Topic: EU - on June 26, 2016 at 12:51:00 PM CEST
Brexit: Expats denied say in EU referendum due to missing postal votes demand re-run after scandal is revealed
Anger is growing among countless British expats who say they have been “disenfranchised” in the EU referendum because their postal votes failed to arrive.
Since The Independent revealed the scandal on Thursday, more than 100 people have said they had confirmation that they registered within the Government’s deadline but never received the ballot.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on June 25, 2016 at 5:13:00 PM CEST
The Mill BLACKBIRD
The Mill BLACKBIRD is a new fully adjustable car rig for creating CG cars for the advertising industry. The goal of the BLACKBIRD is to eliminate the need for specific physical cars on commercial sets, allowing creatives to shoot a real car and skin it later in the editing process. The BLACKBIRD can adjust its length by up to four feet and width by ten inches. The wheels can be replaced with whatever tire fits the actual car, and its electric engine can be programmed to behave like the engine in the actual car’s engine. The Mill has created The Mill BLACKBIRD, the first fully adjustable car rig that creates photoreal CG cars – it’s a car rig that can be shot at any time, in any location, without the need to rely on a physical car. Created in collaboration with JemFX, Performance Filmworks and Keslow, Mill Blackbird inspires and expands creative opportunities, offering a truly flexible production tool without sacrificing any quality or direction.
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 25, 2016 at 3:35:00 PM CEST
Harald Vilimsky zum Brexit
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 25, 2016 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
Parliament-Funkadelic Founding Member Bernie Worrell Has Died
Bernie Worrell, the man behind the keyboard and one of the founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, died Friday at the age of 72 after a battle with lung cancer.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on June 25, 2016 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
A Bug in Chrome Makes It Easy to Pirate Movies
For years Hollywood has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them. For just as long, hackers have found ways to bypass these protections. Now two security researchers have found a new way, using a vulnerability in the system Google uses to stream media through its Chrome browser. They say people could exploit the flaw to save illegal copies of movies they stream on Chrome using sites like Netflix or Amazon Prime.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on June 25, 2016 at 11:33:00 AM CEST
Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid!
Finding an ATM Skimmer on vacation at the Samsung Cash Machine outside St. Steven's cathedral in Vienna, Austria. While on vacation with my family in Vienna, Austria, I went to grab some cash from an ATM. Being security paranoid, I repeated my typical habit of checking the card reader with my hand as I have 100's of times... today's the day when my security awareness paid off! Check out my discovery of a custom made card skimmer that perfectly matches up to this ATM machine!
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 25, 2016 at 11:30:00 AM CEST
Donald Trump’s Ridiculous Brexit Tweet Is Getting Some Amazing Replies
After the surprising results of the ‘Brexit’ results out of the U.K., a very not surprising thing occurred on Twitter: Donald Trump posted something ridiculous.
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 23, 2016 at 11:27:00 PM CEST
Here is how much money the senators who voted against gun reform received from the NRA.
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Topic: logisch - on June 23, 2016 at 11:26:00 PM CEST
Life as a Verb: Applying Buckminster Fuller to the 21st Century
IF ONE BELIEVES the story, at the peak of his fame, Buckminster Fuller wore three wristwatches — one set for his current location, one for his previous one, and one for his next one. Jonathon Keats’s new book You Belong to the Universe appropriately situates the designer and autodidact in the present, past, and future — not just Fuller’s, but ours too. In fact, Keats’s central argument is that today’s would-be “world changers” can extract inspiration and even concrete examples from Fuller’s 20th-century life and apply them to 21st-century design futures.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 23, 2016 at 11:23:00 PM CEST
The Nintendo 64 turns 20 today
It was on June 23, 1996 that the Nintendo 64 made its debut — in Japan, that is. We wouldn’t see it on this side of the Pacific for another three months. But today is its proper birthday, and 20 years is a significant enough anniversary that we should probably just take a moment to remember just how awesome this console was — and is.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 23, 2016 at 11:21:00 PM CEST
Why would you want a 1,000 core processor?
Are you familiar with the highly influential piece for programmers by Herb Sutter called "The Free Lunch Is Over"? He wrote it in 2004, just when CPU clock speeds were at a zenith. Back in those days, software developers could count on Moore's Law double the speed of their software every couple years. They could write something, wait a little while, and all of a sudden it was blazing fast. But Herb Sutter correctly predicted the end of this performance gain. The technical definition of Moore's Law continued — transistor counts kept doubling — but it has become more and more difficult to translate those transistors into actually faster apps.
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Topic: food - on June 23, 2016 at 10:45:00 AM CEST
The price of LEDs is falling so fast it’s profitable to farm in a New Jersey nightclub
US agriculture has reached a tipping point: It’s now possible to buy greens grown indoors for the same price as those farmed in California fields thanks to the falling price of LEDs. New Jersey-based AeroFarms is shipping arugula, kale, and spinach from a farm inside a former Newark nightclub to grocery shelves around New York City. Local ShopRites sell five ounces of AeroFarms’ greens for $3.99, the same price as EarthBound, an organic grower in California.
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