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Maria Gurova

Tom Hanks' Typewriter App Shoots To The Top Of The App Store | TechCrunch - 0 views

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Technology entertainment social back to the roots CIS

shared by Maria Gurova on 19 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Launched last week, Hanx Writer turns your iPad into an old-fashioned typewriter, offering a pseudo-analog typing experience. The bangs of key presses, hard returns and the chimes that sound when you reach the end of a new line now sit alongside modern conveniences 
  • Maria Gurova on 19 Aug 14
     
    Another way to use tech to revive the old-fashioned habits. Will the next gen of tech addicted individuals have those needs, or it's just us holding to the past? 
Maria Gurova

«Сегодня домашние 3D-принтеры печатают какую-то хрень» - Технологии - Афиша-В... - 0 views

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Technology entertainment 3D Printer CIS 3D printing service KE

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  • Maria Gurova on 25 Aug 14
     
    Russian on-line service that can print your design on 3D or create the model on demand and print it. Designers are offered a platform to sell their designs to customers 
evgeny lavrov

New Gadget From Amazon Makes Grocery Shopping Dangerously Easy | Gadget Lab | WIRED - 2 views

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Technology connected shopping automation

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    "GADGET LAB amazon amazon dash amazon fresh FOLLOW WIRED Twitter Facebook RSS New Gadget From Amazon Makes Grocery Shopping Dangerously Easy"
Maria Gurova

ZelnickMedia to Acquire Video Content-Business, CEO Says - Bloomberg - 0 views

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'video content' 'short-form ADD entertainment storytelling KE CIS

shared by Maria Gurova on 15 May 14 - No Cached
  • We can tell a story in 3 minutes. We can tell a story in 6 minutes. But that doesn’t rule out longer-form content -- Netflix is living proof of that
Maria Gurova

Google Glass Gets Foursquare, TripIt and OpenTable Apps - 0 views

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google glass Technology social media travel wearable foursquare

shared by Maria Gurova on 15 May 14 - No Cached
  • Google Glass just got a whole lot more useful for travel. The connected headset now has official apps for Foursquare, TripIt and OpenTable.
  • TripIt inserts its trip updates and information in the Google Now cards that already appear on Glass. Your flight status, departure time and gate will all appear on a single card
  • Open Table has its own command: "Okay Glass, make a reservation...." Once you speak those words, a selection of nearby restaurants will appear, ready for you to scroll through
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  • The current version of Google's Field Trip sends you notifications about surrounding points of interest, but the upgrade, released in April, lets you specifically ask what's nearby.
  • Word Lens completes the travel package. The app has been on Glass since last November, but its augmented-reality translation abilities are arguably perfectly suited for smart glasses. With Glass, all you need to do is look at a sign or menu, aim Glass' camera so the text you need translated is in an onscreen rectangle, and the words will change — from, say, Italian to English — before your eyes
Maria Gurova

What It Really Feels Like to Ride in a Self-Driving Car | TIME.com - 0 views

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Technology Google self-driving car urbanization

shared by Maria Gurova on 15 May 14 - No Cached
  • Google’s project to change transportation by designing cars which can drive themselves is getting less secretive
  • a trip which will be far less tedious when I can do it while reading, answering email or otherwise being productive.
  • Sergey Brin has talked about self-driving cars being a reality for “everyday people” within five years–and he said that a year and a half ago, which would suggest he was thinking about 2017
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  • From a technical standpoint, the car uses lasers, radar and cameras to construct a 3D image of the world around it, and uses that to make driving decisions.
  • The driver has a small heads-up display which summarizes what the car’s vision system sees, with color-coded indicators for other vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and other things it needs to contend with.
  • The Google cars drive safely in part because they’re programmed to be relentlessly cautious: Unlike many a human driver, they won’t push their luck.
Maria Gurova

4 | These Sideways Skyscrapers Reimagine A City That's About Livability, Not Height Rec... - 0 views

