Mads Pedersen

Digital Media Manager @ Grundfos. Flipping stories about business-driven development, creative use of digital media and technology, social business.

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Artificial Intelligence
Scientists Begin Work on Reverse-Engineering the Brain
futurism.com
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have a new project: Reverse-engineer the brain. Ultimately, their goal is to “make computers think more …
Chromium
Microsoft Putting Edge on Chromium Will Fundamentally Change the Web
VICE - Owen Williams
The move will allow deeper integration of Chromium and Chrome on Windows, which will lead to major improvements in performance and battery life. Owen Williams is a freelance writer and developer thinking
Technology
Microsoft sounds an alarm over facial recognition technology
The Verge - Casey Newton
How Chinese-style monitoring could come to the United States Sophisticated facial-recognition technology is at the heart of many of China’s more dystopian security initiatives. With 200 million surveillance
Customers
Chat as a Support Channel - What You Need to Know
dixa.com
Chat has become an increasingly popular form of contact in customer service. This makes sense as customers can get an immediate response to a …
Renewable Energy
How Energy Companies Will Survive When Renewable Energy Is Free
Forbes - Jeff McMahon
Envision Energy founder and CEO Lei Zhang likes to look at the numbers. And when he looked at the numbers behind the falling cost of renewable energy, he began to worry. “We are convinced renewable energy
Cognition
People Over 40 Shouldn't Work More Than 3 Days a Week, Study Says
Money - By Stacey Leasca/Travel + Leisure
Tell your boss. Let’s be honest: nobody is really a fan of the five-day work week. But if you want a reason to workless, science has your back. If …
Windows 10
Google welcomes Microsoft’s move to Chromium, but Mozilla doesn’t
The Verge - Tom Warren
Microsoft is moving its Edge Windows browser to Google’s open source Chromium rendering engine. The move will mean Edge will be far more compatible with websites, but Microsoft will also be able to contribute
Social Media
5 Social Media Trends Hootsuite Sees Taking Hold in 2019
Adweek - By David Cohen
Social media management platform Hootsuite shared five trends that it sees for the sector in 2019. Hootsuite chief marketing officer Penny Wilson …
Fuel Efficiency
An Engine That is Faster, Lighter, and More Powerful? Meet the Technology of Tomorrow
futurism.com
Engine technology is not a very glamorous. Or at least, it doesn’t often steal headlines, but of course, in relation to a number of technologies, …
Social Media
Swiss hotel chain offers a 'social media sitter' to handle your Instagram while you relax
TNW - Bryan Clark
Ibis, A popular European hotel chain, just introduced the world to the “social media sitter.” It’s the answer to a problem few knew existed, and even fewer though we needed professional help with. “Enjoy
San Francisco
CHP: Drunk driver slept while Tesla appeared to drive Hwy 101 on autopilot
SFGate - By Ashley McBride and J.D. Morris
When a pair of California Highway Patrol officers pulled alongside a car cruising down Highway 101 in Redwood City before dawn Friday, they reported a shocking sight: a man fast asleep behind the wheel.
TV
The Real Reasons Netflix Is Cancelling Its Marvel Shows
Forbes - Mark Hughes
This week saw the curtain fall on yet another Marvel-Netflix superhero TV show, as Daredevil was officially cancelled by the streaming service giant after a critically acclaimed third season. Previously,
Employment
How to Create a Sense of Urgency Around Office 365 Adoption Activities
cmswire.com - Asif Rehmani
Stagnant Office 365 user adoption initiatives too often become failed initiatives. As usage stays minimal, so does productivity, making it hard for …
Cards Against Humanity
Cards Against Humanity is selling diamonds and TVs for 99% off and totally winning (?) Black Friday
TechCrunch - Greg Kumparak
Half of my family (and half of the Internet, it seems) all has eyes and phones locked on the same Black Friday sales page right now — and, likely to the disappointment of the big retailers, it’s not any
Technology
Drop the Batteries—Diamonds and Lasers Could Power Your Drone
WIRED - Eric Adams
Drones have arrived in US airspace, and now they are multiplying. By 2022, 700,000 of the little unmanned aircraft could be exploring American skies, …
Artificial Intelligence
In a major breakthrough, Google unveils an AI that learns on its own
futurism.com
Surpassing the Masters We’ve written before about how Google is one of the most prominent tech companies leading the way when it comes to the …
Molecular Biology
There's a Huge Problem With the Core of the Human Genome Project
Inverse - Emma Betuel
"The model needs to change.” The Human Genome Project, which began in the 1990s, was Homo sapiens’ successful attempt to map out the entirety of our …
Chatbots
The story of "Lenny" -- a chatbot designed to make telemarketing unprofitable
boingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder
I get several robocalls a day, along with Microsoft tech support scams, and IRS scams. The calls get forwarded to Jolly Roger Telephone bots that …
Technology
If Facebook's new auto-comment feature isn't rock bottom, it has to be close
TNW - Bryan Clark
It’s been two tumultuous years. Still, it’s highly unlikely we’ve witnessed the moment Facebook hit bottom. A new feature, spotted by some users on Monday, may offer a clue as to what that moment could
Social Media
Facebook Is Testing Auto-Responses For Live Video And Some Of The Suggestions Are Offending People
buzzfeednews.com - Ryan Mac
"So I’m just noticing that Facebook has a thoughts and prayers autoresponder on our Chicago Hospital shooting livestream and I have …
Opinion
How Workplace Simplicity Impacts Company Results
Forbes - Kimberly A. Whitler
I will never forget an early lesson from my time at Procter and Gamble. I watched the head of sales, at a national sales meeting, walk through a complicated strategic plan. It was the type of plan that
Usability
5 Things Everyone Should Know About UX Work
interaction-design.org
The howls of frustration that we hear on many UX projects are often to do with how badly misunderstood the UX role is in business. Here are 5 things …
Technology
VR is leading us into the next generation of sports media
VentureBeat - Mateusz Przepiórkowski
The way we watch sports is changing, and it’s leading us into the next generation of media consumption. That may seem like an abstract concept. What’s next when we can already watch pretty much anything
7 Winning Instagram Contest Ideas (And How to Run Your Own)
hootsuite.com - Christina Newberry
An Instagram contest is a great way to draw attention to your brand on the platform that has more than one billion users. Contests and giveaways will …
Search Engine Marketing
LinkedIn Revamps Pages From Scratch, Making It Interactive
mediapost.com - Laurie Sullivan
LinkedIn, Microsoft’s business network, announced major product updates this week to Pages and its News feed. The changes aim to help the company …
China
China's "artificial sun" is now hot enough for nuclear fusion
futurism.com - Kristin Houser
It’s a Hot One Things are heating up in China. On Tuesday, a team from China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science announced that its Experimental …
Consciousness
Could consciousness all come down to the way things vibrate?
theconversation.com - Tam Hunt
Why is my awareness here, while yours is over there? Why is the universe split in two for each of us, into a subject and an infinity of objects? How …
Singularity
World's first AI news anchor unveiled in China
The Guardian - Lily Kuo in Wuzhen
China stands ready to safeguard the sound order of cyberspace. Huang Kunming China’s state news agency Xinhua this week introduced the newest members of its newsroom: AI anchors who will report “tirelessly”
World Economic Forum
8 fascinating and fearsome frontiers of science you should know about
weforum.org - David Gleicher
A range of technologies are coming of age all around us, transforming our world in complex ways that are hard to predict. Anticipating what’s to come …
Thinking Uses Your Brain's Navigation System, New Report
Forbes - Andrea Morris
Think of a pink elephant riding a scooter. If your brain were scanned right now, neuroscientists would see a region of your spongy think organ lighting up. What they wouldn’t see is a pink elephant riding

