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"It may not be the headphones or the streaming. Does Tim Cook think Jimmy Iovine is the next Steve Jobs?" - × × ×

“Twitter may try to buy its way out of its growth problem by making another move into music. The company is considering a deal to acquire SoundCloud, the music and audio-sharing company, according to people familiar with both companies. Berlin-based SoundCloud is a free service that lets users upload and share audio files around the Web; it likes to describe itself as the “YouTube for audio.” In October 2013, the company announced that it had 250 million users.” - × × ×

NO-GO: Twitter Inc. considered buying German music-streaming service SoundCloud Ltd., but it has backed out of the talks, according to a person familiar with the matter. The short-messaging service chose to let the deadline for exclusivity on talks pass without coming to an agreement because "the numbers didn't add up," the person said, without offering specifics. It is unclear which party initiated the talks. — http://online.wsj.com/news... - × × ×

«— Вы на этой должности почти два года, какие ощущения сегодня, что изменилось? — Пришло понимание того, что нет чёрного или белого, нет ни абсолютно правильного, ни совершенно неправильного. Есть видение населения, есть видение проектировщиков-градостроителей, которые в силу своего профессионального опыта видят перспективу развития не только на два-три года вперед, но на десять-пятнадцать. А есть еще политические и экономические факторы. И когда у нас такая многофакторная сложная система, в которой много стейкхолдеров — то в этой ситуации находить баланс, двигаться вперед и продвигать проекты очень сложно.» - × × ×

“X-37B’s actual functions are still heavily classified. ¶ As you’d imagine, conspiracy theorists are having a field day, and here’s why: Powered by a solar panel that unfurls once in orbit, X-37B can open with small, shuttle-like payload bay in its middle – think of a clamshell opening from underneath. There’s room for more than just a solar panel too. Exactly what items it carries, and why they need to be in space so long, has proved elusive for analysts, the space community, and the media. ¶ To add further intrigue, the plane is classified as a secret project, yet maker Boeing has released pictures and more than two pages of details on the X-37B. That’s not how secrets are usually dealt with. By contrast, the secret Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was not declassified until decades after it had been flown in the Vietnam War.” • #удивительные_факты - × × ×

"Dan Rubin, editor-at-large of the Photographic Journal and an early Instagram adopter, takes a tour of London to test some of the best smartphone photography apps. By shooting a variety of people and places, Dan shows how using some specially selected apps throughout your photography workflow can dramatically improve the shots you capture – and offers some cool tips and tricks of what you can do with those shots afterwards" - × × ×

http://www.theguardian.com/technol... — 10 best photography apps — Smartphones have changed photography for ever and there are a wealth of apps to edit and adjust all aspects of light in an image | Dan Rubin - × × ×

http://skrwt.com/ — !!!!111 - × × ×

«Лучше поздно, чем никого». #ящик_кейсов - × × ×

ну, скоро по IR сделают - кот от котов

"Google's self-driving cars can tour you around the streets of Mountain View, California.  I know this. I rode in one this week. I saw the car's human operator take his hands from the wheel and the computer assume control. "Autodriving," said a woman's voice, and just like that, the car was operating autonomously, changing lanes, obeying traffic lights, monitoring cyclists and pedestrians, making lefts. Even the way the car accelerated out of turns felt right." • #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

“Here, we see another Google approach. Dolgov's team uses machine learning algorithms to create models of other people on the road. Every single mile of driving is logged, and that data fed into computers that classify how different types of objects act in all these different situations. While some driver behavior could be hardcoded in ("When the lights turn green, cars go"), they don't exclusively program that logic, but learn it from actual driver behavior. ¶ In the way that we know that a car pulling up behind a stopped garbage truck is probably going to change lanes to get around it, having been built with 700,000 miles of driving data has helped the Google algorithm to understand that the car is likely to do such a thing. ¶ Most driving situations are not hard to comprehend, but what about the tough ones or the unexpected ones? In Google's current process, a human driver would take control, and (so far) safely guide the car. But fascinatingly, in the circumstances when a human driver has to take over, what the Google car would have done is also recorded, so that engineers can test what would have happened in extreme circumstances without endangering the public.” - × × ×

“There is, at least in an analogical sense, a connection between how the Google cars work and how our own brains do. We think about the way we see as accepting sensory input and acting accordingly. Really, our brains are making predictions all the time, which guide our perception. The actual sensory input—the light falling on retinal cells—is secondary to the prior experience that we've built into our brains through years of experience being in the world. ¶ That Google's self-driving cars are using these principles is not surprising. That they are having so much success doing so is.” - × × ×

