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Jul21
by on July 21, 2015 at 12:05 pm
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There is no such thing as too much knowledge. If you would like to expand your horizons, but don’t have the time to read, Blinkist’s non-fiction book summaries are a speedy and convenient way of learning. The platform offers over one thousand carefully selected books, written by the brightest minds around — Horowitz, Cialdini, Hsieh, etc. In each case, the book is condensed into a 15-minute summary, focusing on the key points of the text. This streamlining means you can pick up the same information in a fraction of the reading time. Alternatively, you can listen to the summaries as…

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Watch: A rhino’s eye view of the fight against poaching

Jul21
by on July 21, 2015 at 11:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

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The video above this sentence is from a camera implant on a rhino in South Africa. It’s there to deter poachers by turning the endangered animals into their own surveillance system. Conservationists from British non-profit Protect developed the system which uses GPS tagging, heart rate monitors and the aforementioned embedded cameras. Rhinos are under constant threat from poachers who want to kill them for ivory. The Real-Time Anti-Poaching Device (RAPID) system can quickly alert their protectors to that danger and help them intervene. RAPID detects when an animals heart rate drops and activates the camera implant, while a collar around…

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5 roles every great designer must play

Jul21
by on July 21, 2015 at 11:23 am
Posted In: Around the Web, design, Design & Dev

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All the world’s a design studio, and all the designers merely players. They have their log-outs and their log-ins, and one designer in their time plays many parts. Designers need to do more than just design. In-house designers are becoming more and more prevalent, and they can no longer work in isolation. That means collaborating with departments a designer might not have worked with at an agency, such as marketing and business development. The more diverse the roles of your coworkers, the more diverse you yourself have to be. Photo credit: Ryan Ritchie. Creative Commons. That’s why we’re outlining the…

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Toshiba CEO and vice-chairman resign after falsely declaring $1.2 billion profits

Jul21
by on July 21, 2015 at 10:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Toshiba’s CEO Hisao Tanak is stepping down after an investigation unearthed that company executives were complicit in misreporting earnings of $1.2 billion (¥151.8 billion) over the past six years. The company’s vice-chairman Norio Sasaki and former president Atsutoshi Nishida have also resigned. Masashi Muromachi, Toshiba’s current chairman, will be taking over as an interim CEO. An independent panel hired by Toshiba implicated the company’s three most recent chief executives, saying each had an active role in inflating the company’s operating profits since 2008 The report states: The improper accounting procedures were continuously carried out as a de facto policy of the…

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Twitter killing your custom background says you’re dust in a galaxy of ads

Jul21
by on July 21, 2015 at 10:16 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion

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There’s another big expanse of screen real estate up for grabs on Twitter. For a long time, it was where you could put a custom wallpaper behind your profile. But now, the social network has killed that in favour of plain blue. Twitter killing custom profile backgrounds is a) getting read to plaster ads there b) saying users' individuality counts for squat. — Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) July 21, 2015 Does that matter? Surely it’s just trivial right? You could argue – and I’m sure Twitter would – that it’s simply about consistency. Facebook has always limited profile customisation, desperate to…

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