Striek writes: Several media outlets are reporting that Windows 10 has now started showing full screen ads on users' lock screens. They can be turned off, but how many people will actually bother with this? "Tips site How-To Geek discovered that Windows Spotlight, which normally rotates between a selection of photographs, was being used to display an ad for Square Enix's Rise of the Tomb Raider. Understandably, most people probably don't want to be hit in the face with a full-screen ad for a video game before they even unlock their computer. If you want to make sure you're not hit with these ads, follow these steps to disable Windows Spotlight:
Open the Start Menu and search for "Lock Screen Settings."; Under "Background," select either Picture or Slideshow, instead of Windows Spotlight.; Scroll down to "Get fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen" and this toggle." Apparently the "and more" is where Microsoft hid the advertisements.
schwit1 writes: Drinking more coffee might help reduce the kind of liver damage that's associated with overindulging in food and alcohol, a review of existing studies suggests. Researchers analyzed data from nine previously published studies with a total of more than 430,000 participants and found that drinking two additional cups of coffee a day was linked to a 44% lower risk of developing liver cirrhosis.
Of course this "robot taking human abuse" thing is a PsyOp to make people like more and have more empathy towards (possibly killer) robots.
Boston Dynamics, creator of the Big Dog prancing robot, has upgraded their Atlas robot, which can walk on two legs, open doors, stack boxes, walk on slippery terrain, recover from being shoved, etc. And everyone's all HA HA HA TERMINATOR but soon enough the HA HAs will become less hearty and more nervous. It took human ancestors hundreds of thousands of years to evolve from quadrupeds to bipeds and Boston Dynamics has done the same in just a few years.
Mark my words: no good will come of playing box keep-away with robots and treating them like, well, machines. It's already started...did you notice Atlas didn't even look behind itself to see if it needed to hold the door for anyone? And you think manspreading on the subway is a problem...wait until we have to deal with robotspreading by robots whose ancestors we shoved with hockey sticks.
In a troubling new development in the domestic consumer surveillance debate, an investigation into Samsung Smart TVs has revealed that user voice commands are recorded, stored, and transmitted to a third party. The company even warns customers not to discuss personal or sensitive information within earshot of the device. The new Samsung controversy stems from the discovery of a single haunting statement in the company's "privacy policy," which states: "Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party."
Brendan Eich, co-fundador e ex-CEO da Mozilla, agora é o CEO da empresa que está lançando o Brave, um navegador com um modelo de negócios otimista: oferecer a seus usuários uma experiência mais rápida e fluida, em que os anúncios e trackers colocados pelos sites visitados são removidos, exceto para os sites em que o usuário explicitamente registrar em um menu o desejo de continuar a ver os anúncios.
Boa sorte para ele. A verdadeira surpresa, para mim, foi ver que o navegador em questão é baseado no Chromium, e não no código do Mozilla.
Criado pelo cofundador da Mozilla, Brendan Eich, o novo navegador Brave lançou nesta semana a sua primeira versão para desktop e aparelhos móveis, incluindo iOS, Android, Mac OS X e Windows.
Com foco em privacidade e velocidade, o Brave redireciona os sites para HTTPS e também traz recursos de adblocking, mas de uma maneira diferente. Em vez de simplesmente apagar todos os anúncios da página, o browser foca em apagar a publicidade que considera invasiva.
Desta forma, os anúncios programáticos que usam o histórico de buscas dos usuários para direcionar os conteúdos serão substituídos por publicidade que o Brave acredita ser mais interessante para o internauta – vale notar que esses anúncios substitutos vem de um catálogo da própria companhia.
“Por padrão, o Brave vai inserir anúncios apenas em alguns espaços de tamanho padrão. Encontramos esses espaços por meio de um robô na nuvem”, afirma a empresa.
No momento, o Brave só está disponível em repositório do Github, o que pode não ser a maneira mais adequada de baixar o navegador para todos os usuários, já possui alguns bugs e o processo exige algum conhecimento sobre o assunto. Quem preferir esperar por uma versão mais estável do browser, pode se inscrever no site da empresa para receber uma notificação sobre o lançamento da versão beta.
