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
Cool TechGamertell – The reactions to the infamous art installation by Douglas Edric Stanley (wherein an interactive game of Space Invaders was superimposed over images of the attacked World Trade center towers) were almost entirely negative. The work was trashed as an offensive, meaningless, tasteless piece and Stanley ended up taking it down from it’s display at [...] read more
Daily Galaxy – The most dangerous weapon on the battlefield of the future is information. Just ask Tom Clancy, or any of the hundred knockoffs using his name. But we grew up being told the most dangerous weapon would be lasers, usually hand-portable [...] read more
Tech Guide – Recently someone noticed a “glitch” in EA Sports Tiger Woods 08, where Tiger Woods plays a shot standing on the water, the gamer created a video and the video soon became viral spreading all over the internet, People even named the shot as “Jesus Shot”, Now EA Sports sniffed a VIRAL promotional opportunity in this and instead of acknowledging the mistake, they replied back with a video to the poster promoting their upcoming golf title – Tiger Woods [...] read more
