Beautiful Street Photography
September 20, 2016 15:19
Marcin Baran is a Polish photographer who places the human in the center of his pictures. He loves photograph them, in colors or in black and white, in the night or in rainy weather.
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Start up: Google buys more AI, iTunes’s overload, how SoftRAM fooled the world, Google Maps v Uber, and more
September 20, 2016 15:16
What makes a good chatbot? Photo by reynermedia on Flickr.
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Prices of low-end smartphone panels hit new historical highs in september as demand outpaces supply • TrendForce
Julian Lee is an analyst at research company Trendforce:
»strong demand is pushing up prices of LCD panels for smartphone displays of the lower resolution specs. With demand for high-end device models falling short of expectations, smartphone brands are now relying on low-end devices with bargain-priced panels to boost their product shipments. However, limited supply and increasing demand have caused prices of 4-inch WVGA and 4.5-inch FWVGA panels to reach new highs in September, with monthly increases…
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QUARTA REVOLUÇÃO INDUSTRIAL
September 20, 2016 15:15
Impressionante essas previsões. Ficção científica ? Sei não…Confiram !
A 4A. REVOLUÇÃO INDUSTRIAL JÁ ESTÁ ACONTECENDO
Em 1998, a Kodak tinha 170.000 funcionários e era responsável por 85% de todo o papel fotográfico vendido no mundo. No curso de poucos anos, o modelo de negócios dela desapareceu e eles abriram falência. O que ocorreu com a Kodak vai acontecer com um sem número de indústrias nos próximos dez anos – e a maioria das pessoas não enxerga que isso já está chegando.
Você podia imaginar em 1998 que apenas três anos mais tarde nunca mais iria registrar fotos em filme de papel? No entanto, as câmeras digitais foram inventadas em 1975. As primeiras só tinham 10.000 pixels, mas seguiram a Lei de Moore. Assim como acontece com todas as tecnologias exponenciais, elas foram decepcionantes durante um longo tempo, até se tornarem imensamente superiores e dominantes em poucos anos. O mesmo…
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Blind like us … Two by Charles Hamilton Sorely
September 20, 2016 15:13
Charles Hamilton Sorely (1895 – 1915)
A version of this post that I put together several years ago and published elsewhere keeps coming up in the stats for that site, a few people each week popping by to read it … and so I read the poems again myself. Seems we have to learn the same lessons over and over. What Sorely writes still applies …
SUCH, SUCH IS DEATH (1915)
Such, such is Death: no triumph: no defeat:
Only an empty pail, a slate rubbed clean,
A merciful putting away of what has been.
And this we know: Death is not Life, effete,
Life crushed, the broken pail. We who have seen
So marvellous things know well the end not yet.
Victor and vanquished are a-one in death:
Coward and brave: friend, foe. Ghosts do not say,
“Come, what was your record when you drew breath?”
But a big blot has hid…
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Unlearn
September 20, 2016 15:12
Treading upon each others’ destinies
Where have we reached
Where have we lost that language
In this translation of each other
In this union
We went on to learn ourselves
Trying to find meanings
About strings that held us together
What have we learnt,
So consumed in our meanings
That we looked over our identities
The tongues locked close, too tight
For sensing flavours glistening
On our lips, so diverse.
In this long drive of making words
The walks of innuendos
Are left somewhere unfelt.
Where have we come
What journey remains uncharted
In the seas of our eyes
Two souls one body
One body no souls.
So, I distance me from myself
Trying to unlearn,
Uncurl from this growth upon me
I stand away from myself, and you
Somewhere in the middle
Of these two bodies of mine.
Where will I go
What will I run towards
For me…
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