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14 Uses Of Hashtags That Will Make You Cringe

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Author: Randy Miller

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This yearbook hash-splosion:

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Using them on wide-ruled notebook paper:

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This t-shirt:

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Google uses computer vision and machine learning to index your photos

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Author: Christen Arquette

Tags are so 2008. Google doesn’t want you to waste time tagging your photos, except for the people in them. The web giant wants to be able to recognize more abstract concepts like “sunset” or “beach” automatically and attach that metadata without further input. In yet another post-I/O update, Google+ photos now uses computer vision and machine learning to identify objects and settings in your uploaded snapshots. You can simply search for “my photos of trees” or “Tim’s photos of bikes” and get surprisingly accurate results, with nary a manually added tag in sight. You can perform the searches in Google+, obviously, but you can also execute your query from the standard Google search page. It’s pretty neat, but sadly Mountain View seems to have forgotten what cats look like.

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Inventor of the GIF uses awards ceremony to remind us how it’s pronounced

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Author: JohnnyBells

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Invented in 1987, the GIF (or Graphics Interchange Format) definitely isn’t showing its age. Popular on social networks, community websites, and making appearances in acquisition announcements, the GIF has evolved from the spinning email animations of yesteryear into short and seamless pieces of online media. It was named word of the year in 2012, and yesterday, its creator — Steve Wilhite — accepted a lifetime achievement award at The Webby Awards.

Anti-abuse campaign uses lenticular printing to show different ad to adults, children

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Author: Heather Brown

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A new awareness campaign meant to stop child abuse (and help victims find support) is delivering its message in a unique way. The ANAR Foundation has turned to lenticular printing to create outdoor ads that appear differently to adults and children. Adults walking past the display will see an awareness message: “sometimes, child abuse is only visible to the child suffering it.” When viewed from the average height of a 10-year-old child, however, the poster is totally different. It depicts a bruised victim of abuse with a message including ANAR’s hotline number where kids can reach out for counseling. The benefits of the lenticular approach are two-fold; it allows the nonprofit to effectively deliver two messages to the public using a…

Unimo wheelchair uses tank treads to scale stairs, smoothly traverse rough terrain

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A Japanese tech firm is attempting to improve wheelchairs by changing how they travel and how well they can do it. Nano-Optonics Energy’s newly released Unimo electrically controlled chair uses thin, tank-like treads to traverse the ground, which the company claims allows it to travel smoothly over difficult terrain such as gravel and sand that traditional models can’t easily handle. The chair can also climb up and down 6-inch stairs, nearly twice as high as what the manufacturer says most wheelchairs are capable of, and it can approach speeds of 4 mph.

However, the Unimo won’t be hitting the road just yet: though the device is capable of traveling over 12 miles on a single charge, the company sees the device first heading into medical…

Amazing crowdsourced music video uses thousands of mouse cursors as cast members

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Author: Margo Tipton

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If there were any sticking around doubt that the songs video has found a new house away from the television display, below’s a clip that MTV couldn’t play even if it wished to. For Light Light’s new video for “Kilo,” the Netherlands-based band enlisted Roel Wouters to create an browser-based experience that tracks your cursor motions and later on integrates them into the video itself for future playback. As instructed by messages at the top of the display, hundreds of cursors form patterns by sticking within standards, obscure band members’ faces by serving as a collective mask, and develop an opponent for a boxer on the other side of the display. Play the video for yourself at www.donottouch.org.

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Microsoft’s MixShape uses big data and clever visuals to craft the perfect Spotify playlist

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Making a good mix for a party or workout is serious, time-consuming work, so why not throw some data analysis and computing power at the problem? MixShape takes Spotify’s vast music library and couples it with some heavy data analysis from The Echo Nest to give you a graphical representation of the high-energy peaks and down-tempo valleys of a given playlist. Once you have a base to work from (either your own Spotify playlist or one that’s automatically created for you), you can tweak the “flow” and duration of the mix, and Mixshape will automatically add, subtract, and rearrange songs to give you what it thinks you want to hear. The project is sponsored by Microsoft, which created a custom touch interface for the project in IE10,…

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Nokia accuses Google of ‘forcing’ VP8 video codec on the world, uses patent system to resist it

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Author: Alexander McQueen

Simply when Google thought everything was going swell with its open source VP8 video criterion for the web, up pops one last hurdle. And it’s a huge one: Nokia has suddenly decided to use the patent system to try to avoid VP8 from being taken on as a cost-free (or at least free-er) alternative to the license-laden H. 264. Why hads it do such a thing? Because, according to a statement offered to FOSS Patents, the Finnish manufacturer believes VP8 isn’t really truly open. It explains the codec as a “proprietary innovation” that offers “no benefits” over H. 264 which Google is “attempting to force” on others as part of its WebM task. What’s more, Nokia claims VP8 infringes on its own intellectual home and says it isn’t prepared to certify any patents that may be needed to let VP8 flourish. Oh dear. This trouble could now need more money thrown at it.

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InSight app uses Google Glass to identify people by their clothes

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Google’s Task Glass is fertile premises for picturing a future where everything could be caught and examined as quickly as it’s seen, and personal privacy concerns have centered around things like facial awareness. But exactly what if Glass could acknowledge your friends by their clothing? InSight, established by USC analyst Srihari Nelakuditi with support from Google, could produce short-term “aesthetic fingerprints” based on the color and pattern of an individual’s clothing. After snapping a series of photos and matching them to a name, its “spatiogram” can work in circumstances that wouldn’t be feasible with facial acknowledgment: finding people who are away or have turned their backs, for example.

Certainly, the system only works till someone changes clothing …

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Adafruit’s new Internet of Things Printer goes wireless, uses Raspberry Pi (video)

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Author: Buck Howard

Adafruit’s just outed a new Internet of Things Printer kit that’s traded in its ethernet connection for WiFi. Instead of using an Arduino Uno like its wired sibling, the new DIY hardware is built with a Raspberry Pi Model B running Raspbian Linux. Programmed in Python, the software on the box wields the Python Imaging Library, which gives folks flexibility when it comes to typography and graphics, and can leverage the language’s raft of libraries. If you’re not in the mood for coding, however, the contraption brings a few sample applications that’ll print out daily weather reports, sudoku puzzles, tweets and images on 2.25-inch wide receipt paper. The project rings up at $ 189 — $ 100 above its predecessor — but it isn’t up for sale quite yet.

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14 Uses Of Hashtags That Will Make You Cringe

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Using them on wide-ruled notebook paper:

This t-shirt:

Terrible tweets like this:

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