, with data aggregated from the websites that use Janrain. The key takeaway, above all else, is that people want choice. In other words, there is not a single identity provider to rule them all.
Interestingly, the real "camembert" does not match what I thought it would look like. My techdom bias would have led me to expect to a smaller G+ and a quite larger Twitter & LinkedIn share...
while the Internet’s global capability to connect anyone with anything has affected every nook and cranny of modern life — with politics, education, espionage, war, civil liberties, entertainment, sex, science, finance and manufacturing all transformed — its growth increasingly presents paradoxes.
It was, for example, the Internet’s global reach that made classified documents available to Mr. Snowden — and made it so easy for him to distribute them to news organizations.
Everything has expanded by a factor of a million since we turned it on in 1973. The number of machines on the network, the speeds of the network, the kind of memory capacity that’s available, it’s all 10 to the sixth.
I would say that there aren’t too many systems that have been designed that can handle a millionfold scaling without completely collapsing. But that doesn’t mean that it will continue to work that way.
Google has just forged a partnership with German automaker Audi to bring an Android-powered entertainment and information system to Audi vehicle dashboards in the near future. It's a clear shot against Apple, which announced an 'iOS in the Car' program last year, with the collaboration of Mercedes, BMW and Honda — as well as GM in the United States. Here's the Wall Street Journal's take on the deal, which was their scoop: "With 80 million new cars and light trucks sold each year, automobiles represent a significant new opportunity for Internet-based software and services. 'The car is becoming the ultimate mobile device,' said Thilo Koslowski, an analyst at the research firm Gartner. 'Apple and Google see that and are trying to line up allies to bring their technology into the vehicle.'"
Il y a quelques mois, les constructeurs ne voulaient surtout pas dire si Android était embarqué. C'est le cas depuis longtemps. Une excellente chose que cela soit enfin clair...
In 2006, when Apple was about to release the iPhone, patents came up in a senior management meeting. Apple's leaders were wondering what they should patent.
Jobs had a simple, decisive answer: "We are going to patent it all."
Le 27 novembre 2013 avait lieu à Bercy le lancement officiel d’une nouvelle initiative gouvernementale pour dynamiser la place de la France dans la compétition numérique : “La French Tech”, l...
Très bonne analyse d'Olivier Ezratty sur la démarche ayant conduit au lancement de la French Tech et révélations sur sa participation au Shadow Advisory Board de la Mission de Préfiguration confiée à la Caisse des Dépôts ;-)
L'important c'est l'analyse permettant de comprendre, non pas ce que le gouvernement va en tirer... (ce lancement n'était pas apparu sur les tablettes que je survole), mais ce que chacun peut y trouver pour ses projets en en comprenant mieux les facettes...
Following Edward Snowden’s revelations of U.S. cloud snooping, there has been much talk about a “European cloud.” As EU digital chief Neelie Kroes said on Thursday, this will most likely be a federation of national cloud projects – she haspreviously warned against excessive fragmentation within the Union, arguing that this would hamper efforts to achieve sufficient scale.
But what do those national projects look like? Probably the most intriguing example is to be found in France, where the state has taken a twin-pronged approach to stimulating the local cloud provider scene. The country’s “Sovereign Cloud” scheme pre-dates the revelations around NSA and GCHQ espionage – its two separate Amazon rivals, Cloudwatt and Numergy, were formed in 2012 – but the new political landscape around cloud certainly favors those companies.
Aux Assises du journalisme 2013 organisées à Metz en collaboration avec l’Obsweb, on a vu des choses formidables. Des tables rondes vraiment enrichissantes. Vous le savez, je vous ai inondé de tweets. Je n’aurai pas pu interroger à chaud Edwy Plenel sur le fonds Google. Et je n’aurai pas pu rencontrer les gens de TrooClick, nouvel acteur du fact-checking, une équipe française. Le matin du grand débat des Assises, avec comme »Grand témoin », Cory Haik, rédactrice en chef de l’actualité numérique et responsable du projet « Truth Teller » au Washington Post.
