These days, if you are surfing the Web from a mobile device odds are you are doing it not from a smartphone, but from some type of tablet. For the first time tablets have surpassed smartphones for percentage of website views, according to a study done by Adobe.
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This piece entitled Wind was created on a computer using Photoshop tools that mimicked acrylic painting. Raymond Alvarez is the artist who is exploring 3D printing for production of his many art images.
Forgive me for being an optimist amid all the trending gloom, but 3D printing could lift the economy as well as bring about impactful and meaningful change. Whether you hate energy companies, or not, my simple analysis will give you a smile. Energy companies will be getting fewer consumer dollars. But that’s just the start.
Did you know that you can write a computer program to fire a canon? The demonstration I witnessed involved a T-shirt and a “potato gun.” Potato guns have been around since I was in college (more than 20 years ago). Basically, it is a plastic pipe that has been converted to fire tennis balls.
The military won’t be interested. They wouldn’t be impressed by the gun I saw. It was just one T-shirt gently floating on Boulder’s October air, but it hit me right between the temples. An armload or two of cotton ammunition found its way to a recent Ruby conference. I’m happy for the folks who watched the demonstration because what that demo did for me is fire up brain cells.
Last December, I graduated from the Davinci Coders program. I know a little Ruby on Rails. I know enough to start doing some interesting projects of my own…
Increased risk of death for people who eat a diet of processed meat.
Vegetarians have healthier hearts but people who have diets high in processed meat — regardless of whether or not it contains horse — are at a significantly increased risk of death due to cardiovascular disease, and to a lesser extent, cancer.
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For every emergency situation, a city’s first response
will be to “get eyes on” the situation
Futurist Thomas Frey: Yes, drones have been around for a long time and the military has already committed countless billions to drone R&D, but when a U.S. Senator dedicates 13 hours to filibuster the topic of drones, it signals far more than a token political move.
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Pixar
Emma Coates, a director and storyboard artist at Pixar, recently tweeted twenty-two rules on storytelling. A favorite rule is #13: “Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.”
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WordStream has counted no fewer than 21 ways that Google is monetizing mobile.
In 2012, Google had its first $50 billion year. But with its massive investments in mobile, someday it might make that much just on the little plastic and metal devices we carry in our pockets. (Infographic)
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The presence of human cells made the mice’s brains function better.
Scientists discover that human brains cells transplanted into mice’s brains make the mice smarter. These results shed light on how important a certain overlooked class of brain cells are in human brains.
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Salt intake linked to autoimmune diseases.
In developed countries in recent decades the incidence of autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes, has spiked. Researchers describe in three studies that were published in Nature that the molecular pathways that can lead to autoimmune disease and identify one possible culprit that has been right under our noses — and on our tables — the entire time: salt.
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Migrant laborers work late into the evening at a brick kiln in central India.
The lifetime profit on a brickmaking slave in Brazil is $8,700, and $2,000 in India. Sexual slavery brings the slave’s owner $18,000 over the slave’s working life in Thailand, and $49,000 in Los Angeles. These are some chilling statistics on global slavery. (Infographic)
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A remarkable Empire of One business
Rich Burlew created the first The Order of the Stick, a hilarious webcomic that celebrates and satirizes tabletop role-playing games and medieval fantasy, on September 29, 2003. The strip was originally produced to entertain people who came to his website for gaming articles, but it quickly became the most popular feature, leading Burlew to eventually abandon writing articles almost entirely.
The entire comic strip is drawn with simple stick characters, hence the name.
On September 30, 2005, The Order of the Stick began appearing in Dragon, the long-running official D&D magazine, and the strip became profitable enough for him to quit his job as a freelance graphic designer and concentrate on cartooning.
Rich also started self-publishing his comics in book form in 2005, but it became hard for him to keep all of the older books in stock. So in 2012 he decided to do a Kickstarter project with a goal of $57,750. Instead, he raised $1,254,120 from 14,952 backers…
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CDC microbiologist,holds up a plate that demonstrates the modified Hodge test, which is used to identify resistance in bacteria.
In hospitals across America, deadly infections with bacteria that resist even the strongest antibiotics are on the rise. Health officials have warned that here is only a “limited window of opportunity” to halt their spread.
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Can Twitter be used as an informal barometer of public opinion? Surely the constant torrent of often spontaneous, 140-character tweets coming from millions of people should provide a window into what people are really thinking.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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