Thursday, March 1, 2012

Google: Technology Is Making Science Fiction Real

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Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicted Tuesday that rapid advances in technology will soon transform science fiction into reality – meaning people will have driverless cars, small robots at their command and the ability to experience being in another place without leaving home.

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Tutorial Roundup: How To Draw People

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A lot of people think to draw you have to be blessed with a divinely orchestrated talent. It helps, but this is not true! Creating art, especially learning how to draw people, is a learned skill! You just have to have the correct instructors who will help you train your eye and develop art based skills. This is where I can help!

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A $1.5 Billion Advertising Giant Will Be Created Tomorrow

MediaBank and its competitor Donovan Data Systems have intended to merge for a few months.

Now the Department of Justice has given its stamp of approval and the two will become a new company, Mediaocean, tomorrow.

The deal values Mediaocean at $1.5 billion. MediaBank CEO Bill Wise tells us it will manage well north of $100 billion in advertising spending.

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The Beauty of Italy in 50 Stunning Photos

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Italy is a peninsula in South-Central Europe that can brag with one of the richest histories of the world. Its capital, Roma, was the capital of the Roman Empire and remained, for centuries, the core of the political and religious Western civilization.

Today, Italy is famous through its special assortments of food, like pizza and pasta, through the beautiful beaches and mountains, through monuments and remains of the brilliant Roman civilization.

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TED Future: Hypersonic Gliders, Liquid Batteries and Flying Robots

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This morning, the TED conference brought researchers out of the lab to show off their latest gadgets — if you can use the word “gadget” to describe a hypersonic Mach 20 glider, autonomous and collaborative flying robots and a long-lasting liquid battery.

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The World's Strongest Economy?

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The annual Artprice report is out – the first of a group of annual analyses of the global art market, most of which generally repeat each others’ findings in one way or another. The biggest news: art sales for 2011, according to ArtPrice, were the highest in history:

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Reminder: Google's New Privacy Policy Kicks In Tomorrow

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Remember Google's new privacy policy? You know, the one where Google says they will track you across all their services and share that data? Yeah, it goes into effect tomorrow. Time to prepare!

If you're paranoid about your activity circulating through certain parts of the interwebz, you should turn off your history on Google and YouTube, for which there are instructions here and here. And if you're really paranoid, you can also consider getting rid of your Google accounts entirely. If you're not really all that concerned, well, ummmm, continue as you were.

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