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urbanization city community public spaces city planning ecology green city vertical farming environment social

shared by Maria Gurova on 15 May 14 - No Cached
  • what if there was a kinder kind of high-rise?
  • PinkCloud.dk entered renderings that showed horizontal neighborhoods flipped on their sides
  • FLIP/CITY, green space would connect workplaces, shops, and residences for people of various incomes on a vertical scale.
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  • . The architects argued that flipping a landscape vertically, so that public space connects homes, schools, and workplaces within one building, would create more mixed use communities than high-rises with hundreds of rooms simply stacked on top of one another.
  • developers are rarely enthused about building diverse communities--often, it's more profitable for them to build new, luxury towers that act like gated communities for the rich. A project like FLIP/CITY would likely require political will, too, and zoning laws would have to adapt to the new mixed-use shapes and needs created by them.
  • Maria Gurova on 15 May 14
     
    another idea for a eco conscious city planning
Maria Gurova

2 | Samsung Introduces A Wearable Health Tracker That Geeks and Insurance Companies Wil... - 0 views

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wearable health tracker Technology samsung big data

shared by Maria Gurova on 29 May 14 - No Cached
  • The popularity of wearable health trackers, such as Fitbit, Jawbone UP, and Nike FuelBand, have created a problem
  • Hardly anyone has developed algorithms that derive actionable insights from the data that your body generates, and the dashboards are separate
  • Samsung is not planning to release a wearable health monitor to consumers, but expects other developers to build on the reference design shown today.
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  • Though Samsung will still compete on a consumer level, the data on its platform could ramp up its business serving health care professionals.
  • In a study conducted with the University of Chicago involving 15 patients who had experienced heart failure, sensors and predictive analysis were able to detect early signs of heart problems
  • "big data to small data, and small data to insights that people can understand--that are actionable,"
  • Maria Gurova on 29 May 14
     
    Samsung is trying to find a solution on how to interpret the big data collected from the health tracking wearable devices 
Maria Gurova

The Future of Kids TV: A MIPTV Report | Animation World Network - 4 views

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  • Maria Gurova on 28 Aug 14
     
    3.  New Characters for kids Talking Friends" - pet apps.  Repeats your voice "squeaky version"  1.5 billion views.  Talking Tom Cats" - Talking Tom stars in Disney's newest show, 3 min. short each week. Clumsy Ninja" - progressive game where Ninja gets less clumsy as he goes along.  Kids spend hours and hours …
Maria Gurova

Russia and the Menace of Unreality - The Atlantic - 0 views

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Political social CIS propaganda Fortress manipulation one source of information media free press

shared by Maria Gurova on 04 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations that then translate into political action.
  • there is one great difference between Soviet propaganda and the latest Russian variety. For the Soviets, the idea of truth was important—even when they were lying.
  • today’s Russia, by contrast, the idea of truth is irrelevant. On Russian ‘news’ broadcasts, the borders between fact and fiction have become utterly blurred.
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  • “The public likes how our main TV channels present material, the tone of our programs,” he said. “The share of viewers for news programs on Russian TV has doubled over the last two months.”
  • The point of this new propaganda is not to persuade anyone, but to keep the viewer hooked and distracted—to disrupt Western narratives rather than provide a counternarrative.
  • Maria Gurova on 04 Nov 14
     
    the tone is a bit hysterical, but this is how the world sees us from the outside and also a good inspiration for a Fortress scenario 
Maria Gurova

ВЕДОМОСТИ - РПЦ получит из бюджета около 2 млрд рублей на создание духовно-пр... - 1 views

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Political CIS Social propaganda Protectionism Fortress religion state funding

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  • федеральной целевой программе «Укрепление единства российской нации».
  • В мае первые 23 организации такого типа получили первые 1,1 млрд руб.
  • в 2015 г. в рамках ФЦП еще 958 млн руб. будут выделены на создание духовно-просветительских центров. Весь бюджет ФЦП на 2015 г. составляет 1,4 млрд руб.
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  • Бюджет федеральной целевой программы был увеличен на 358 млн руб. после визита на Валаам президента Владимира Путина в апреле 2014 г.
Maria Gurova

ВЕДОМОСТИ - Максим Трудолюбов: Государство беззащитных - 0 views

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CIS Social Political security human security legislation propaganda Protectionism Fortress insecurity Russian mentality human rights short-term planning

