Picking Up The Crumbs

Simply awesome…

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A few days ago a new feature landed in Firefox Nightly that makes closing multiple tabs easier than it was before.

I often find myself in situations where I have multiple tabs that I opened only to look at for short periods of time. Sometimes I reach this state while reading articles on Hacker News or looking at funny pictures on Reddit. At the end of looking at the tabs, it would be nice if Firefox had a way to close these ephemeral tabs so you can get back to your previous work quicker.

Well, Firefox now does! If you open lots of tabs from Reddit and then want to close all of the tabs to the right of Reddit, just right-click on the Reddit tab and choose “Close Tabs to the Right”. It’s easy and quick!

Why “close tabs to the right” and not “close tabs to the left”?…

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Taking on Twitter, Facebook will send TV networks more data

That’s a point right there.

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Facebook (s FB) is going to start sharing weekly data reports with ABC (s DIS), NBC (s GE), Fox (s NWS) and CBS (s CBS). The Wall Street Journal‘s Digits notes that the reports will include how many likes, comments and shares TV episodes get on the social network. They will also include some data from private posts:

“The new television data report will tally all posts, including private ones, but Facebook says the data is collected anonymously and will only be shown in aggregate to protect users’ privacy.

The new Facebook reports are fairly limited. They show, for example, that a recent episode of ABC’s ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ generated more than 1 million interactions from some 750 thousand people.”

The move is seen in part as an attempt to compete with Twitter, which has actively wooed TV networks with data on tweets about their shows. As my…

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Analytics for ERP: the benefits of big data in the cloud

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Traditional ERP systems were designed to support in-house, vertically integrated processes and supply chains that rarely changed. The analytics that supported those systems were equally stubborn. Modern logistics are far more fluid, and partners, suppliers and customers demand personalized service. Moving ERP to the cloud can bring flexibility to your back office. Cloud-based analytics can add real-time decision support that allows you convert flexibility into efficiency, shortening production cycles, adapting to disruptions, and responding to customer demand before the customer even asks.

In this webinar, our panel will discuss these topics:

• How have machine-generated data and other emerging data inputs strained existing ERP systems and analytics?
• How have shorter production cycles and the supply chains that support them affected traditional ERP systems?
• Which ERP applications will see the most benefit from the cloud?
• What efficiencies can businesses realistically expect from cloud-based analytics?
• How can businesses transition to the cloud…

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The iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c are coming to Virgin Mobile October 1

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Starting next week, you’ll be able to pick up a new iPhone 5s(s aapl) or iPhone 5c on Virgin Mobile (if it can keep them in stock, that is). The contract-free carrier will be offering Apple’s latest iPhones with unlimited data for the full retail price upfront.

Virgin’s data plans start as low as $35 and included unlimited 3G and 4G data (though speeds are throttled significantly once you reach a monthly cap of 2.5GB). If you sign up for Auto Pay, Virgin is currently offering iPhone users a $5 monthly discount, which might make this the least expensive iPhone plan you’ll find. You’ll have to pay full retail price for the phone upfront, though, which starts at a whopping $549 for the iPhone 5c and $649 for the iPhone 5s. But those low monthly rates are incentive enough for many buyers.

Earlier this week Kevin Fitchard reported that…

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How deep learning can teach computers Spanish without a tutor

Quite …notable

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In August, Google open sourced a tool called word2vec that lets developers and data scientists experiment with language-based deep learning models. Now, the company has published a research paper showing off another use for the technology — automatically detecting the similarities between different languages to create, for example, more accurate dictionaries.

The method works by analyzing how words are used in different languages and representing those relationships as vectors on a two-dimensional graph. Obviously, a computer doesn’t need a visualization to understand the results of the computations, but this one from the paper is instructive in showing the general idea of what the technique does.

Here’s how authors Tomas Mikolov, Quoc V. Le and Ilya Sutskever describe the concept and the chart:

“In Figure 1, we visualize the vectors for numbers and animals in English and Spanish, and it can be easily seen that these concepts have similar geometric arrangements. The…

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Samsung introduces gold Galaxy S 4

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Not to be outdone by Apple(s aapl) and its new gold iPhone 5s, Samsung is slapping a fresh coat of paint on its five-month-old Galaxy S 4 and releasing a gold edition overseas. Sparkling.

Information about the new color phones is sparse. Samsung introduced the phone via its Samsung Mobile Arabia Twitter feed, picturing pink and brown versions of the device, each with gold trim. There is no release date, pricing, or information of any other kind, but I wouldn’t expect these phones to see a release within the U.S.

I’m not sure a limited release is such a bad thing. I was skeptical about a gold iPhone 5s, but Apple’s toned-down champagne color, while still not quite my fancy, manages to look sleek, attractive, and very Apple. Judging by Samsung’s press photos, on the other hand, it is going for something much more glitzy, ostentatious, and, well,

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Samsung bets on its new ISOCELL image sensor for premium smartphone cameras

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Samsung said on Tuesday it thinks it has a smartphone camera sensor that will produce better color images in general but particularly so in low-light conditions. The new technology is called ISOCELL and the name actually describes how the sensor works: It can isolate the light coming into each individual pixel.

“ISOCELL technology forms a physical barrier between neighboring pixels – isolating the pixel. This isolation enables more photons to be collected from the micro-lens and absorbed into the correct pixel’s photodiode minimizing undesired electrical crosstalk between pixels and allowing expanded full well capacity (FWC).”

How can that pixel isolation improve photos? Samsung says the crosstalk between pixels is reduced by 30 percent, which translates into a 30 percent greater dynamic range in colors. The sensor is also backside illuminated, which helps gather more light in less than optimal conditions.

The company hasn’t provided any image samples to show the…

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