Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has responded forcefully after incidents in which employees crossed out “Black Lives Matter” and wrote “All Lives Matter” on the walls of the company’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus.
Facebook, whose staff is 2% black, is investigating the racially charged incidents in which the movement’s slogan was defaced.
The experimental New York-based fashion label ThreeASFOUR—said to be a favorite of Björk and Yoko Ono—unveiled two sculptural 3-D printed dresses last week. The dresses were made in collaboration with New York designer Travis Fitch and the 3-D printing company Stratasys, the dresses are part of the label’s 2016 Biomimicry collection, which draws inspiration from both plant geometry and animal anatomy. For example, the Harmonograph dress is based on the Fibonacci sequence, the mathematical formula that defines so many patterns and forms in the natural world.
Alexa Adams and Flora Gill, the designers from the New York-based label Ohne Titel, are known for their ultra-modern knitwear. For their latest collection, consist of a combination of materials and fabrication techniques, including weaving, knitting, and a 3-D polymer, to create a lovely new type of textile that lies somewhere between lace and chain mail. Their collection illustrates how 3-D printing is coming of age in the fashion world, transforming from a novelty into a legitimate tool for creating new textures, fabrics, and more.
Fashion, As Designed By Your Brainwaves
As part of VFiles’ show at New York Fashion Week, New York-based designer Nayana Malhotra debuted her project Neurocouture, which involved wrapping models in projection-mapped pieces that were linked to consumer-grade EEG devices. A nearby computer was programmed to detect certain brainwave patterns, then produce animated GIFs that expressed corresponding emotions.
Wearable Bioluminescence
Chromat’s glowing Lumina collection taken cues from the conceptual artist Robert Irwin and the nature of bioluminescence, designer Becca McCharen used Intel’s Curie module (a button-sized wearable) and StretchSense’s flexible sensors to create clothing that glows in response to movement.
Researchers from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative has created a 3D bioprinter that is precise enough to actually manufacture replacement tissue capable of being used in trBioprinters work the same way that conventional 3D printers do, using additive manufacturing to build complex structures layer by layer. Instead of using plastics, resins, and metals, bioprinters use special bio-materials that closely approximate functional, living tissue
Sony has announced a series of ‘smart personal assistants’ including a bluetooth earpiece similar to the AI version worn in the hit film Her. The Xperia Ear Wireless earpiece can update you with any missed calls or messages as soon as you slot it into your ear.
It reads users information such as your schedule, weather and the latest news to keep you up-to-date on the go
Dr. Carla D. Hayden is CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland, a position she has held since 1993. Dr. Hayden was nominated by President Obama to be a member of the National Museum and Library Services Board in January 2010 and was confirmed by the Senate in June 2010. Prior to joining the Pratt Library, Dr. Hayden was Deputy Commissioner and Chief Librarian of the Chicago Public Library from 1991 to 1993. She was an Assistant Professor for Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh from 1987 to 1991 and Library Services Coordinator for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago from 1982 to 1987.Dr. Carla D. Hayden’s career began as a Library Associate and Children’s Librarian from 1973 to 1979 with the Chicago Public Library and the Young Adult Services Coordinator from 1979 to 1982. Dr. Hayden was President of the American Library Association from 2003 to 2004. In 1995, she was the first African American to receive Library Journal’s Librarian of the Year Award in recognition of her outreach services at the Pratt Library, which included an afterschool center for Baltimore teens offering homework assistance and college and career counseling. Dr. Hayden received a B.A. from Roosevelt University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago.
