Reminder: One day we’ll all return to sand… So find the courage to open your heart to new opportunities, new experiences, new possibilities, and new adventures. When you live with an open heart, beautiful things will happen. I promise.
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Today, we present to you another addition to the hybrid crowd: recently announced during the Photokina show in Germany, Lumix DMC-CM1 by Panasonic is an Android smartphone and a connected camera packed inside one versatile and futuristic-looking device that should soon find its way to mass production lines.
https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
Statistics in the digital age.
If you’re going to Instagram your food, you may as well do it right. Here’s how.
“Never in business history have we seen a single company with so wide of a scope in its operations, so deep of its analytic capabilities, and so committed to embark on such a bold experiment. It’s set to reinvent the retail industry as we know it.“
Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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‘Westworld’ Creators Explore The ‘Dark Thrills’ Of The Digital Age
Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy offer a pessimistic view of human nature in Westworld, an HBO series about a theme park that allows tourists to act out their Wild West fantasies. They spoke to Fresh Air producer Sam Briger.
Ready for virtual reality? Grab your Google Cardboard headset, download the Vrse app for iOS or Android, download individual videos, and then insert the phone into the viewer to experience them.
The disparity in online access is also apparent in what has been called the “homework gap,” or the gap between school-age children who have access to high-speed internet at home and those who don’t. Some 5 million school-age children do not have a broadband internet connection at home, with low-income households accounting for a disproportionate share.
Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption, Monica Anderson, Pew Research Center
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It breaks my heart that there are children struggling to keep up at school because they don’t have the same access to the Internet as their peers. If you also want to help, please consider donating or volunteering: http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/
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