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The short version is this: Microsoft OneDrive is a digital locker that allows you to seamlessly back up and share you digital files with students–pdfs, images, .docs, ppts, etc. You can also collaborate on files, create unique sharing terms, and more–just like Google Drive, only this time with the support of the best word processor and productivity suite in the world in Microsoft Office. (They even have a free version of Word you can use in-browser.) Via John Evans No comment yet.
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Technological change is accelerating today at an unprecedented speed and could create a world we can barely begin to imagine.
In March 2001, futurist Ray Kurzweil published an essay arguing that humans found it hard to comprehend their own future. It was clear from history, he argued, that technological change is exponential — even though most of us are unable to see it — and that in a few decades, the world would be unrecognizably different. “We won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate),” he wrote, in ‘The Law of Accelerating Returns’. Fifteen years on, Kurzweil is a director of engineering at Google and his essay has acquired a cult following among futurists. Some of its predictions are outlandish or over-hyped — but technology experts say that its basic tenets often hold. The evidence, they say, lies in the exponential advances in a suite of enabling technologies ranging from computing power to data storage, to the scale and performance of the Internet (see ‘Onwards and upwards’). These advances are creating tipping points — moments at which technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), biology, nanotechnology and 3D printing cross a threshold and trigger sudden and significant change. “We live in a mind-blowingly different world than our grandparents,” says Fei-Fei Li, head of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in California, and this will be all the more true for our children and grandchildren (see 'Future focus'). Kurzweil and others have argued that people find this pace of change almost impossible to grasp, because it is human nature to perceive rates of progress as linear, not exponential — much as when one zooms in on a small part of a circle and it appears as an almost straight line. People tend to focus on the past few years, but pulling back reveals a much more dramatic change. Many things that society now takes for granted would have seemed like futuristic nonsense just a few decades ago. We can search across billions of pages, images and videos on the web; mobile phones have become ubiquitous; billions of connected smart sensors monitor in real time everything from the state of the planet to our heartbeats, sleep and steps; and drones and satellites the size of shoeboxes roam the skies. If the pace of change is exponentially speeding up, all those advances could begin to look trivial within a few years. Take ‘deep learning’, a form of artificial intelligence that uses powerful microprocessor chips and algorithms to simulate neural networks that train and learn through experience, using massive data sets. Last month, the Google-owned AI company DeepMind used deep learning to enable a computer to beat for the first time a human professional at the game of Go, long considered one of the grand challenges of AI. Researchers told Nature that they foresee a future just 20 years from now — or even sooner — in which robots with AI are as common as cars or phones and are integrated into families, offices and factories. The “disruptive exponentials” of technological change will create “a world where everybody can have a robot and robots are pervasively integrated in the fabric of life”, says Daniela Rus, head of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. After decades in development, applications of AI are moving into the real world, says Li, with the arrival of self-driving cars, virtual reality and more. Progress in AI and robotics is likely to accelerate rapidly as deep-pocketed companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft pour billions of dollars into these fields. Gill Pratt, former head of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Robotics Challenge, asked last year whether robotics is about to undergo a ‘Cambrian explosion’ — a period of rapid machine diversification (G. A. PrattJ. Econ. Perspect. 29, 51–60; 2015). Although a single robot cannot yet match the learning ability of a toddler, Pratt pointed out that robots have one huge advantage: humans can communicate with each other at only 10 bits per second — whereas robots can communicate through the Internet at speeds 100 million times faster. This could, he said, result in multitides of robots building on each other’s learning experiences at lightning speed. Pratt was hired last September to head the Toyota Research Institute, a new US$1-billion AI and robotics research venture headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Many researchers say that it is important to prepare for this new world. “We need to become much more responsible in terms of designing and operating these robots as they become more powerful,” says Li. In January 2015, a group including Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking penned an open letter calling for extensive research to maximize the benefits of AI and avoid its potential pitfalls. The letter has now been signed by more than 8,000 people. Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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A small update from Google has made it easier to view the sharing settings on shared Google Drive folders.
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Comment concilier tablette sous Android et grand écran de divertissement pour toute la maison ? La marque Alcatel tente sa chance avec la tablette polyvalente de 17,3 pouces Alcatel Xess, tour à tour lecteur multimédia, plate-forme ludique ou véritable ordinateur d'appoint sous Android. Via Freewares&Tutos
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Développement et Tests : Microsoft donne un coup d'arrêt fatal à Astoria, un projet qui devait permettre aux développeurs de porter facilement les apps Android vers Windows 10... Via Freewares&Tutos
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Le protocole sur lequel repose le Bitcoin, un système d'échanges sécurisé et dénué de tout contrôle central, révolutionnera bien plus que la finance. Via nadia filali 
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February 23, 2016 5:24 PM
C'est pour cela que la @CaisseDesDepots s'y intéresse !
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viewers are actually watching more TV than ever before. They’re simply shifting to on-demand options from cable operators and broadband services. Via Claude Seyrat
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Google commence à développer un algorithme qui sait deviner d'où une photo a été prise, même lorsque l'internaute a désactivé les données Exif de géolocalisation.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest narratives in the world, got a surprise update last month when the Sulaymaniyah Museum in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced that it had discovered 20 new lines of the Babylonian-Era poem of gods, mortals, and monsters. Via René Z.
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Physicists have discovered a new elementary particle—the latest member to be added to the exotic species known as tetraquarks. Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
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Evolution des équipements, pratiques des internautes, nouvelles tendances... Chaque année, Médiamétrie livre son bilan de l'année Internet écoulée.
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The most challenging aspect of app development is marketing and raising awareness of the app, according to a new survey by InMobi. Via Marylene Delbourg-Delphis
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Apple has indicated that it plans to upgrade the security on iPhones and its iCloud services. Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY |
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation today introduced the Raspberry Pi 3. With the latest Raspberry Pi, the company is introducing improved performance and some new Via F. Thunus
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Au Japon, les industriels Ricoh et Omron lancent un fonds d’investissement de 5 milliards de yens (45 millions de dollars) pour soutenir des start-up dans le numérique. Une initiative inhabituelle au Japon. Via Pascal Boiron
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The prospective scale of the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to fill anyone looking from the outside with the technical equivalent of agoraphobia. However, from the inside, the view is very different. Looked at in detail, it is a series of intricate threads being aligned by a complex array of organizations. Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
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* Multi-platform Content Curation - That phrase describes Scoop.it's mission so they CRUSH WP here too. http://sco.lt/590bYn Via Martin (Marty) Smith 
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When stats confirm anecdotal evidence: Good job @Martin (Marty) Smith , you nailed it, I had the same Scoop-it-first, feeling, and here you come with numbers and case for Scoop.it. It's all about shared interests (what you rightly called, tribe of advocates) and friendly platform. Thank you for mention
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Est-ce que « le Apple » peut devenir une unité de mesure pour comprendre la santé économique d'un pays ? Petite expérience en infographie pour mettre perspective le PIB des États par rapport à l'entreprise la plus riche du monde.
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At Microsoft’s Build Developer Conference last year, it was announced that Microsoft was looking at an easier way to port Android apps to the Windows 10 Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
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Les lunettes connectées, actuellement en développement, représentent un nouveau pas vers l'omniscience. Mais elles menacent de mettre à mal notre anonymat.
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Des publicités ? Dans Windows 10 ? C'est ce que Microsoft a décidé pour les utilisateur ayant configuré Windows à la une pour leur écran de verrouillage. Via Freewares&Tutos
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Les containers par Docker un tournant pour le Cloud : Cet technologie permet de rendre les solutions Cloud plus flexible. Via Serge FLEITH |