2016 será o ano de fazer mais com menos. A crise econômica tem impactado todas as indústrias e, até o final do ano passado, o e-commerce não tinha sentido tanto o baque da recessão. Pelo contrário, houve crescimento no comércio eletrônico. No entanto, este ano já começa com as mudanças do ICMS entre os estados, que tributam duplamente as empresas, aumentam a burocracia e elevam os preços dos produtos.
Então, diante de tudo, é preciso ter resiliência e criatividade para manter os clientes engajados e seguir crescendo na crise. Falando em criatividade, nada como relembrar um personagem da infância que está novamente em cartaz nos cinemas em novas aventuras. O Snoopy existe há mais de 50 anos e muitas de suas histórias podem nos inspirar enquanto pessoas e profissionais.
Inspiração 1: Sonhe
O Snoopy é um sonhador. Schulz, o criador do personagem, numa entrevista em 1997, disse o seguinte acerca do caráter do cachorro: “ele tem que sair do seu mundo de fantasia para sobreviver. Por outro lado, se assim fosse, ele levaria uma vida miserável e aborrecida.”
Só realiza sonhos quem possui objetivos. E só tem objetivo quem se planeja. Neste ano, desenvolva um planejamento ainda mais minucioso sobre seus objetivos de marketing e nossa dica é: foque na retenção de clientes. É mais barato, mais efetivo e faz bem para a marca.
Inspiração 2: Comece pelo simples
Mesmo vivendo no mundo da fantasia, Snoopy leva uma vida simples ao lado de seu dono e amigo Charlie Brown. Faça como ele e simplifique, comece pelo básico: um planejamento mensal.
Um dos primeiros desenvolvimentos do personagem de Snoopy foi a sua tendência para dormir no telhado da sua casa, em vez de dentro dela. Assim que Charlie Brown construiu a casinha para seu novo amigo, Snoopy imediatamente subiu e acomodou-se sobre o telhado.
Dormir sob as estrelas, pensar fora da caixa, fazer diferente, causar disruptura. Às vezes é o necessário para conseguir resultados surpreendentes. Como no caso da campanha da BHG Hoteis que ousou trabalhar branding e vendas simultaneamente e tem revolucionado o jeito de comunicar hotelaria.
Inspiração 4: Tenha aliados
À exceção do seu dono, Charlie Brown, o melhor amigo de Snoopy é o pequeno pássaro amarelo Woodstock, que o acompanha em suas aventuras e fantasias. Em nossa vida profissional, especialmente nós, profissionais de marketing, precisamos ter várias camadas da empresa como aliadas em nossos planos. Vendas, TI, logística, operação. É preciso que todos estejam alinhados com nossos objetivos, fazendo a roda girar e os clientes felizes.
Inspiração 5: Celebre as vitórias
Snoopy sempre comemora a hora da comida com uma dancinha feliz. Se você um cliente realiza a segunda compra, se você bateu a meta ou alcançou um ROI incrível, não esqueça de dançar. Em momentos difíceis, cada pequena vitória é motivo para comemorar. Isso dá entusiasmo e gás para seguir adiante.
Por fim…
Quando Snoopy conhece Charlie Brown, o cachorro já havia estado com outra família, que não pôde mantê-lo. Foi um momento de crise para Snoopy, mas depois ele encontrou seu grande melhor amigo. Charlie não tinha dinheiro suficiente para comprar Snoopy, mas conquistou a simpatia do vendedor e levou a melhor.
Alguma semelhança com a vida real?
Se sobrar um tempinho, assista ao episódio a que nos referimos: quando os amigos Snoopy e Charlie se conhecem:
A Microsoft transformou mais um dos projetos sob sua tutela em um projeto de código aberto, desta vez foi o Chakra, que é uma das peças fundamentais do novo browser do Windows 10, o Microsoft Edge.
A Microsoft abriu o código fonte do Chakra Javascript uma engine da empresa utilizada no Microsoft Edge, no Xbox e outros programas do Windows. A promessa da liberação havia sido feito no ano passado ainda mas só neste ano se tornou realidade.
