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Friday, 20 November 2015

See The Public Toilets In China Which Are Equipped With ATMs, WiFi, Air Conditioners

New public restrooms equipped with ATMs, vehicle charging piles, recycling machines, wireless network coverage, e-commerce terminals and water vending machines were unveiled in Beijing on Thursday. The new restrooms even provided the janitors with shower room and specific room to take a break. The restrooms are also equipped with air conditioners and heaters. They are also user-friendly for the disabled, the elderly and mothers.
The Public Toilets In China Which Are Equipped With ATMs, WiFi, Air Conditioners

"Awesome Creativity"; Man Designs Bridge Made Of Papers, Drives Range Rover Across It - Photos

This is creativity in action... This is a picture of a 2,570-kilogram SUV driving across a bridge made of papers. And the surprising thing is that the five-meter arched bridge is not meshed or bolstered by glue or bolts. According to its designer, Steve Messam, it took him 54,390 sheets of paper and three days to build the bridge.
The papers used for construction will later be used to make notebooks, which will be donated to children in need.
Man Designs Bridge Made Of Papers, Drives Range Rover Across It

Thursday, 19 November 2015

In Photos: President Buhari Inspects Made In Nigeria Peugeot Cars At The Presidential Villa



President Muhummadu Buhari inspecting one of the Made in Nigeria Peugeot Cars after receivinga n audience, The Executive Vice President, Middle East and Africa, Peugeot Citreon, SA, France in Statehouse on 19th Nov 2015..

Thursday, 12 November 2015

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Shares Photo Of His Grandparents

Pictured below -Mark Zuckerberg's grandfather Jack Zuckerberg who served as a military officer in World War II with his wife. The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared the photo on his page to celebrate the American veterans day where heroes who fought for the country are recognized....

Wednesday, 11 November 2015

This Japanese paper drone weighs just 1oz and flies like an origami bird


A Japanese company has a unique take on drones: At a recent trade show in Tokyo, LAPIS Semiconductor demoed the Orizuru, a remote control origami crane that’s made mostly of paper and weighs only one ounce (31g, to be precise).
The body consists of a 3D-printed nylon filament skeleton and layers of paper. It took three months to design and build, and incorporates LAPIS’Lazurite Fly microcomputer that is claimed to be 90 percent more energy efficient than rivals like Arduino and is roughly the size of an SD card.

GIFs now working on all Facebook pages

Back in May, Facebook finally rolled out proper GIF support, but while they could used on personal accounts, most businesses couldn’t share them on their public pages.
That appears to have changed. Pages of all kinds (including yours truly) now seem to be able to post GIF links that animate properly in posts.
Previously, only a select few publishers were allowed to test the feature.
That said, you have to share a link from another host for the GIFs to work – direct uploads will not play.
It’s surely a welcome change for meme-savvy social media managers who’ve been patiently waiting to be able to post animated photos.
Cheers to that.

Apple reiterates that it’s ‘impossible’ to unlock newer iPhones for authorities

As the United States government has laid pressure on technology companies to provide backdoor access to encryption, Apple has consistently fought back.
Today in a New York court, Apple told a federal magistrate judge that the company could not unlock iPhones running iOS 8 or higher even if it wanted to.
Apple called the request to access an encrypted iPhone “impossible to perform” on more than 90 percent of devices running iOS 8 and up.

Ignore the headlines! autonomous cars are still safer than humans

A preliminary study on the safety of self-driving vehicles conducted by The Univeristy of Michigan Transportation Research Institute revealed autonomous cars are responsible for more accidents than their human-driven coutnerparts.
But, the numbers might not be telling the whole story.
Lost in the whirlwind of big headlines about killer robot cars was this seemingly important bit of information found right in the beginning of the study:
“Two important caveats should be considered when interpreting the findings. First, the distance accumulated by self-driving vehicles is still relatively low (about 1.2 million miles, compared with about 3 trillion annual miles in the U.S. by conventional vehicles) … Therefore, their exposure has not yet been representative of the exposure for conventional vehicles.”
Tiny things like lack of a representative sample size have been known to make numbers tell a story that might not be at all indicative of the facts. Brandon Schoettle, one of the study’s authors agrees. He told NBC:
“One might conclude that self-driving vehicles are more dangerous, but I don’t think the data actually show[s] that right now. They appear to be more likely to be involved in crashes in general (though not at fault and always being hit by conventional vehicles), but the injuries that occurred were less severe, and all minor so far.”
The data showed a total of 11 crashes among three makers of self-driving cars, Google, Delphi and Audi. All 11 crashes and the bulk of the 1.2 million miles driven on public roads occurred in the Google autonomous vehicle.

Pushbullet’s Android 6.0 Marshmallow update brings on-demand app permissions

In a blog post earlier today, Pushbullet, the app that brings multi-device sharing to Android announced an update for Android 6.0 (Marshmallow).
The update wasn’t a small one and featured the typical security and bug fixes as well as improvements to minor annoyances such as slow SMS sync, battery use, and for good measure the team even shrunk the app size by 25 percent.
As far as feature releases, perhaps the star of the show are the individualized runtime permissions. Rather than approving blanket access for permissions when installing the app, you can now approve them as your app needs them.
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