[nonostantement #194] - instagram vs girls / robotic arm / hikvision
Now with MORE ornithopters!
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Hello everyone from Barcelona, my name is Joele, I am an online communication consultant and I spend most of my time working in front of this monitor right here. I happen to find interesting things and every Sunday I share them with my friends with this very email you are reading right now.
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As the soundtrack the video that made me think "wow in my life I want to do something creative with computers!": Prince - Sign O 'The Time
#PEOPLE
The Spiralist
Why do helical seashells resemble spiralling galaxies and the human heart? Kevin Dann leads us into the gyre of James Bell Pettigrew’s Design in Nature (1908), a provocative and forgotten exploration of the world’s archetypal whorl.Read Something Great
”Timeless articles from the belly of the internet. Manually curated. Served 5 at a time.”
#ART
#SOCIALMEDIA
Does Instagram Harm Girls? No One Actually Knows.
”Parents who believe that they can treat a teenager’s depression simply by restricting her Instagram use may end up ignoring the true causes of her suffering.”
#MUSIC
Conform Records Chronicles the Neapolitan Techno Sound
”He continued to work quietly, however, producing music for himself, an activity which he likens now to therapy. ‘Some people paint, I like to make music.’”
#TECH
[Video] - Artificial Muscles Robotic Arm Full Range of Motion + Static Strength Test (V11)
”At this moment our robotic arm is operated only by a half of artificial muscles when compared to a human body.”
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#THEDARKSIDE
Facebook Grew Marketplace to 1 Billion Users. Now Scammers Are Using It to Target People Around the World.
ProPublica identified thousands of Marketplace listings and profiles that broke the company’s rules, revealing how Facebook failed to safeguard users.China Is Watching You
”Even if you have never set foot in China, Hikvision’s cameras have likely seen you. By 2017, Hikvision had captured 12 percent of the North American market. […] Police departments used them to monitor streets in Memphis, Tennessee, and in Lawrence, Massachusetts. London and more than half of Britain’s 20 next-largest cities have deployed them.”Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, and remember everything you do
AI tools that could one day appear in Facebook’s AR glasses
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