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The future of biometrics is personalization and experience

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The future of biometric data tracking isn’t about devices, it’s about experiences
Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com

Every­where you look these days, there seems to be yet anoth­er sensor-enabled device or mobile app that wants to mon­i­tor every­thing from your heart rate and pos­ture to your brain waves and breath­ing pat­terns.

Dr. Leslie Saxon is the found…

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Move to the Cloud in the Least Expensive iPad Mini

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By NICK BILTON, nytimes.com

Apple charges $100 more for storage when you buy the the 32- gigabyte iPad Mini over the 16-gigabyte model. But if you take the time to move your files and other material online, using a number of free or low-cost services, you will be able to buy…

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Move to the Cloud in the Least Expensive iPad Mini

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iPad mini review

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Review: The skinny on the iPad mini—it’s not the size that counts
Jacqui Cheng, arstechnica.com

For­mer Apple CEO Steve Jobs famous­ly trashed 7” tablets as being “dead in the water” in 2010. Two years later, under the reign of new CEO Tim Cook, Apple has released its own minia­ture tablet—one that has a diag­o­nal screen mea­sure­ment of 7.…

RT @ejacqui: In case you missed it by following election stuff yesterday, my iPad mini review is up at Ars: http://flpbd.it/yaLR2 http://flpbd.it/FQycp

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Samsung patents voice recognition for emotional state

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Samsung patent ties emotional states to virtual faces through voice, shows when we’re cracking up
Jon Fingas, engadget.com

Voice recog­ni­tion usu­al­ly applies to com­mu­ni­ca­tion only in the most util­i­tar­i­an sense, whether it’s to trans­late on the spot or to keep those hands on the wheel while send­ing a text mes­sage. Sam­sung has just been grant­ed a US pate…

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