O projeto de código aberto inclui todas as ferramentas necessárias para analisar, interpretar, compilar e executar o código JavaScript sem depender do Edge. Isso permite que os desenvolvedores incorporem o motor em seus projetos e ampliem sua utilização.
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Dr. Jane Goodall is an environmentalist, humanitarian, author, UN Messenger of Peace and one of the most famous scientists alive. Her groundbreaking studies of chimpanzees changed our perception of our primate cousins and consequently, how humans looked at themselves.
Goodall was 23 when she first visited Africa and met the famous palaeontologist Louis Leakey. Although she didn’t have a university degree, Leakey was so impressed with Goodall’s knowledge of Africa and its wildlife, he hired her as his assistant. Goodall was the first of Leakey’s ‘Trimates’ who were chosen to study primates in the wild, the other two being Diane Fossey (gorillas) and Birute Galdikas (orang-utans). In 1960, aged 26, Goodall arrived at what is now known as Gombe National Park where she began her painstaking study of chimpanzees, living among them in their natural habitat.
Besides being the first human to be accepted into a chimpanzee community, Goodall made several pioneering discoveries. She was the first to record chimpanzees eating meat (they were previously believed only to be vegetarian) and use tools for finding food. Tool making was previously one of the traits that scientists believed made humans ‘special’, but with Goodall’s discovery that notion was shattered. Leakey famously said “Now we must redefine tool, redefine Man, or accept chimpanzees as humans.” Even though some experts criticised the unscientific methods of Goodall (she later earned her Ph.D in 1965), her findings were hugely important and defined our understanding of chimpanzees.
In 1977, Goodall founded The Jane Goodall Institute, dedicated to protecting chimpanzees, preserving their habitats and improving the world we all share. In 1991, she founded Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, a global youth program dedicated to environmentalism, which now has over 150,000 members in 130 countries. Goodall, at 81 years old, still works tirelessly today as an advocate for the planet and its wildlife, travelling for most of the year and spreading her message.
The passage used in this comic is taken from an article Goodall wrote for Time magazine in 2002. In it, Goodall outlines the reasons for hope she has for our planet despite the overwhelming odds facing us. Thankfully, Goodall has recently updated her article for 2016, which can be read in full here.
Wheels, as we know them, could stand a little reinvention. They take fiddling and time to move into parallel spaces, and the whole world would be a better place if wheels could simply pull us sideways without any forward momentum. Fortunately, "mecanum wheels" exist. Here, watch a robot demonstrate them:
Here’s how botmaker MicroRobo describes their creation:
This Mecanum wheel mobile Arduino robotics car can be made to move in any direction and turn by varying the direction and speed of each wheel. Moving all four wheels in the same direction causes forward/backward movement, running left/right sides in opposite directions causes rotation, and running front and rear in opposite directions causes sideways movement. The platform rear wheels are mounted in a particular way, so that the suspension structure ensures that all four wheels can adhere to the ground, even when the ground is uneven.
С 3000 года до н. э. по сегодняшний день на гуглооснове представлены политические карты за каждый год.
Охуенно смотрится и в общем масштабе, и в приближении. Можно перематывать по годам, по десять лет и по сто лет.
Проделана отличная кропотливая работа, наконец-то кто-то собрал вместе все сведения, оформил в виде карты и снабдил подписями и дополнительными ссылками, мегареспект разработчикам.
2016 год до нашей эры (египтяне, шумеры и инды - никакого, сука, ООН):
Первый год нашей эры (Христос еще жив, Римская империя видна):
1016 (покупаем набор разноцветных карандашей):
1216 (пошла мелка шинковка):
1316 (монголы пришли, епта):
1416 (митохондрии делятся):
1516 (вот это горчичное пятно в центре - это Россия):
1616 (горчичное пятно выросло):
1716 (горчичное пятно завоевало Сибирь):
1816 (Африка еще белая, да простят мне этот каламбур):
1916 (на свете около 100 стран):
2016 (на свете около 250 стран, Крым в очередной раз наш):
jones_supa writes: Legendary game developer John Romero took to Twitter to spread the word that he has made a comeback to the world of Doom by designing an all new level. Romero's return to the game that jumpstarted his career in game development is a fun little Friday surprise for developers, especially Doom enthusiasts, some of whom are thanked in the readme file accompanying the level. The new level, E1M8B (ZIP), is described simply as "My Boss level replacement for e1m8...22 years later." E1M8 is, incidentally, the final level of Doom's first episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead.