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Scientists Begin Work on Reverse-Engineering the Brain

Microsoft Putting Edge on Chromium Will Fundamentally Change the Web

Microsoft sounds an alarm over facial recognition technology

Chat as a Support Channel - What You Need to Know

How Energy Companies Will Survive When Renewable Energy Is Free

People Over 40 Shouldn't Work More Than 3 Days a Week, Study Says

Google welcomes Microsoft’s move to Chromium, but Mozilla doesn’t

5 Social Media Trends Hootsuite Sees Taking Hold in 2019

An Engine That is Faster, Lighter, and More Powerful? Meet the Technology of Tomorrow

Swiss hotel chain offers a 'social media sitter' to handle your Instagram while you relax

CHP: Drunk driver slept while Tesla appeared to drive Hwy 101 on autopilot

The Real Reasons Netflix Is Cancelling Its Marvel Shows

How to Create a Sense of Urgency Around Office 365 Adoption Activities

Cards Against Humanity is selling diamonds and TVs for 99% off and totally winning (?) Black Friday

Drop the Batteries—Diamonds and Lasers Could Power Your Drone

In a major breakthrough, Google unveils an AI that learns on its own

There's a Huge Problem With the Core of the Human Genome Project

The story of "Lenny" -- a chatbot designed to make telemarketing unprofitable

If Facebook's new auto-comment feature isn't rock bottom, it has to be close

Facebook Is Testing Auto-Responses For Live Video And Some Of The Suggestions Are Offending People

How Workplace Simplicity Impacts Company Results

5 Things Everyone Should Know About UX Work

VR is leading us into the next generation of sports media

7 Winning Instagram Contest Ideas (And How to Run Your Own)

LinkedIn Revamps Pages From Scratch, Making It Interactive

China's "artificial sun" is now hot enough for nuclear fusion

Could consciousness all come down to the way things vibrate?

World's first AI news anchor unveiled in China

8 fascinating and fearsome frontiers of science you should know about

Thinking Uses Your Brain's Navigation System, New Report