Voici comment les Assises présentaient cette table ronde :
Depuis plusieurs années, le fact checking se développe comme un genre journalistique à part entière. Déjà précurseurs, les Américains ont encore pris une bonne longueur d’avance dans le domaine. La version beta du « Truth Teller » a été lancée aux Etats-Unis à la fin du mois de septembre 2013. Mais la vérification de l’information peut-elle être automatisée ? Peut-on faire confiance aux algorithmes pour informer ?
Les gens de Trooclick présents aux Assises, Pierre-Albert Ruquier et Pierre Leibovici, m’ont donc informé que l’animateur de cette table ronde, Pierre Haski, le cofondateur de RUE89, allait donner la parole aux gens de Trooclick, en les présentant officiellement. Beau spot de tir, avec sur scène l’acteur américain et sa star Cory Haik, et dans les premiers rangs les petits trublions français.
A l'instar de http://sonte.com en UK ou http://smarttint.com aux US , je recherche pour un projet immobilier une solution de film transparent pouvant devenir opaque afin d'équiper une salle de réunion. Merci de vos idées et suggestions.
When ATMs were introduced more than 40 years ago, they were considered advanced technology. Today, not so much. There are 420,000 ATMs in the U.S., and on April 8, a deadline looms for nearly all of them that underscores how sluggishly the nation’s cash delivery system moves forward. That’s the day Microsoft (MSFT) cuts off tech support for Windows XP, meaning that ATMs running the software will no longer receive regular security patches and won’t be in compliance with industry standards. Most machines that get upgraded will shift to Windows 7, an operating system that became available in October 2009. (Some companies get a bit of a reprieve: For ATMs using a stripped-down version of XP known as Windows XP Embedded, which is less susceptible to viruses, Microsoft support lasts until early 2016.)
Inside every ATM casing is a computer, and like all such devices, each one runs on an OS. Microsoft’s 12-year-old Windows XP dominates the ATM market, powering more than 95 percent of the world’s machines and a similar percentage in the U.S., according to Robert Johnston, a marketing director at NCR (NCR), the largest ATM supplier in the U.S.
"Goodbye XP, hello HP" says a recent print ad. Will there be room for Raspberry Pi, Android or iOS powered machines with a user interface that gets closer to the rapidly spreading "mobile first" UX standard ?
Nest, a company founded by former Apple employee Tony Fadell that makes smart thermostats and smoke detectors, sold to Google for $3.2 billion. Take the purchase as a sign that big tech companies truly do think we'll one day live in a future where everything is connected online.
According to analysis from Business Insider Intelligence, more than 18 billion devices will be connected to the Web by 2018.
Hopefully we have a long tradition of CES award winning, pioneering companies in the IoT space. French "things" fly, capture your body and activity parameters, monitor your air in and outdoor, as well as you eating habits and, more recently, your toothbrushing patterns.
Now they need a business and an exit footprint and in that respect, the #frenchtech ecosystem will be key.
ULTRAMOBILE YEAR AHEAD: Gartner has updated its annual device forecasts for PCs, tablets, and mobile phones for the new year. On the whole, the research outfit thinks sales of all of these devices combined will grow by just over 7% in 2014, which would be a re-acceleration in growth compared to the 4% growth achieved between 2012 and 2013.
Mobile phones, both feature phones and smartphones, will dominate in terms of sales volume, with expected annual sales of almost 1.9 billion. But it will be the "ultramobiles" category, in which Gartner includes tablets, hybrids, and flip-form devices, that will set the pace for growth, with increased sales of nearly 54% during the year. We feel this is a function of growing demand for "phablets," or devices that carry a screen size somewhere between the standard 5-inch smartphone and the 8-inch tablet. Phablet shipments have already skyrocketed in key markets for mobile growth like China and India. PC sales, meanwhile, will continue to be hampered by the mobile movement. Gartner thinks PC sales will decline 7% in 2014.
