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| Facebook Facelift Craze Makes for Pricey Profile Pictures | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 11:06 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| That Facebook profile picture is crucial. At the very least, it's your image, a semi-public glimpse into who you are. It can also be a branding tool or a peek at what potential employers can expect. And of course, as the first Facebook iteration had it, the profile picture can serve as a subjective indicator: hot or not. For some (or arguably all) of the above reasons, keeping up appearances is a social media consideration.
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| Artistic Robot Decides What to Paint Next | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:58 PM | PSFK |
| Some people would say that painting takes years of practice and cannot be mastered by everyone. But if that's the case, how would those people explain a robot that learned to paint in a fraction of that time? e-David is an ordinary welding machine that has been equipped with sensors, a camera and a control computer — not to mention painting supplies that consist of five different brushes and a 24-color palette.
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| College Increases Security With Iris Scans | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:57 PM | Discovery News |
| The Minority Report's eye-scanning technology has become as everyday as attending classes at a small college in South Carolina. Administrators are testing out the use of iris scanners to control access to certain buildings. Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. has been evaluating the scanners for four months. Students and faculty have the irises in their eyes scanned by looking into a mirror that has a camera behind it.
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| The Next Level of 3D Printing: Liquid Metal | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 1:46 PM | Luisa Rollenhagen |
| The possibilities afforded by 3D printing keep expanding. From spider robots to prosthetics for ducks, the sky seems to be the limit. Researchers at North Carolina State University took the technology one step further with the discovery of a method for printing liquid metal (watch above).
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| 56 Unique Lorem Ipsum Generators | | Thursday, July 11, 2013 7:41 AM | Grace Smith |
| With roots in classical Latin literature, lorem ipsum has been the print industry's standard dummy text since the 16th century, and it was popularized in the 1960s. It has become the de facto placeholder text in web design, too (as gathering content from clients can often be a frustrating process), and is used in place of meaningful content during the design phase.
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