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Live from Expand: What’s Next? A Glimpse Into the Future of Technology (video)

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Tired the present? Great, us too. We’ve congregated a lot of futurists and various other thinkers to prognosticate on what’s following in the world of innovation. Let’s satisfy back right here for Expand 2 and see who got exactly what right. Deal?

March 16, 2013 8:15 PM EDT

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A Rare Glimpse At North Korea’s Tech Culture

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Author: jos

North Koreans are beginning to get access to cellphones, tablets, and even social networking. But freedom of speech is still elusive.

Another #NKorean propaganda poster touting use of #technology in farming. #nksocial From Jean H. Lee

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Last week North Korea launched its first 3G data network. Access is severely limited — citizens can’t access the network, while foreigners can — which allowed Associated Press reporter Jean H. Lee to be the first person ever to send a tweet from the country. It's a big step forward, considering that back in 2008, when Lee first entered North Korea, she and other foreigners had to leave their smart phones at the airport.

BuzzFeed met Lee at South By Southwest where she shared insight into North Korea's small but growing tech culture. While reporting on North Korea with photographer David Guttenfelder, she has been posting photos to Instagram and tweeting with regularity. The first photo she posted was of a sign welcoming nuclear testing scientists to Pyongyang for celebrations, which for her and others in North Korea was a signal that, at least for a couple days, there wouldn't be any nuclear tests — the scientists would be otherwise occupied.

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A Glimpse Into Google’s Brain, Hidden In A Spreadsheet App

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Author: Matthew Wilson

Give it two examples, and Google's spreadsheet can make a list of almost anything. A strange peek at how the Google — and by proxy, the internet — sees the world.

Yesterday TechCrunch reported that if you make a spreadsheet in Google Drive (Google Docs, formerly), enter and highlight the names of two beers, and pull down on the corner of the spreadsheet cell while holding Option or Control, the app will automatically fill the following cells with the names of other beers. The information is pulled, seemingly, from nowhere.

“Someone at Google really likes beer,” the post said, implying that the categories were created by Google employees. Turns out, the lists are pulled from Google’s search database using an algorithm that creates sets, or categories, of common words and names. It's essentially Google-powered word association — not a window into the world of Google engineers, but into the internet's collective view of how things are related to one another.

It doesn't just work for beer, car brands, colors, states, or websites, as reported, but just about any category you can think of. The feature was an outgrowth of a discontinued Google Labs project called Google Sets, so it's no longer pulling real time information.

There are useful applications — it's easy to imagine using the list of states, for example, in creating a survey. “It is also one of those things we do things at Google that's whimsical and just for fun,” says a Google spokesperson. “It is a snapshot of words and concepts that are connected to each other on the web.” And, in a small but real way, a peek into the giant data-logged brain of the most powerful search engine in the world.

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Visualized: Cassini probe gets a glimpse of Saturn’s shadow

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The Cassini room probe has accumulated several memories of Saturn in its eight years, swinging by the world’s moons and even paying attention to lighting storms. However, we’re being treated to an uncommon sight today: the dark side of Saturn. A freshly processed set of 60 images, originally absorbed October, reveals what the gas giant is like from near the center of its shadow. The a little trippy color plan stems from a mix of noticeable, near-infrared and violet light in the collage. Sitting in the darkness enables even more than simply very images, as well– it reveals information about Saturn’s environment and rings that would otherwise be obscured by sunlight. Simply make certain to etch this mosaic in your memory. The last time Cassini had an opportunity for this kind of snapshot was in 2006, which dismisses any type of fast retakes.

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In Hurricane Sandy’s path: a glimpse of NYC after the storm

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Above: Lower Manhattan was plunged into darkness after a Con Ed transformer exploded during the storm. (Photo by Nilay Patel)

Frankenstorm. Superstorm. Sandy. Whatever you want to call it, this extremely unusual severe weather event has wrought havoc on the lives of millions of Americans along the East Coast.

As Hurricane Sandy approached New York, meteorologists and armchair weathermen alike struggled to explain how such a freakish weather event could occur in late October. Everyone agreed it was dangerous though. When the storm hit, the internet was inundated with photos, videos, tweets, and shenanigans. Now that the immediate danger has mostly passed, the focus here has shifted to recovery, repair, and rebuilding. Many Verge staffers live in New York. We collected photos we found striking and took a few ourselves. These images offer a glimpse of what life…

First Windows 8 ad airs, provides a glimpse at Microsoft’s marketing blitz

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Author: Brian McKinnell

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Microsoft’s Windows 8 marketing campaign has officially begun. The first ad debuted today, featuring a countdown that stops at eight with the tagline “Windows reimagined.” Microsoft is reportedly spending a huge amount of cash on its marketing blitz for Windows 8, with the company focusing on huge billboards for its Surface tablet in US cities.

Advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky is being the first set of Windows 8 ads that will air on national TV ahead of October 26th. Microsoft is holding a special media launch for Surface and Windows 8 on October 25th, with a number of special holiday pop-up stores opening at midnight on October 26th to sell Windows 8 PCs and tablets. This first ad is just one of many, we expect that…

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BlackBerry ‘L-Series’ image surfaces with glimpse of the app launcher

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Author: Jamie Colby

BlackBerry 10 L-Series

RIM has been displaying its upcoming BlackBerry 10 devices behind closed doors for a month or so now, which suggests that the inescapable leaks were bound to come. To start, N4BB has a picture of just what’s widely-assumed to be the very first device running BB10, and it bears a small resemblance to the first pictures of the “London” we first exposed last November. It’s additionally yet another appearance at the app launcher on BlackBerry 10, though we’re hoping that the squared-off look of the symbols and their labels is just a placeholder for a more polished, end product. Provided the acquisition, it’s not unusual to see DocsToGo represented here, and the other notable image is for “StoryMaker,” evidently for video modifying.

The “L-Series” phone also made an earlier …

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Glimpse shows you the fashions of Facebook (hands-on)

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Author: Jamie Colby

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When Pinterest launched last year as part of a new wave of social curation tools it simplified sharing what you were into by “pinning” stuff from around the web to your personal site. As a Pinterest user you can see what other people are sharing and follow individuals with similar tastes, allowing you to discover new stuff that would be inaccessible without a group of sufficiently arty friends to draw from. Now shopping portal TheFind brings us Glimpse — crossing Pinterest’s approach to discovery with the tyranny of the Facebook Like mob. However, despite the novel idea, what Glimpse has on offer looks a lot more like the Top 40 than Pinterest’s eclectic record collection.

Once you enable the Glimpse app on your Facebook account, a…

This Is The Best Glimpse Into Foxconn Yet (Video)

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Author: Gabe Hall

The shroud surrounding Foxconn is slowing being pulled back. Once a very secretive OEM manufacturer, the company has started to let reporters and their cameras inside their facilities in an effort to clear its name. The video here comes by way of Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz, the publication’s Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz partly responsible for the unraveling of Mike Daisey’s Foxconn exaggeration several weeks ago. His look lacks some of the sensationalism of ABC’s Bill Weir report, but Schmitz’s videos shows a first-rate manufacturing facility with the most dangerous aspect being the tedious work that comes naturally with mass manufacturing.

Foxconn is currently operating under the world’s eye. After Daisey’s account was found to be more theatrics than facts, activists and rivals mostly took to the sidelines, just waiting for another incident at Foxconn to rekindle the world’s anger. And it will come. Something else will happen at Foxconn that will cause people to raise their arms and yell at Apple while mostly ignoring HP, Dell, Amazon, and all the rest of Foxconn’s clients.

But Foxconn will soldier on, pumping out shiny iPads and critical Cisco routers as if nothing happened.

TechCrunch’s John Biggs spent a few days in Foxconn’s Shenzhen compound last year. As did Rob Schmitz, Biggs found a modern facility void of any of Daisey’s reported atrocities. Read Biggs’ fantastic series here.

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Augmented Reality Provides Glimpse At A United Korea

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Author: Alexander McQueen

While the idea of a reunited Korea is one that never dies, it’s also one that seems rather unlikely in the short term. Well thanks to the work of augmented reality artist Mark Skwarek, tourists and South Korean nationals are afforded a glimpse of what was, and someday may be.

Mark’s Layar-powered Korean Unification Project “tries to heal the scars left by years of conflict in the Korean peninsula by removing the Korean Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] and returning it to its natural state before Korea was divided.” Smartphone and tablet users can go to one of two (for now) viewing locations and fire up the application for a look around. They’ll be treated to images of a landscape that, thanks to its use of erasAR, erases the signs of separation (think barriers, walls, weapons, the works) between the two countries.

That it only works at a few locations along the North/South border is lamentable, but it’s a truly novel idea. I imagine (or at least hope) that it will get a lot of mileage out of the younger set, not because of any particular political leanings but because it illustrates a part of history that otherwise wouldn’t have existed outside of textbooks. At the very least, I hope it inspires some intrepid youth to write some decent alternate history fiction.

In case you aren’t due to fly out to South Korea any time soon, here’s a video that should approximate the experience:

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