ONE BILLION ANDROID DEVICES! If 2013 was the watershed year for Android in terms of market share, then 2014 will be the year Android solidifies its stronghold on the global mobile market. Gartner estimates Android will sell 1.1 billion devices for the year. They also confirm that Android blows past Apple in terms of installed base, with 1.9 billion active Android devices already in use. With slowing growth in mobile uptake in developed markets, expect Android to make massive waves with new, lower-income users in emerging mobile markets, where most new customers are priced out of the premium device market dominated by Apple. (Gartner)
Ultra Mobile year ahead... Nearly 2 Bn handsets forecasted in 2014 and 1Bn Android devices. Meanwhile Apple passed the $10Bn sales mark on the App Store.
As for the lamp itself, it's both a sleep aid and a sleek, touch-sensitive lava lamp. The device glows a shade of red to help you get to sleep — Withings says the wavelength of light helps the body generate melatonin — and for waking it shines a glowing blue.
Different shades, from purple to yellow, are available at the user's choice. A standalone iPhone app lets users do things like set wake-up times and view their sleep and environmental data, though the information will also be surfaced in the standard Withings app as well for a bigger picture look at your health (Android compatibility is coming down the line, and the device will be able to connect over legacy Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, or Wi-Fi).
In a clever twist, the lamp portion of the device can also play music and serves as a standalone alarm clock even if you aren't using your smartphone. The lamp is sensitive to touch, and you can turn the alarm on or off with a tap, and set the time for your next alarm by sliding your finger up the side of the device.
Combining light, sound and movement, Withings last tracking device is indeed a full system and goes way beyond the existing snoring / sleeping apps. Want to beta test one !
Benjamin Bratton: Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol – as embodied by TED talks – is a recipe for civilisational disaster
refreshing meta-TED talk giving us a good headstart for 2014. As french say, don't throw the baby along with the bath water, yet moving beyond intellectual placeboing is needed if we want to face and address our worlds issues instead of deferring them all to Moore's law... A must read !
If you're a Snapchat user, then you might be interested to know that someone may have found a way to save the usernames and phone numbers for 4.6 million accounts. The website SnapchatDB.info ...
Hall des expositions de Hong Kong, un matin de novembre dernier. Les sponsors de l'événement OpenStack Summit finissent d'installer leurs stands. Seules deux entreprises françaises et européennes sont présentes parmi les centaines de sociétés américaines, chinoises, indiennes... Une sous-représentation inquiétante, car c'est bien une partie du destin de la civilisation numérique qui se joue au cours de ce sommet. Créée par Rackspace et la Nasa pour proposer une alternative à Amazon dans le cloud, l'ambition de la Fondation OpenStack est la mutualisation à l'échelle de la planète de toutes les infrastructures informatiques. Rien de moins.
Redstone's Chris Anderson claims his company has a "magical" wireless networking technology that can deliver wireless data at a rate of 250 megabits per second over long distances and at very low c...
Amazon is experimenting with drones that will deliver packages within 30 minutes. CEO Jeff Bezos made the announcement in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night with Charlie Rose.
Bezos expects the drones to be fully autonomous and in operation within four or five years. He said there are numerous tests and regulations to deal with in the meantime. Amazon calls the drone delivery service Prime Air. No humans are involved. The small plastic package containing your items are loaded underneath a drone, which Amazon calls an octocopter, and automatically flown to your house.
Voici la présentation qui me servait de support pour la Keynote du Séminaire Exécutif "Smart Cities & Digital Living" que j'ai donnée au DigiWorldSummit 2013 de l'IDATE, à Montpellier.
Elle pâtit des limitations actuelles du service SlideShare :
plus d'import de présentations au format Keynote d'Apple, ce qui permettait de récupérer d'un coup les notes de l'intervenantimpossibilité d'insérer des vidéos depuis des services autres que YouTube (alors que Vimeo devient une seconde source de plus en plus crédible)
Vous trouverez ci-dessous le chemin de fer de la présentation ainsi que la video du projet Unlimited Cities "Villes sans limites".
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La seule limite est le talent. Voir sa présentation à la Singularity University, étonnant.