If confirmed, Dr. Hayden would be the first woman and the first African American to hold the position at the Library of Congress
The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced 30 finalists for the 2016 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The National Medal is the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries for service to the community. For 22 years, the award has celebrated institutions that demonstrate extraordinary and innovative approaches to public service and are making a difference for individuals, families, and communities
The Finalist 2016
The National Medal winners will be named later this spring, and representatives from winning institutions will travel to Washington, D.C., to be honored in a White House ceremony
IOFIT, is technically considered a wearable device, this smart shoe is in a category of its own. Developed by Salted Venture, a startup supported by Samsung Electronics, IOFIT is a solution that utilizes a combination of pressure sensors and a coaching app to improve a user’s balance and body posture to enhance one’s fitness routine or golf swing. The coaching and analysis software integrated with IOFIT allows coaches (or trainers and the like) to leave feedback for the user based on their performances and compare saved videos
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Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), and colleagues explain that current 3D printers are unable to produce human tissues and organs that are strong enough to be transplanted in the body or that can survive following transplantation. However, the team believes that their ITOP technology, however, could help overcome such problems.
The 3D prints also consist of micro-channels, which act as a sponge to soak to up the body’s nutrients and oxygen after transplantation. This helps the structures survive as they develop a blood vessel system, which they need in order to function in the human body.
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In their study, Dr. Atala and colleagues used the ITOP system to build baby-sized human ear structures – around 1.5 in – and implanted them beneath the skin of mice.
Their results indicated that the bio-ink combination we used, combined with the micro-channels, provides the right environment to keep the cells alive and to support cell and tissue growth
According to research, women write better code than men on GitHub, or at the very least, their contributions are accepted more often by fellow coders. But this holds true when their gender is not known; once it’s made apparent that a woman is behind the syntax, all bets are off.
Google has a pair of new security features that will warn users when they should be cautious about revealing sensitive information over email.
Users will be shown a small red unlocked padlock icon in the upper right-hand corner of a message to let them know that someone they’re sending messages to or receiving email from doesn’t support TLS encryption that would keep information from prying eyes in transit. The majority of email that users see on a regular basis likely won’t contain one of these warnings, as most major email providers like Microsoft and Yahoo already support TLS encryption.
Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper made it clear that the internet of things – devices like thermostats, cameras and other appliances that are increasingly connected to the internet – are providing ample opportunity for intelligence agencies to spy on targets, and possibly the masses. Samsung sparked controversy last year after announcing a television that would listen to everything said in the room it’s in and in the fine print literally warned people not to talk about sensitive information in front of it.
Other Gadgets are spying as well.
Other television models, Xbox Kinect, Amazon Echo and GM’s OnStar program that tracks car owners’ driving patterns. Even a new Barbie has the ability to spy on you – it listens to Barbie owners to respond but also sends what it hears back to the mothership at Mattel. Researchers at Princeton University have found that, Google’s parent company, Alphabet popular Nest thermostat was leaking the zip codes of its users over the internet. This data was transmitted unencrypted, or in the clear, meaning that anyone sniffing traffic could have intercepted it, according to the researchers. Sharx security camera transmits video feeds in the clear, allowing pretty much anyone with access to the owner’s network to intercept and watch them over the internet.
Peter Blackstock at Grove Atlantic bought North American rights to The Accusation, a short story collection by a North Korean writer published after the work was smuggled out of the country. The author’s pseudonym name is Bandi. The book was initially published by the South Korean house Chogabje in 2014. Barbara Zitwer, who has an eponymous agency, is handling rights on behalf of Chogabje. In addition to the U.S. sale, the book has been acquired in the U.K. (where Serpent’s Tail/Profile nabbed U.K. and Commonwealth rights); France (Éditions Philippe Picquier); and Spain (Libros del Asteroide). Zitwer also confirmed that offers on the book were in from a number of other territories, including the Netherlands and Germany. The collection hosts a range of characters as it paints a portrait of daily life under a dictatorship. Zitwer added that the book is the first known work of fiction by a North Korean to make it out of the closed country
Lewis Latimer (1848 – 1928)
What He Invented: The Carbon Filament For The Light Bulb. In 1876, he worked with Alexander Graham Bell to draft the drawings required for the patent of Bell’s telephone.
