Pyrobits - reference guide

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A really good roadmap of free online courses to learn math. Check it our on: http://www.mathishtoenglish.com/the-best-online-math-courses

Great post on reasons why millennials behave smarter :) They no longer value the traditional workplace rules. They believe in life, not work-life balance. They don´t want to be just another cog in the wheel. They value intangible work benefits more. They are used to being flexible and doing things on the go. They are autonomous. They want transparency. They want to learn from experience. See more at: http://tinyurl.com/nsyg2wo

Also interesting: Could you tell if a phone has been stolen by a change in the walking pattern of the person carrying it? An Android app developed by Marios Savvides and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, uses data from the accelerometer and gyroscope that come as standard on modern smartphones to record the movements that a phone makes as its owner walks. In a study to be presented this week at the BTAS biometrics conference in Washington DC, Savvides shows the app can identify a particular gait with over 95 per cent accuracy. The technology could one day be used to shut a device down if it registers a gait that does not match that of its owner http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~juefeix/btas_2012_felix.pdf

  Improvements in gait analysis mean your characteristic way of walking could soon be used to identify you – wherever you are. “Imagine a bank robber who has covered his face but can be identified by the way he walks out of the bank” Ref: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528835.600-cameras-know-you-by-your-walk/ http://www.techtudo.com.br/noticias/noticia/2012/09/cameras-reconhecem-pessoas-pelo-modo-de-andar.html

"(...)  it’s clear that in the future, tech companies—not publishers—will be the chief distributors of the news we consume." <wired> With AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), a new opensorce instant publishing product google will revolutionize not only mobile web but the web itself and the way we navigate.  It may be a new media revolution providing instant access to the content that matters in a whole new level. "This is about making sure the World Wide Web is not the World Wide Wait.” (Richard Gringrass) Refs: https://www.ampproject.org http://www.wired.com/2015/10/googles-got-plan-make-mobile-web-less-slow/

TRON Clock V2 « The Algorithmist : "I wanted to contrast different implementations of the same concept in the TRON clock, so welcome to V2. My intent in the first version was to always display an analog-style clock with a circular theme and varying background quadrant graphics for the minutes. The former was considered part of the component and the latter was the skin. That’s a pretty narrow view of a skin. What if someone wanted to replace the circular theme with something triangular or square or even a digital display - Sent using Google Toolbar"

Mundo quântico "comunica-se" com o mundo macro pela primeira vez : "Cientistas austríacos estabeleceram uma interação entre luz e um ressonador micromecânico que é forte o bastante para transferir efeitos quânticos para o mundo macroscópico. Este é um passo importante para novos experimentos ligados à computação quântica e para a verificação de até que ponto as leis da mecânica quântica aplicam-se ao mundo dos objetos em escala humana."

Lançada primeira tecnologia de realidade virtual integral : "Pesquisadores ingleses apresentaram um novo sistema de realidade virtual que permite que o usuário, além de ver, ouvir e tocar os objetos, também sinta os sabores e cheiros associados com a cena virtual na qual ele está imerso."

Emulador universal salva informação digital para futuras gerações : "Emulador universal Pensando nisto, um grupo de pesquisadores europeus começou um projeto mais ambicioso: eles estão construindo um emulador universal, um programa capaz de reconhecer e rodar todos os tipos de arquivos de computador já gerados até hoje, O emulador universal reconhecerá os dados antigos nos computadores atuais e poderá ser facilmente atualizável para rodar nas novas arquiteturas de informática que ainda serão desenvolvidas no futuro. O projeto foi batizado de Keep, a palavra em inglês para manter. O termo é também um acrônimo para Keeping Emulation Environments Portable - mantendo os ambientes de emulação portáveis."

Óculos universais usam lente líquida que dispensa exames : "Óculos universais Mas o Dr. Joshua Silver, da Universidade de Oxford, na Inglaterra, criou uma solução mais elegante e potencialmente muito mais barata. Ele inventou uma espécie de óculos universal, que pode ser adaptado para qualquer grau depois de comprado na loja. Mais do que isso, se o grau de correção da visão se alterar no próximo exame - ou quando o usuário perceber uma piora na visão, mesmo sem um exame - o paciente pode simplesmente ajustar os óculos universais para o novo grau."

