Monthly Archives: December 2018

Band-Aid of the future? These high-tech bandages speed up the healing process

Posted on December 26, 2018 by HeyJK

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The reign of flesh-colored Band-Aids may soon be disrupted. Researchers have revealed a new high-tech competitor that might just revolutionize the healing industry: a self-powered bandage that generates an electric field over a boo-boo.

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Elon Musk reveals plans for SpaceX spaceship that could carry 100 humans to MARS

Posted on December 26, 2018 by HeyJK

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Billionaire Elon Musk has revealed plans for a ­spaceship that could ferry up to 100 people to Mars. The SpaceX boss posted images on Twitter of the “test hopper” prototype that is currently under construction in Texas.

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My Big Lessons from 2018

Posted on December 22, 2018 by HeyJK

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Five people who buy into your mission are better than a hundred people who don’t. This applies to clients, to personnel you’re hiring, to partners you’re going into business with, to allies you’re bringing in to a project. There is strength in numbers but there is also weakness.

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Waze sold to Google for $1 billion — but its CEO says the company owes more to Apple than anything

Posted on December 19, 2018 by HeyJK

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In 2012, one day after the launch of Apple Maps, CEO Tim Cook posted an open letter on the company’s website. But farther down in the letter was something that would change the fate of a small Israeli startup known as Waze forever: suggestions for better map apps.

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Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap

Posted on December 18, 2018 by HeyJK

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This might be my Magnum Opus. Go to https://NordVPN.com/MarkRober and use code MARKROBER to get 75% off a 3 year plan and an extra month for free.My buddy Sean posted a video with more details of the build: https://youtu.be/IpMxOmUcfOIHigh Speed camera courtesy of https://www.aimed-research.com/. T

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Remove Background from Image – remove.bg

Posted on December 17, 2018 by HeyJK

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Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer or selfie lover: Removing backgrounds has never been easier. Spending hour after hour separating foregrounds from backgrounds? There’s a better way now – and it’s FREE.

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20 web design trends for 2019

Posted on December 17, 2018 by HeyJK

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Discover the web design trends, techniques, and tools that will define website and digital product design in 2019 — and beyond. Designers have an … anxious … relationship with the idea of trends.

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Why Design Thinking Works

Posted on December 17, 2018 by HeyJK

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While we know a lot about what practices stimulate new ideas and creative solutions, most innovation teams struggle to realize their benefits. People’s intrinsic biases and behavioral habits inhibit the exercise of the imagination and protect unspoken assumptions about what will or will not work.

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Genius new uses for that old iPhone

Posted on December 16, 2018 by HeyJK

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USA Today contributor Jennifer Jolly shows us some absolutely genius ‘re-uses’ for an that old iPhone that you have lying around the house. USA TODAY The new iPhones are almost here, which means that the older iPhone in your pocket is probably not looking as fresh and fun as it once did.

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Just Exactly Where Is the Final Frontier?

Posted on December 16, 2018 by HeyJK

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There is no sign saying “Welcome to Outer Space” when a ship such as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo arrives at its edge, as it reportedly did on Thursday. The atmosphere doesn’t abruptly end, but thins out gradually. The craft’s maximum altitude of 51.

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New media hit stumbling block, scaring away some investors

Posted on December 15, 2018 by HeyJK

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As legacy news companies suffered tremors over the past decade, money from venture capitalists poured into upstarts that promised to leverage a keener understanding of online reading habits to create a giant-killing class of new media ventures. Today, the money is starting to dry up.

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These People Are Not Real—They Were Created By AI

Posted on December 15, 2018 by HeyJK

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Computers are getting better at generating fake images and video of people saying or doing things they never did in real life.

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Optional OmniFocus Subscriptions

Posted on December 13, 2018 by HeyJK

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But our current model doesn’t cover every situation. It’s designed for software that you run on your own devices, where you can buy something from us and run it for as long as you wish (so long as you keep a compatible system around to run it).

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Virgin Galactic aims to reach space with tourism rocket

Posted on December 13, 2018 by HeyJK

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MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is preparing to take the long-awaited step of trying to fly its tourism rocket ship to the edge of space.

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Samsung angers hypebeasts by partnering with fake Supreme brand in China

Posted on December 11, 2018 by HeyJK

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Samsung is getting criticized by hypebeasts everywhere after it claimed to be collaborating with Supreme; in reality, it partnered with a Supreme rip-off.

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Hundreds of Complaints Flood In About New York Store Signs, but From Whom?

Posted on December 11, 2018 by HeyJK

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The calls to 311 started to pick up steam about a year ago. They were complaints about an arcane New York City statute requiring special permits for businesses to hang signs or awnings larger than six square feet.

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Eric Schmidt: ‘Were The Killer Robots To Start, We Would Find A Way To Stop Them’

Posted on December 11, 2018 by HeyJK

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Tech billionaire Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is optimistic that humans will be able to shut down dangerous machines should they start to appear.

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Super Micro audit complete, including servers supplied to Apple: no spy chips found

Posted on December 11, 2018 by HeyJK

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The tech news was dominated in October by a dramatic Bloomberg claim that Chinese spy chips had been embedded into the Super Micro motherboards of servers supplied to Apple, Amazon and others. The report claimed that Apple had discovered the chips, and reported the fact to the FBI.

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As We May Think

Posted on December 10, 2018 by HeyJK

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This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership.

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50 years on, we’re living the reality first shown at the “Mother of All Demos”

Posted on December 10, 2018 by HeyJK

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A half century ago, computer history took a giant leap when Douglas Engelbart—then a mid-career 43-year-old engineer at Stanford Research Institute in the heart of Silicon Valley—gave what has come to be known as the “mother of all demos.

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