FASTforward Blog – Can machines understand the feelings expressed in text? Social media (including blogs, discussion groups, private emails, etc) and mainstream press (web pages, newswires, announcements, etc) are full of quirky, subtle cues about people’s attitudes and opinions. Harvesting this information has proven to be valuable for tracking companies’ reputations, playing financial markets, analyzing customer loyalty, [...] read more

Geeks are Sexy Technology News – Just a quick post to warn Playstation 3 owners to wait a bit before updating their console to the latest firmware. It seems that quite a few users on the official Playstation forum are reporting that the new 2.4 firmware bricked their unit. On some cases, people are writing that the SIXAXIS controller refuses to [...] read more

Geeks are Sexy Technology News – When I worked at the Department of Homeland Security, I remembered hearing discussions about creating security by denying access to electronics or control systems.  The idea was that in a crowd of people, like in a protest group or political rally, cell phones could be dampened in a region to prevent hostile [...] read more