A Brief History of Mobile Games: 2002 - Wake up and smell the coffee, feature, A Brief History of Mobile Games, PocketGamer.biz : "Up to this point the mobile games industry had been nascent. Companies had raised cash, the basic technological building blocks were in place, and a handful of decent games had been released, but something was still missing..."

Criada memória do computador HAL 9000 : "'É um novo marco no desenvolvimento de sistemas eletrônicos transparentes. Integrando as memórias TRRAM com outros componentes eletrônicos transparentes, nós poderemos criar sistemas eletrônicos incorporados virtualmente invisíveis,' diz o pesquisador Jung Won Seo."

Scaleform Corporation : "Scaleform GFx is a light-weight high-performance rich media user interface (UI) and vector graphics engine, designed specifically for Console and PC game developers. GFx combines the scalability and development ease of proven visual authoring tools, such as the Adobe Flash® Studio, with the latest hardware graphics acceleration that cutting-edge game developers demand. Using Scaleform GFx, companies can change from a programmer-centric static UI development environment to an artist-driven dynamic UI and animated texture production pipeline!"

Gamasutra - Gamasutra's Best Of 2008: Top 5 PC Games : "1. Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios) Bethesda's Fallout 3 not only outshone the studio's previous game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, in just about every way, it accomplished the impressive task of satisfying most non-extremist-level fans of Black Isle's venerable Fallout series. Creating a vast world that is a convincing representation of a dismal, post-nuclear wasteland while also being consistently compelling is no mean feat, but here it is."

OpenVG 1.1 Specification Publicly Released - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums : "The Khronos™ Group announced today that it has ratified and publicly released the OpenVG™ 1.1 specification, a new version of the royalty-free, open standard for low-level 2D vector graphics acceleration. OpenVG 1.1 adds a Glyph API for hardware accelerated text rendering, full acceleration support for Adobe® Flash® and Flash Lite 3 technologies and multi-sampled anti-aliasing. The new OpenVG specification is accompanied by an open source sample implementation and a full suite of conformance tests implemented by the Khronos Group. OpenVG has been developed by Khronos members including Adobe, AMD, ARM, Broadcom, Ericsson, Huone, Imagination Technologies, Monotype Imaging, NDS, Nokia, NVIDIA, Symbian, TAKUMI and Texas Instruments. The OpenVG API specification and more details about the sample implementation and conformance tests are available at http://www.khronos.org/openvg/ "

Videogames For Tough Times - Forbes.com : "Videogames For Tough Times Mary Jane Irwin, 12.12.08, 04:00 PM EST Fortune dwindling? 'Fable II' can rebuild your ego, if not your wealth. image In Pictures: Forbes.com's 15 Favorite Games Of 2008 The economy is awful. Companies are bankrupt. Stocks are tanking. Savings are dwindling. And employers are laying off in droves. Instead of hitting the bottle to soothe your jangled nerves, try playing a videogame. No, they're not the magic, recession-proof white stallion we've been led to believe, but games are excellent means of escapism. Sit down with one of 2008's best games for 10, 20 or 40 hours and you'll barely remember that your checking account balance isn't as high as it used to be.

India media news marketing India advertising Indian brands tv media newspapers : "Games2Win has announced the launch of Gamecurry, a global search engine for Flash games. Over 400 million consumers (almost one out of two) on the World Wide Web play online Flash games as per comScore data (September 2008). Within a month, Gamecurry.com will showcase global search trends live on the site."

Indie game designer earns raves for 'Braid' - Citizen Gamer- msnbc.com : "One of the highest-rated Xbox 360 games of all times isn't some shooting game from some fancy-pants company that makes games by dipping programming code in giant vats filled with hundred dollar bills. And it’s not some action game that tap dances across your TV screen showing off its high-def graphics like some supermodel showing off her expensive new dress."