The definitive listing of Static Site Generators — all 243 of them - × × ×

No filters, only sorting :( - 9000

Too static! - социальный груффало

"As if it weren’t enough that our devices, our kids, and our schedules keep us up, certain white-collar sectors seem to demand this type of sleepless hyper-performance. “Our consumption-oriented economy profits more when people are awake longer,” Charles Czeisler, head of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, told the Boston Globe. ¶ An unusually pithy Donald Trump might have summed up the rich man’s sleep conundrum best: “How does somebody that's sleeping 12 and 14 hours a day compete with someone that's sleeping three or four?" ¶ So it’s perhaps no surprise to learn that the idea of "manly wakefulness," as Penn State labor history professor Alan Derickson describes it, also has its roots in the life of a famous entrepreneur." - × × ×

... How does he who sleeps 8 hours compete? By having superior cognitive functions, of course. - 9000

http://blog.laurenoneilldesign.com/2012... — “So, that's not exactly a 'holding pattern' you say... You're right, but I love the idea of circling above an airport waiting to land. I feel like that mirrors my process of searching for + cropping the right shot. Plus, I love the fact that a lot of the taxiway markings are patterned across an airport's tarmac.” • #рубрика_прекрасное ∙ #now_this_is_awesome - × × ×

Судя по сигналящим и нервным на дороге и в метро, сегодня всех нужно только обнимать и гладить. - × × ×

ясно, пошёл в метро всех обнимать - ǥrǝeƨhⱥ

“Primo is a new board game that uses arithmetic to open a beautiful world of possibility. Players race to be the first to get to the center of the board while avoiding getting knocked back to the start by other players. Highlighting the power of the prime numbers, Primo is mathematical, deep, creative, and fun.” - × × ×

“We are Math For Love, a Seattle-based math education enterprise that seeks to connect real people with real mathematics. We run classes for kids, professional development for teachers, workshops for parents, support for schools, and festivals for all, with a goal of providing meaningful, rich, and beautiful mathematical experiences.” - × × ×

Нельзя не вспомнить в такие моменты про Марию Дружкову. - × × ×

“Each of these JPEGs is an original artwork by Charles Truett. Each time you save one of them to your desktop you create a new original Truett, yours to keep, free of charge. Enjoy!” • #безжалостный_постмодернизм - × × ×

"внутри этого ящика такой барашек, как ты хотел" (цитпопам) + ностальгия по 3D-играм начала 90-х, с текстурами низкого разрешения и без интерполяции. - 9000

“We obtain our information from three sources: Public databases, primary sources (manufacturer websites) and expert sources. Our team of researchers reviews all third party edits before they are approved.” - × × ×

Про этот сайт: давно за ними слежу, отличная идея, красивое исполнение, но во многих разделах такая пурга с правдивостью данных, что просто — тушите свет. Ощущение, что верификацией информации занимались в момент добавления пару лет назад, и с тех пор — руки не дошли перепроверить, и прикрутить feedback button, чтобы хотя бы посетители подсказывали какая уже устарела, и пахнет разложившимся трупиком. - earlyadopter

Ну, классический «замах на рубль».) - × × ×

Айфоновая камера уделывает почти всех вообще. Выживают только узкозаточенные суперштуки: хипстаматик (уберфильтры), камера+ (таймер и «стабилизатор»), и ещё одна камераS (live-фильтры на фото и видео и интервальный таймер). Все остальные кейсы сожрала дефолтная камера, которая умеет круто делать HDR и живёт в контрольном центре на расстоянии свайп-и-тапа. - × × ×

О, наконец-то селфи! - flamebait generator

Да, камера в 5S уделала даже мой Ricoh, достаю его только когда место в телефоне заканчивается, а потом всё равно засылаю себе картинки в почту и публикую в инстаграм (и в ужасе смотрю на эти извращения). - rogneda

Когда дойдут, наконец, руки до тоталитарной секты, нужно будет использовать лучшие методы, проверенные столетиями. - × × ×

Вчера на пару минут поймал хорошее ощущение «отпустило». Но на пару минут. - × × ×

Нормально, две минуты, I did it again. Но по дождю как-то не очень шагать, будем ждать следующего.) Или, впрочем... (Смотрит на карту) Пожалуй, прогуляемся. - × × ×