Born: April 24, 1919; place: Centralia, Illinois
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AB (1938) University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; AM (1939) University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Ph.D. (1941) Statistics, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
thesis: Some Properties of Markoff Chains; Advisor: Joseph L. Doob
: Professor Emeritas of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley
Research Interests: Mathematics, David Blackwell is, to mathematicians, the most famous, perhaps greatest, African American Mathematician. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in 1938, Master of Arts in Mathematics in 1939, and his Ph.D. in 1941 (at the age of 22), all from the University of Illinois. He is the seventh African American to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics. He is the first and only African American to be any one of: a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a President of the American Statistical Society, and a Vice President of the America Mathematics Society.
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Born: November 27, 1923 Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
A.B. Mathematics (1940) Uiversity of Chicago; M.s. Mathematics (1941).
Ph.D. Mathematics (1942) University of Chicago
thesis: Multiple Integral Problems in Parametric Form in the Calculus of Variations; Advisor: Magnus Hestenes
additional degrees: Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering (1957) New York University; Masters of Mechanical Engineering (1960) New York University
Research Interests: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Nuclear Engineering
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Obtained a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee, a masters degree in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford. He is one of the most prominent black inventors in the field of computers.
Dr. Mark Dean started working at IBM in 1980 and was instrumental in the invention of the Personal Computer (PC). He holds three of IBM’s original nine PC patents and currently holds more than 20 total patents. The famous African-American inventor never thought the work he was doing would end up being so useful to the world, but he has helped IBM make instrumental changes in areas ranging from the research and application of systems technology circuits to operating environments. He was chief engineer of the 12-person team that designed the original IBM PC in the early ’80s, earning him three of the nine original patents for that device. One of his most recent computer inventions occurred while leading the team that produced the 1-Gigahertz chip, which contains one million transistors and has nearly limitless potential
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The algorithm that will re-order your timeline is based on the one that ranks tweets for the “while you were away” feature that Twitter introduced a year ago. When you Spend an entire day away from Twitter, and open the app again, you’ll see highlights from the day. If you open it up a few times a day, you’ll see a handful of “while you were away”-style sections breaking up the chronological tweets. And whenever you pull down to refresh your stream, it’s back to the regular, reverse-chronological timeline. the new timeline will also show you related posts for popular tweets. You will be allowed to opt out of the new timeline. Two users who have been testing the new timeline for a few months did not particularly liked it. One user said, “It tears conversations apart, and it’s really confusing when some people have been live-tweeting an event and those things get scattered all across my timeline. It makes it extremely hard to follow events, and destroys one of the core values of Twitter, in my opinion.”Analyst Ben Thompson wrote recently that an algorithmic timeline has been one of Facebook’s core advantages over Twitter, allowing it continue to grow rapidly as Twitter’s growth slowed.
Google’s Mountain View headquarters in California have recently begun talks with camera manufacturers to get 360-degree live streaming video on YouTube. To enable live streaming of 360-degree video, it is expected that YouTube will have developed a specification that enables video stitching to be processed in real-time. It would make sense for the company to limit its support to just a few cameras on the market, as tens or hundreds of 360-degree live camera configurations could prove a very difficult task for developing a unified specification to accommodate live stitching. To work around these complexities, YouTube could have live stitching performed on the actual cameras themselves with initial support for just a few devices, including those mentioned above. The service supports 360-degree videos at 24fps, 25fps, 30fps, 48fps, 50fps and 60fps. There is also a metadata requirement for 360-degree playback to be enabled, and YouTube has created a “360 Video Metadata” app for Windows and Mac that will do this for you automatically. Metadata can also be added manually using a “Spatial Media Metadata Injector” Python 2.7 script.
This feature was in beta testing for a while, but now it’s being rolled out for everyone in the United States. There’s a huge catch, though: to take advantage of the live streaming feature, users must own an iPhone.
Facebook’s statement.
For those who are interested, the feature is available via a redesigned Facebook status menu. Just tap on “Live Video” to enable the feature and watch as the iPhone’s front camera kicks into full gear. To allow the whole world to see your live feed, click on the option that says “Go Live”.
The broadcaster will have a system that allows him or her to see the number of people who are watching, along with their names and comments. When the broadcast is over, users should be happy to know that it is automatically saved to their Timeline by default.
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