The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world.
Absolutely wow.
I’m going to cry
that is absolutely horrifying.
HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING!
Why am I finding out about this now??
“Foolish creature of the flesh. I am ancient. I am forever. I have seen Empires rise and fall. I have seen entire species wither to cinders. I have seen the depths and the cold and the abyss that lay beyond. You are no more a nuisance to me than plankton. You are so insignificant, and I am so exquisitely eternal that I am the closest thing you will have to a God.” -What I imagine the jellyfish would say to a human
DON’T
GET ME STARTED
ON THESE MOTHERFUCKERS
That is horrifying.
If that’s scary, than say hello to my little friend, the “Stygiomedusa gigantea.”
This guy has only been spotted 18 times, and filmed only twice.
Its is also about 6 meters long and about a meter wide. Sadly it doesn’t have stingers, but it will still eat. It kinda just engulfs all it’s prey. I’m not real sure.
Aren’t Jellyfish so great? Because I think they are evil.
Jellyfish are actually the only creature we know of to have mastered total neurological regeneration as well as muscular regeneration, making them immortal.
Things don’t get better just because the calendar changed. Things get better because you make them get better. Just a reminder from Megan McKay at the webcomic Doodle for Food. -via imgur
Trying to imagine the scope of the cosmos is nearly impossible, but musician and artist Pablo Carlos Budassi decided to make a visual attempt by cramming the entire known universe into a single image. Using scores of satellite images and photos snapped from NASA’s rovers, he painstakingly pieced together many of the prominent features of the universe as observed from our solar system in the form of a logarithmic map. Logarithms are useful for understanding large numbers or distances, so in Budassi’s map each consecutive ‘ring’ around the circle represents several orders of magnitude further than the one before it.
Budassi was aided by similar (though less visually stunning) logarithmic maps produced by astronomers at Princeton back in 2005. In this map, our sun and solar system are seen in the middle, followed by the Milky Way Galaxy, another ring of nearby galaxies like Andromeda, all the way out to cosmic radiation and plasma generated by the bing bang on the furthest outskirts of the image.
Here at Film School Rejects, we believe that a healthy movie diet is at least one new release per week. We don’t all have time to see every single one of the more than 300 feature films that will be released in the next calendar year. Our critic Rob Hunter might come close, as will an elite few whose time and finances line up perfectly with seeing a bunch of movies. For the rest of us, we’ll have to be on a diet. There will be plenty of great TV to watch, a cornucopia of titles on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and iTunes to stream, and of course, plenty of time spent reading articles on the Internet.
As we’ve done in years past, we’d like to help you navigate the oncoming tidal wave of new movies. We believe that your movie diet is best balanced by seeing one new release for every week of the year. This doesn’t mean that there will be a good new release every week, but you get the idea. It’s with that in mind that we present our list of the 52 Most Anticipated Movies of 2016.
