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August 7, 2015
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What happened this week? Here's our quiz for August 7, 2015.
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This Umbrella Teaches Women How To Fight Off Would-Be Attackers
Designed by Vodafone, this umbrella is as good at fending off creeps as it is keeping off the rain.
In India, rape is a depressingly common occurrence. According to official statistics, rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India; nearly 25,000 women reported being raped in 2012 alone, and the actual number of rapes that occurred that year are believed to be far higher.
5 Crazy New Ideas Out Of Disney Research
A taste of the future in animation, motion capture, and 3-D printing, from five new papers published by Disney Research.
Leading up to this year's Siggraph conference—the biggest event of the year in computer graphics and experimental UI—Disney Research comes with a collection of new papers that delve into everything from new methods of 3-D printing action figures to better ways for us to render CGI eyelids.
Apple Imagines A World You Digitize By Touch, And They Aren't Alone
As creative apps go mobile, companies are developing new tools to capture the world.
Apple has filed a patent application for a stylus that you can touch to any surface, take a photo, and store the texture and color data into a 3-D image file. Easy to imagine: you're sitting at Starbucks, drawing on your iPad. You need to add a nice wood grain to a render that you're working on, and instead of searching for one via online databases, you simply tap your pen to the table, digitize the walnut finish, and add it to your scene.
The New Museum's Sonic Installation Makes You The Musician
It's a sensory overload of light, sound, color, and space.
Most of the time, we consume music. But what if a song wasn't a linear event with a beginning and end? What if it's a three-dimensional landscape you're meant to dive into, explore, and shape with your gestures? A new installation at the New Museum is exactly that.
True Love Is Waiting For You On Uber, Yelp, QuizUp, And All Your Other Apps
Apps that aren't meant for dating are always used for dating. That's a good thing—for dating, and for apps.
Within three weeks of launching in 2013, mobile trivia app QuizUp had become the fastest growing mobile game in history. It had also become, to some, more than just a mobile game. "Flirting via QuizUp is not for the faint of heart," wrote The DateReport, a blog created by dating app HowAboutWe. "But the spirit of competition might make you a little bit bolder than you would ordinarily be. With any luck you can school some people with your Hunger Games knowledge, and find someone who wants to make out in the theater while you see Catching Fire for the fifth time."
August 6, 2015
Genius, Washington Post Team Up To Cover GOP Debate
The Post is using Genius to annotate the first Republican presidential debate in real time.
When the Washington Post covers the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday night, it will give readers a voice by letting them annotate the debate transcript as it unfolds. In the first partnership of its kind, the Post will be using the annotation service Genius to mark up the transcript in real time—adding color commentary and context, and allowing readers to do the same.
PornHub Wants To Be The "Netflix Of Porn"
One of the world's most popular adult websites is launching an on-demand streaming platform.
PornHub is debuting a subscription-based streaming platform modeled after Netflix, featuring high-quality videos and exclusive content free of ads.
Twitter Steps Up E-Commerce Efforts With Shopify Partnership
Shopify already works with 100,000 merchants across the country.
Twitter doesn't just want to be where you discuss the Kardashians' latest sartorial choices. The social network would like to become the place where you make your sartorial choices.
IBM's Watson Will Soon Be Able To See
Big Blue has acquired Merge Healthcare, and the marriage of the two company's technology should give Watson a new vision skill set.
IBM's famous cognitive computer can already beat the world's best Jeopardy players. It can create gourmet meals (sort of), help banks with complex financial operations, and attack important health care problems. Now you can add seeing to its skill set.
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