Author Archives
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A Visual Guide To Statistics
Kunin’s interactive online resource is called Seeing Theory, and the website features five areas of statistics, including basic and compound probability, distributions, statistical inference, and linear regressions. Each of these topic areas is broken down into a series of three… Read More ›
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The Sony World Photography Awards 2017
The 2017 Sony World Photography Awards, which marks its 10th anniversary this year, has released the shortlisted images for the 2017 competition. This year saw a record number of participating photographers with 227,596 images entered across the awards’ Professional, Open… Read More ›
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Cost of hospital gloves: $5,141
Sometimes, Twitter is the perfect platform to counter a powerful person’s b*llshit. Tweeted by Tyler Conway.
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Apple Notes: nothing better?
Apple’s refreshed note-taking app landed with impeccable timing: it supported the then-new iPad Split View in the first beta of the OS released in June, and Apple deftly positioned Notes as a nimble, multi-purpose tool that many saw as a… Read More ›
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iOS 11 Concept
A clever video concept. Some very useful new features that fit well with the current structure of the OS.
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Sinclair ZX Vega+ funding campaign halted
Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo intervened to stop a handheld retro computer console campaign from acquiring further funding, the BBC has learned. The Spectrum ZX Vega+, backed by Sir Clive Sinclair, had achieved its original crowdfunding target. But then Indiegogo halted further… Read More ›
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That Psion feeling. It never leaves you.
For those of you who did not experience the Psion PDAs, you maybe think that those of us who bang on and on about them are just wishing to go back in time in a rose coloured time machine. We… Read More ›
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Your watch faces
Well, I asked to see your watch faces and Neil and Bob did not disappoint, apart from the fact that they appear to have made them as functional and uncolourful as possible. And then Trevor sent me one. “This is… Read More ›
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Judge blocks FBI from forcing fingerprints from targets to unlock iPhones
In the latest skirmish over privacy in the cellphone age, a federal judge in Chicago has rejected a law enforcement request to force potential targets in an ongoing investigation to provide fingerprints to unlock any iPhones or other Apple devices…. Read More ›
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I don’t like ad-blockers, but…
While checking out the article about fingerprints above, I thought I would run Ghostery on Chicago Tribune to see what it would try to block. Is there really any need for any site to need that many trackers etc?
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