If you’d like, you can catch up on previous years below:
The Pitch: It’s been a while since Michael Bay has made an earnest “Rah! Rah!” movie about the military, but it’s a theme that he’s continued, albeit in a minor way, throughout the Transformers franchise. The man loves to make movies that go boom, but he also loves to make movies that are favorable to America’s armed forces. Considering the acclaim that Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper received, this should be a movie that speaks to America’s most gun-toting, flag waiving demographic. Plus, as a bonus for more Conservative viewers, it’s all about Benghazi. The possibility of seeing a Michael Bay movie that unintentionally balloons into a political quagmire is far too interesting to pass up. Plus, Michael Bay does make blowing stuff up look really fun. Harrowing. I meant harrowing. (Neil Miller)
The Pitch: Earlier this month, Jason Bailey of Flavorwire wrote a great piece on why the biopic – and the “cradle-to-grave” narrative that it implies – was a bubble poised to burst. That’s not exactly great news for Tom Hiddleston, who looks and sounds the part of a young Hank Williams in I Saw the Light and certainly hoped for better than a March release date. Still, it’s not all bad news; movies like Ray and Walk the Line have shown that that audiences and critics alike will let their guard down for a quality movie about famed singer-songwriters, and the musical numbers included in the film will undoubtedly give it some cross-genre appeal. Maybe we’re tired of biopics, but a good ol’ fashioned Country musical? That dog’ll hunt. (Matthew Monagle)
The Pitch: The first film was a home invasion thriller focused on one family’s efforts to resist the Purge, and the sequel followed a small band of survivors trapped outdoors when all hell broke loose. Little is known about the third film’s plot specifics, but there’s really only one detail needed to get our butts in seats opening weekend. Will Frank Grillo be returning to kick ass for the underdogs? The answer is yes. (Rob Hunter)
49. Pete’s Dragon
Release Date: July 1
The Pitch: We wouldn’t normally be excited about a rehash of a beloved Disney family film, especially since the Witch Mountain redo was merely passable. However, the studio has turned this new take on their 1977 sorta-classic live-action and animation hybrid into a kind of prestige pic by hiring visionary indie darlings David Lowery and Toby Halbrooks. They’re the writer/director and producer, respectively, of Ain’t Them Body Saints and have also been involved with such non-mainstream efforts as Upstream Color and Listen Up Philip. And with their acclaimed short Pioneer (watch it), they’ve already kind of tackled children’s story territory. Add to all this Robert Redford cast in the Mickey Rooney role and we see this as the most exciting auteur-helmed kids movie since Robert Altman’s Popeye — and yes, we love Robert Altman’s Popeye. (Christopher Campbell)
48. Synchronicity
Release Date: January 22
The Pitch: Writer/Director Jacob Gentry’s 2007 film The Signal is a film with which we had a lot of fun. We expect a little bit of the same from Synchronicity, his new film about time travel, love and corporate interests. In his review of the film at the Fantasia Film Festival last year, Rob Hunter called it “Gumby sci-fi,” a film that (for better and sometimes worse) is too worried about being bendy and fun. It’s the “bendy and fun” part that has the rest of us interested. It promises to be a little bit of Blade Runner with a twisted sense of humor. In fact, it sounds like a movie that might make a nice reprieve from the doldrums of January. (Neil Miller)
The Pitch: In a surprise debut at Butt-Numb-a-Thon in Austin this past month, Eddie the Eagle was met with cheers from a weary-eyed crowd of movie marathoning nerds. That is to say that apparently it’s a lot of fun. The story of Britain’s first ever Olympic ski jump competitor, the colorful Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards, Eddie brings together a number of fan favorites. Kingsman‘s Taron Egerton stars in the titular role. Hugh Jackman plays his unorthodox coach. Christopher Walken is there, too. According to the vibes from the trailer, it’s going to be a rambunctious feel-good movie. One of those quirky, yet triumphant sports tales. And for those, we have a spot in our collective heart. (Neil Miller)
The Pitch: It’s unlikely that this comedy sequel will be as good as the original, but as long as Rose Byrne is back, we’re on board, as well. We’re actually hopeful that director Nicholas Stoller and his writing collaborators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have recognized that Byrne was the best thing about Neighbors and put her even more front and center in part two. After all, the adversary this time around is a sorority girl (Chloe Grace Moretz), and from a presumable gender-matching standpoint, she’d be the Zac Efron (who is also returning) to Byrne’s Rogen. Even if she’s not its primary lead, though, Byrne will still steal the show anyway. (Christopher Campbell)
