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03 July, 2014
A Chinese company has become the first to construct multiple buildings using 3D printers that extrude recycled building materials at breakneck speed. Using four huge 3D printers, Yingchuang New Materials Inc. was able to print the shells of 10 one-room structures in 24 hours and at a cost of only about $5,000 per building. The buildings had to harden at the factory and then be transported and assembled on site.
Tiffany Rad is turning software industry gender stereotypes on their head. Rad is a white hat, a hacker who specialises in looking for security holes so that they can be fixed. The attorney turned her computer-hacking hobby into a career in 2008, when she submitted a research proposal to an underground security conference in New York. Rad's talk there propelled her into the industry, and she is now manager of threat research for ThreatGrid, a specialist in malicious software analysis that Cisco Systems bought in May.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
ICT Capability,
ICT Career,
research,
Women in IT
02 July, 2014
The outrage sparked by a Facebook experiment on almost 700,000 users' emotions continues to burn, causing the research team to mount a public defence. For a week in January 2012, researchers tweaked users' news feeds to expose them to more positive or negative posts. They found a corresponding impact on what the affected users shared. In the subsequent paper they declared this proof of online emotional contagion. The publication of the report has prompted thousands of protest posts on social media, as well as concerns from leading academics and psychologists who have raised concerns about the ethics involved.
01 July, 2014
To show how different countries have very different standards when it comes to beauty, US journalist Esther Honig had her face digitally altered by people in 26 countries - and the results are stunningly disparate. For the project, named "Before & After", Honig used freelancing platforms such as Fiverr, to contract about 40 photoshop artists from countries such as Ukraine, Kenya and Serbia.
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