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  • Дело в гуманизации безопасности. И в воплощении в политике идеи, что мир состоит прежде всего из людей, а не из государств.
  • Российское государство ни в какой из своих инкарнаций не было чемпионом защиты индивидуальной безопасности и формирования среды.
  • Мы уже недалеки от признания, что индивидуальная и национальная безопасность исключают друг друга.
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  • Но традиции незащищенности граждан есть в прошлом каждой страны. Сила не в том, чтобы за такой опыт держаться, а в том, чтобы его преодолевать.
  • что стабильных правил игры ждать не приходится: то, что можно сегодня, станет запретным завтра. Ощущение опасности, которое внушают представители власти, — не стихийные эмоции, а вполне намеренная технология управления населением.
  • Нежелание заниматься развитием инструментов для вложения денег, изъятие накопительной части пенсии и нынешнее обесценение рубля — все это подтверждение того, что государство в лучшем случае не справилось с обеспечением безопасности сбережений и инвестиций граждан.
  • Переключение внимания общества на внешних врагов — почти неизбежное следствие провала создания внутри России достойной среды человеческих отношений.
  • Содержание большинства телепрограмм российского ТВ — это не страх перед внешними врагами, а концентрированный страх общества и власти друг перед другом.
  • Готовность к дурному исходу, к человеческим и экономическим утратам — не мистика и не фантазия. Это и не просто национальное свойство, замечаемое иностранцами и прочитываемое даже в российских лицах, а выражение незащищенности. То, что за тобой могут прийти; то, что могут отнять все, что ты делал и берег, — не болезнь, а правда жизни.
  • Maria Gurova on 03 Dec 14
     
    this is a very good piece on why Russians are so "fortress thinking" and are incapable of planning for the long term 
Maria Gurova

Nickelodeon hopes SpongeBob SquarePants will get kids coding | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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Technology KE CIS Play kids learning gamification education coding bottom-up storytelling DIY

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  • Nickelodeon UK’s launch of a website called Code-It that aims to teach programming skills to 6-12 year-olds.
  • While they will earn badges for their progress through the site’s set lessons, children will also be able to write their own programs animating the characters, and share them with their peers.
  • In May 2014, producer Aardman Animations launched Shaun’s Game Academy - a website challenging children to create and share their own games
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  • the BBC followed with The Doctor and the Dalek, a web game based on Doctor Who that featured a series of programming challenges
Maria Gurova

Microsoft HoloLens: Real life holograms unveiled as part of Windows 10 - News - Gadgets... - 0 views

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microsoft Technology entertainment Play learning virtual reality gadgets hologram

shared by Maria Gurova on 22 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Microsoft unveiled a new hologram platform today as part of its new operating system
  • The holographic software is built into Windows 10 already, the company said. Though Microsoft is working on its own hardware, the platform will also work for other virtual reality software like Oculus Rift and Google Glass
  • Microsoft executive built a virtual flying drone, which the company then showed could be 3D printed. Alex Kipman, who helped lead the project, called it “print preview for 3D printing”.
  • Maria Gurova on 22 Jan 15
     
    Microsoft tackles the field of VR headsets 
Maria Gurova

The Airbnb vs. New York hearing: Lots of yelling, no decisions - 0 views

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Political entrepreneurship shared economy Economy airbnb travel

shared by Maria Gurova on 22 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • The City Council's Housing and Buildings Committee heard testimony Tuesday from residents, housing advocates, city officials and companies about the effects of the growing industry on the city.
  • In November 2014, about 15,300 New York City listings were entire homes or apartments representing about 59% of the available listings on the site that month, according to Slee. There were also 9,704 listings for private rooms, and 753 listings for shared rooms. The analysis also showed that 2,764 users were renting out two or more units, which opponents have cited as evidence the service is helping illegal hotels. More than 200 users were renting out five units or more
  • Airbnb is calling for "smart regulation," which it has had success with in cities including Portland, Oregon; San Jose and San Francisco, California; Amsterdam; and Paris. Airbnb collects lodging tax directly from hosts in those cities, and several local governments have passed laws that allow short-term rentals in some form.
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  • Both sides agreed on seemingly only one thing: That a discussion and regulation of short-term rentals in New York City is overdue.
Maria Gurova

The first around-the-world flight in a solar airplane will launch this March | The Verge - 0 views

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Technology science sustainable energy environment solar energy air travel Solar Impulse

shared by Maria Gurova on 22 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • In around two months, the team behind the solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 will attempt the first ever around-the-world flight powered only by sunlight.
  • After taking off in Abu Dhabi, the Solar Impulse 2 will make stops in Oman, India, Myanmar, China, the US, and Southern Europe or North Africa before landing back in Abu Dhabi sometime in August.
  • The Solar Impulse 2's across-the-world flight should clock 500 hours total flight time and around 21,748 miles
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