9 posts and columns on humans

Google’s Eric Schmidt Shows Off Movie Studio, a Tablet Video-Editing App

in Mobile on February 15, 2011 at 8:58 am PT

Speaking at Mobile World Congress, the Google executive says that contrary to critics, devices are actually improving human connections. His talk is just getting started. Click here for live coverage from Mobilized’s Ina Fried.

Google’s Honeycomb Designer: Humans Shouldn’t Have to Do a Computer’s Work

in Mobile on February 2, 2011 at 4:10 am PT

Ahead of an event detailing the new Honeycomb version of Android, Google’s Matias Duarte talked to Mobilized about his philosophy on computing and why humans and computers each need to stick to what they are good at. Google is set to detail Honeycomb at an event in Mountain View later on Wednesday and Mobilized will have live coverage of that starting at 10 am PT.

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Facebook's "Social" Chief Pushes Human Interaction

in News on October 11, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Sitting in the cubicle next to founder Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook Inc.’s headquarters is a young executive who is taking on a critical challenge for the world’s largest social network: making it more social.

Insert Bad "Google Captchas reCAPTCHA" Pun Here

in News on September 16, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

Evidently, Google’s efforts to create a new CAPTCHA system that requires people to rotate images until they’re upright aren’t moving as quickly as the company would like. Because this morning, the search giant said it had acquired reCAPTCHA, developer of the Web’s preeminent CAPTCHA technology.
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Insert Bad “Google Captchas reCAPTCHA” Pun Here

in News on September 16, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

Evidently, Google’s efforts to create a new CAPTCHA system that requires people to rotate images until they’re upright aren’t moving as quickly as the company would like. Because this morning, the search giant said it had acquired reCAPTCHA, developer of the Web’s preeminent CAPTCHA technology.
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Study: Your Brain Isn’t Built for Twitter

in Media on April 14, 2009 at 9:55 am PT

Ever worry that the ever-increasing barrage of status updates from Facebook, Twitter and every other real-time, hey-look-what-I’m-doing and look-what-happened-just-this-very-second service may be outstripping your brain’s capacity to process them? You’re probably right, says a new study from a University of Southern California neuroscience group.
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