30 seconds of breathtaking awe at physics – watch a water droplet bounce in ultra-slow-motion. Then, see 7 more everyday things in mesmerizing slow motion.
30 seconds of breathtaking awe at physics – watch a water droplet bounce in ultra-slow-motion. Then, see 7 more everyday things in mesmerizing slow motion.
Summing up novels on Twitter
French newspaper Le Monde has a nice selection of attempts made by various people to sum up novels in a tweet.
Summing up novels on Twitter
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French newspaper Le Monde has a nice selection of attempts made by various people to sum up novels in a tweet.
Apple agrees to pay for the use of Swiss clock design
Apple agrees to pay for the use of Swiss clock design
Click on the link to see how obvious it was.
Apple agrees to pay for the use of Swiss clock design
Click on the link to see how obvious it was.
The story of "the dog ate my homework"
The story of “the dog ate my homework”
In this anecdote, which appeared as early as 1905, a clergyman pulls his clerk aside after a service to ask him whether his sermon seemed long enough. The clerk assures him that it was very nice, “just the right length,” and the priest is relieved. “I am very glad to hear you say that,” he says, “because just before I started to come here my dog got hold of my sermon and ate some of the leaves.” The story was repeated again and again.
Some journalists spend their time doing interesting research, to be honest.
The story of “the dog ate my homework”
In this anecdote, which appeared as early as 1905, a clergyman pulls his clerk aside after a service to ask him whether his sermon seemed long enough. The clerk assures him that it was very nice, “just the right length,” and the priest is relieved. “I am very glad to hear you say that,” he says, “because just before I started to come here my dog got hold of my sermon and ate some of the leaves.” The story was repeated again and again.
Some journalists spend their time doing interesting research, to be honest.
Art.sy helps you discover art online
Enter Art.sy, a start-up whose public version went live on Monday. An extensive free repository of fine-art images and an online art appreciation guide, it is predicated on the idea that audiences comfortable with image-driven Web sites like Tumblr and Pinterest are now primed to spend hours browsing through canvases and sculpture on their monitors and tablets, especially with one-click help.
Just like Pandora or Netflix are useful for music or films/TV shows recommendations, Art.sy aims to automate discovery in the art department.
I still don’t think that algorithms are ready for this kind of business. And art is an incredibly subjective matter. Let’s see how much traction it gets.
Art.sy helps you discover art online
Enter Art.sy, a start-up whose public version went live on Monday. An extensive free repository of fine-art images and an online art appreciation guide, it is predicated on the idea that audiences comfortable with image-driven Web sites like Tumblr and Pinterest are now primed to spend hours browsing through canvases and sculpture on their monitors and tablets, especially with one-click help.
Just like Pandora or Netflix are useful for music or films/TV shows recommendations, Art.sy aims to automate discovery in the art department.
I still don’t think that algorithms are ready for this kind of business. And art is an incredibly subjective matter. Let’s see how much traction it gets.
Texts, a rich editor for plain text
Texts, a rich editor for plain text
Anyone who is serious about writing, wants a decent alternative to TextEdit but not something as abstract or expensive as iA Writer should give Texts a try.
Texts, a rich editor for plain text
Anyone who is serious about writing, wants a decent alternative to TextEdit but not something as abstract or expensive as iA Writer should give Texts a try.
A guy jumps from 39 kilometers up in the stratosphere, freefalls for 4 minutes while his maximum speed was 1137 kmh. Pretty standard day.
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A guy jumps from 39 kilometers up in the stratosphere, freefalls for 4 minutes while his maximum speed was 1137 kmh. Pretty standard day.
The Brief
A daily briefing of technology news worth caring about, edited by Richard Dunlop-Walters
Nice layout and careful selection of stories.
The Brief
A daily briefing of technology news worth caring about, edited by Richard Dunlop-Walters
Nice layout and careful selection of stories.
Australians are building the first quantum computer
Australians are building the first quantum computer
Quantum computing will potentially lead to a new generation of supercomputers that are not intended to replace today’s machines but will instead open new computing vistas, from drug and material design to code breaking, by offering speed to address a new class of problems. “We are used to designing cars and airplanes with computers,” said Andrew Dzurak, a physicist who is director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility and lead researcher on the latest advance. “Imagine if you could start building your molecule or your material on a computer and then completely simulate its behavior.”
A door to the future is opening.
Australians are building the first quantum computer
Quantum computing will potentially lead to a new generation of supercomputers that are not intended to replace today’s machines but will instead open new computing vistas, from drug and material design to code breaking, by offering speed to address a new class of problems. “We are used to designing cars and airplanes with computers,” said Andrew Dzurak, a physicist who is director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility and lead researcher on the latest advance. “Imagine if you could start building your molecule or your material on a computer and then completely simulate its behavior.”
A door to the future is opening.
New York City’s controversial anti-Muslim subway ads get a fighting-free-speech-with-free-speech rebuttal from pro-tolerance group United Methodist Women, who raised $6,000 to match the anti-jihad group’s ad buy and secure media space for ”visual response.”
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New York City’s controversial anti-Muslim subway ads get a fighting-free-speech-with-free-speech rebuttal from pro-tolerance group United Methodist Women, who raised $6,000 to match the anti-jihad group’s ad buy and secure media space for ”visual response.”
