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There will be no Adobe CS7. Today, Adobe announced its new Creative Cloud apps and services, which will be the only way to get the newest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, and Premiere Pro. After a decade of Creative Suite programs, Adobe is going subscription only with the CC family of apps and services. If Creative Cloud sounds familiar, that's because it's not new. Adobe introduced the service last year as a complimentary offering alongside Creative Suite--Creative
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Further to the CAS paper presented at Koli Calling 2011 in Finland in November 2011, Neil Brown (University of Kent) presented a paper entitled: Bringing Computer Science Back Into Schools: Lessons From The UK at SIGCSE’13, the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, in Denver in March. The paper is available to download […]
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Today's topic is a subjective one. And that's actually true for many aspects of photography. Aside from the technical know-how that you can learn about operating a camera, accessories, and software, there really aren't many "rules" to taking a photo. The appeal of a photo is entirely up to eye of the beholder, and certain techniques better fit specific needs of the target viewer (eg. composing a commercial photograph vs. one for photojournalism). There are, however, guidelines that have proven
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Robert Downey Jr. owned the screen in all of his scenes in 2008's Iron Man, but the next-most popular characters in the film weren't human beings--they were robots. Tony Stark's robotic assistants, which he constantly chides and quips at, are imbued with a ton of personality through simple sound effects and exaggerated mannerisms, drooping sheepishly when they fail Stark. Those are emotions--not real ones, because Iron Man is a movie. But a very interesting, and very detailed, article from
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Skyscrapers are not built of steel and glass, but from statistics. They are bar graphs, their height and size representing population and wealth and other statistics of the urban landscape. At least, that's what mathematicians in the field of quantitative urbanism see when they gaze up at the buildings towering above. While the general idea of studying how cities form and operate dates back as far as cities have existed, the specific practice of quantitative urbanism is much newer.Photo credit:
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WE CAME, WE SAW, WE CERNED We were thrilled to spend Friday morning with the folks at TEDxCERN via webcast, enjoying fascinating talks by CI director Ian Foster and several other amazing scientists and educators. Foster’s talk focused on “The Discovery Cloud,” the idea that many complex and time-consuming research tasks can be moved to [...]
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One of the reasons I'm still using native iOS apps for basic utilities like email is that Apple's apps are the default paths for most types of links. Click a link to a webpage in almost every app and you have to open it in Safari. Same goes with links to addresses and the troubled iOS Maps app. Short of jailbreaking your iPhone, there's no easy way to assign specific apps to open certain types of links in iOS. But the newly updated Gmail iOS app actually allows that. After this update, you have
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By popular request, for the next 36 hours—so, from now until ~11PM on Tuesday—I’ll have a long-overdue edition of “Ask Me Anything.” (For the previous editions, see here, here, here, and here.) Today’s edition is partly to celebrate my new, tenured “freedom to do whatever the hell I want” (as well as the publication after 7 [...]
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While decoding the genome is important, it is as important to figure what is where. The following paper provides a means of figuring out all the species in very large microbial samples through an adaptive sensing using sparsity of the underlying number of species. I am not sure how difficult it is to perform adaptive measurements in this context, but it would be interesting to see if a non adaptive sensing or pooling mechanism reaching the k = m + 1 bound would not be more interesting
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Late last week, Intel unveiled some features and performance data for the graphics cores in their upcoming Haswell CPU. Most of the hoopla revolved around Haswell’s graphics performance on laptops, but Intel also disclosed some interesting bits about desktop processors. Before diving into that, it’s worth considering how integrated graphics typically plays out on desktop PCs.First Puzzle Piece: Performance CPUs Rarely Use IGPsOn the mobile side, most Intel-based laptops currently include
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The Play Store is gaining new apps at an astounding rate -- so fast that you could never hope to keep up with all the notable apps. But don't fret. We're skimming the best new and newly updated stuff off the top and dropping it here in the weekly Google Play App Roundup. Just click on the app name to head right to the Play Store.This week there's a new podcast app worth your time, a game with lots of punching, and an eerie adventure game.Player FMIt has been a long time since I saw a new
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