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21 March, 2015
On March 19, the second day of the Hewlett-Packard Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) sponsored Pwn2Own hacking challenge at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, B.C., security researchers were able to successfully exploit Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Apple Safari.
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Cybersafety,
Ethical,
ICT Career,
research,
Sustainability
Marketers—or anyone who’s inspired to snoop—simply insert a transparent 1×1 image into an email. When that email is opened, the image pings the server it originated from with information like the time, your location, and the device you’re using. It’s a read receipt on steroids that you never signed up for.
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/ugly-mail/
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Critical + Creative Thinking,
Cybersafety,
Ethical,
Privacy
The illusion is one of Apple’s latest innovations: the Taptic Engine. Relying on a technique pioneered in research labs 20 years ago, it uses an electromagnetic motor to trick your fingers into feeling things that aren’t actually there. The motor’s precisely tuned oscillation makes it feel like you’re depressing a mechanical button, when you’re really just mashing your finger against a stationary piece of glass.
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History,
Intellectual Property
20 March, 2015
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17 March, 2015
We launched it more than 20 years ago, using the venerable — but simple to master — PageMaker program, dreamed up by online design pioneer Paul Brainerd and later acquired by Adobe. Adobe beefed up PageMaker with many new and more sophisticated features, and renamed it InDesign.
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Graphic Design,
History,
Sustainability
16 March, 2015
WHEN THE US Embassy in Beijing started tweeting data from an air-quality monitor, no one could have anticipated its far-reaching consequences: It triggered profound change in China’s environmental policy, advanced air-quality science in some of the world’s most polluted cities, and prompted similar efforts in neighboring countries.
Yihao Zhang at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and a few pals who have created an algorithm that clones facial expressions and pastes them onto other faces. The work raises the prospect of accurately reproducing facial movements and expressions on avatars, cartoon characters and more or less any face.
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3D,
Asia Connection,
Graphic Design,
ICT Capability,
research
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