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An aerial view of the Chinese word “Long”, which means dragon, created from broad bean seedlings amongst the flowering of plants in a rape seed field on March 12th 2016 in Anshun, Guizhou Province of China. Credit: Getty Images/ Wu Dongjun
Project Lucy: Confronting Africa’s grand challenges - with Watson’s help
IBM has launched a 10-year initiative to bring Watson and other cognitive systems to Africa in a bid to fuel development and spur business opportunities across the world’s fastest growing continent.
Meet the “Dark Mail Alliance” Planning to Keep the NSA Out of Your Inbox
Email might be on the verge of a radical makeover. And the NSA is not going to like it.
On Wednesday, two American companies with a track record of offering encrypted private communications are set to join forces in an unprecedented bid to counter dragnet Internet spying
Full Story: Slate
Scientists: Pacific Ocean heating up faster than in past 10,000 Years
The Pacific Ocean is warming at a faster rate than it has in the previous 10,000 years, suggesting more difficulties in countering the effects of global warming, according to a new study published Friday in the journal Science.
The study, “Pacific Ocean Heat Content During the Past 10,000 Years,” reconstructs Pacific Ocean temperatures in the last 100 centuries by measuring the chemistry of ancient marine life to recreate the climates in which they lived.
In 2003, researchers went to Indonesia to collect cores of sediment from the seas where water from the Pacific flows into the Indian Ocean. They compared the levels of magnesium to calcium in the shells of Hyalinea balthica, a one-celled organism buried in those sediments, in order to estimate the temperature of the middle-depth waters where the organism lived, about 1,500 to 3,000 feet below sea level.
The measurements of middle-depth temperatures in this region are representative of the larger western Pacific, the researchers said, since the waters around Indonesia originate from the mid-depths of the North and South Pacific.
Based on these findings, researchers concluded that the middle depths have warmed 15 times faster in the last 60 years than they did during natural warming cycles in the previous 10,000 years.
Disney’s latest research could let you feel a jellyfish on your iPad
Disney Research, responsible for futuristic feedback systems like an earlobe speaker and a touch sensor that can work on water, is working on a new way to let people feel what’s on their screens. The group will soon release a paper describing how to turn geometric figures on a touchscreen into simulated textures that users can run their hands across. In a demo video, researchers describe using it to feel the ridges on a map or examine objects that are behind glass. If the examples are any indication, you can do anything from “touch” an apple on a tablet to feel a jellyfish float across your screen.
Foggy River » Frankie Cheek
CHART OF THE DAY: How Do People Really Use Their iPhones And iPads?
Full Story: Business Insider
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Pismo Perfection
Calm and quiet down in Pismo Beach, CA. The sun just beginning to kiss the horizon as colors blend across the sky. Every thing a great landscape photo needs was given this day. What makes this photo perfect to me is the family off in the distance. You can feel the enjoyment that they’re having even though its only a tiny silhouette of them. (For best viewing, view it in full size on flickr)
Here’s a lovely image to start the day … It’s a picture of the view from Urca mountain in Brazil. From picture desk live: the best news images of the day
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