45. Demolition
Release Date: April 8
The Pitch: Jean-Marc Vallée has been on an incredible run over the last 3 years. In 2011, he delivered Dallas Buyers Club and earned an Oscar nomination for editing. In 2013, he helmed the Reese Witherspoon soul searching drama Wild. In 2015, he took his new film Demolition to the Toronto Film Festival where it earned some praise from critics. The film tells the story of an investment banker (Jake Gyllenhaal) who struggles to deal with the loss of his wife in a car crash. Any movie that combines the eye of Vallée with talents like Gyllenhaal and his co-star Naomi Watts should be a film that deserves our attention. (Neil Miller)
44. The Accountant
Release Date: October 7
The Pitch: It feels like it’s been a few years since we spent any real time with “Ben Affleck, Actor”. Sure, we’ve spent months with “Ben Affleck, Husband” courtesy of the tabloids and the highly visible dissolution of his marriage. And sure, we’ve had plenty of time to check out “Ben Affleck, Human Action Figure” with the new publicity stills and trailers for the Batman V. Superman movie. Hell, we’ve even gotten used to “Ben Affleck, Prestige Filmmaker” thanks to Argo and the latest season of Project Greenlight. But “Ben Affleck, Actor”? Someone who reads a script, likes the character he is being offered, and does his best to play said character in an engaging and exciting way? We can’t think of a better way to get reacquainted than with a thriller about a professional killer. (Matthew Monagle)
43. Everybody Wants Some
Release Date: April 15
The Pitch: In March, Richard Linklater will bring his spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused back to Austin to kick off the South by Southwest Film Festival. About a month later, audiences around the country will have the opportunity to go back to the 1980s with one of film’s preeminent purveyors of Americana. This time it’s the story of a group of college baseball players who have recently become unburdened of supervision and make their way through the highs and lows of early adulthood. It’s not quite as ambitious as Boyhood, but Linklater’s comfort zone is riding around in cars with the good ole’ boys, so this should be a lot of fun. (Neil Miller)
The Pitch: If the rest of this movie is as good as the sloth-scene teaser currently killing it in theaters, we could be getting the best non-Pixar animated feature from Disney in decades. Or at least the funniest, which would make sense coming from the union of directors Byron Howard (Bolt) and Rich Moore (Wreck-It Ralph). Set in a metropolis populated by anthropomorphic mammals, the buddy cop comedy looks like the big-screen Richard Scarry movie we’ve never gotten. Zootopia stars the voices of Jason Bateman and Ginnifer Goodwin as a con artist fox teamed up with a by-the-books police officer bunny for a missing person — er, missing otter — case. (Christopher Campbell)
The Pitch: Matthew McConaughey plays a southern farmer named Newt Knight who, during the Civil War, teams up with a group of slaves to lead a rebellion against the Confederate Army. Aside from the fact that some of the puns just write themselves for this one (“Alright, alright, all Knight” or “Alright, alright, White Knight”), there’s also a great deal of prestige behind this pic. It’s written and directed by Seabiscuit and The Hunger Games director Gary Ross and it will co-star the rising talent of Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Also, Kerri Russell. This isn’t likely to be a charming McConaughey romp, but rather a dark, thoughtful movie about a small area of the deep south that stood up against the ugliness of the slave-owning states that surrounded it. Most importantly, the McConnaisance continues. (Neil Miller)
The media industry was more than a little alarmed when 4K bootlegs of Amazon and Netflix streams showed up this November. Weren't these feeds supposed to be relatively safe from pirates? It's no surprise, then, that they're doing something about it...
A selection of images of some of the best animal photos of 2015 from photographers all around the world.
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By Leanne Burden Seidel Cats crowd the harbor on Aoshima Island in the Ehime prefecture in southern Japan, Feb. 25. An army of cats rules the remote island in southern Japan, curling up in abandoned houses or strutting about in a fishing village that is overrun with felines outnumbering humans six to one.
(Thomas Peter/Reuters)
Dormir sob as estrelas, pensar fora da caixa, fazer diferente, causar disruptura. Às vezes é o necessário para conseguir resultados surpreendentes. Como no caso da campanha da BHG Hoteis que ousou trabalhar branding e vendas simultaneamente e tem revolucionado o jeito de comunicar hotelaria.
The media industry was more than a little alarmed when 4K bootlegs of Amazon and Netflix streams showed up this November. Weren't these feeds supposed to be relatively safe from pirates? It's no surprise, then, that they're doing something about it...
