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twitter.com 3y ago

AI stock photo project offers unlimited use of Disney IP

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www.webworm.co 4y ago

Never Engage with Toddlers Online

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www.newsroom.co.nz 5y ago

New Zealand's second outbreak and the use of game changing genome sequencing

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webworm.substack.com 6y ago

Influencer culture should be burnt to the ground

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twitter.com 6y ago

Coronavirus – things we must do before we open up America

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www.stuff.co.nz 6y ago

Worker fired for declining a face scan awarded $23,200NZD

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Live stream of Christchurch attack runs on social media and news sites

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channel9.msdn.com 11y ago

Microsoft video demonstrating how to port Android apps to Windows 10

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www.pcworld.com 11y ago

In New zealand, a legal battle looms over geoblocking and streaming TV

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www.nzherald.co.nz 11y ago

Lawyered up New Zealand media companies seek to strengthen geo-blocking

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betanews.com 12y ago

Surface Blades – true innovation from Microsoft

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spectrum.ieee.org 12y ago

The Augmented Reality America’s Cup

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www.bloomberg.com 13y ago

How Larry Ellison Is Destroying the America’s Cup

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www.nbr.co.nz 13y ago

Ex-InternetNZ boss Vikram Kumar is the new CEO of Mega

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www.stuff.co.nz 13y ago

Kim Dotcom's MegaBox set to target Google, Yahoo

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thenextweb.com 13y ago

Kim Dotcom on his future plans for Mega and Megabox

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www.suntimes.com 13y ago

Microsoft Surface RT a great yin to iPad’s yang

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news.cnet.com 13y ago

Steven Sinofsky: Microsoft's controversial Mr. Windows 8

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www.theverge.com 14y ago

Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' schemes mutate into an online monster

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www.3news.co.nz 14y ago

Kim Dotcom’s first TV interview: ‘I’m no piracy king’

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www.liamrosen.com 15y ago

An excellent beginner's guide to health and fitness

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scobleizer.com 16y ago

Why Mark Zuckerberg should have a Carol Bartz moment

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www.viperchill.com 16y ago

Blogging: helping people make money is what makes money

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www.stuff.co.nz 16y ago

Kiwi entrepreneurs announce international cable for New Zealand and Australia

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sciblogs.co.nz 16y ago

The world still needs Wikileaks

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I wouldn't say so. The 'Learning by mistakes' step in the demo shows that the AI can work through these issues, presumably this can be done more efficiently than a human.

One could argue the accessibility team wasn't doing a very good job if Mastodon have done it better without a dedicated team.

An application can and should have good accessibility by default without a dedicated team

Apple.com Is Down 4 years ago

There's an error showing on the page [an error occurred while processing this directive] which I'm pretty sure I've seen before with WordPress but I'm guessing it's not using that.

But now I'm curious does anyone know what stack or cms they're using? All built and managed in house?

Interestingly chrome on my android prompted me to view the page with 'simplified mode'. Never seen that feature prompted before

3 hours down so far and no notification on the login page, no explanation in the status to say they have diagnosed the issue and no eta for a fix is very very poor for a service of this type. Particularly annoying as I have an invoice to create.

Fascinating data, the US generally showing a less than 50% change while other countries with national lock downs are >90%.

It'd be very interesting to see this data overlayed against cases of covid, you maysee them both follow a similar downward trend with a week or two delay. Possibly also determine what change in mobility is required to prevent exponential growth

I get this, but often it results in 10+ messages back and forward when really what I want is one nice succinct email with only what's important and no pressure for me drop everything and reply immediately.

I haven't looked, but is it possible to change your online status on a room by room basis?

The richter scale in general is not a good indicator of the destructiveness of an earthquake. You need to consider the location of the epicenter and the depth of the quake before coming to any sort of conclusion.

I experienced this first hand here in Christchurch, NZ. We had a 7.1M quake and then a 6.3M aftershock 6 months later. Despite being almost an entire magnitude smaller the 6.3M aftershock was 10x more destructive. This was primarily because the epicenter of the 6.3M quake was 40km closer to the city and some unusually high verticle accelerations caused by the strike slip motion of the fault and the local geography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canterbury_earthquake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake

The Mercalli Intensity Scale was developed to give a better indicator of the actual effect to people on the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercalli_intensity_scale

Agreed. Earthquakes are extremly unpredictable, the best we have is the USGS models and even then they provide very little information.

In Christchurch, New Zealand the M6.3 aftershock in February 2011 was far more destructive than the initial M7.2 event that occured 5 months earlier. This was because the epicenter of the February aftershock was significantly closer to the city and populated areas.

Looking at the Nepal aftershock sequence map [1] it is a concern that many of the aftershocks are located closer to the populated areas. I really hope that Nepal has had the worst of it but it would be a mistake to rule out the possibility of another major event.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/visuals/graphics/la-fg-g-nepal-map-qu...

Facebook has a simple but clever way of tracking who is engaged with their video advertisements. Video ads auto play in the background without audio, the user has to click on the video to get audio. Presumably they're then able to track engagement by the number of users who specifically choose to watch the video with audio..

People spend hundreds of dollars on DVDs and Books that they only use one time, apps probably fall in a similar category for a lot of consumers.

There's an argument that Nokia wouldn't have been stable now if Elop never took the job. It would have failed in Finland instead of now potentially failing in Redmond.

The problem with convert to cloud is that it would require every Xbox to go online in order to check with the mothership before running the game, even from a disk. Otherwise you'd be able to share the disk with offline users who could continue using the physical copy.

They had two choices:

Require an internet connection before running a game. (the 24 hour check)

or

The disk must be present at all times.