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27 November, 2014

Movie special effects: Amazing before and after shots

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/movies/movie-special-effects-amazing-before-and-after-shots/story-fni0bom2-1227136595888?nk=c6ecb4f819ac63a5e70f1f4dd8e9ce42

Wasting Time on the Internet' Is Now an Actual College Class

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wasting-time-on-the-internet-is-now-an-actual-college-class?utm_source=Outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=motherboardrss

Jackie Chan Blu-ray (or any movie) disc boosts solar panel efficiency by a massive 22%

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/194938-jackie-chan-blu-ray-disc-boosts-solar-panel-efficiency-by-a-massive-22

Bitcoin, virtual money: User's identity can be revealed much easier than thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141125074749.htm

How to spot a hacker in Counter-Strike Hacking is rife in CS:GO and even pro players are being banned, so how do we stop it?

http://www.redbull.com/en/esports/stories/1331691928609/counter-strike-hacker-spotting-guide

The International Space Station’s 3-D printer has manufactured the first 3-D printed object in space, paving the way to future long-term space expeditions.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/open-for-business-3-d-printer-creates-first-object-in-space-on-international-space-station/index.html#.VHZiEFWUcnq

22 November, 2014

How Facebook’s Programming Tools Are Remaking Wikipedia and Box. This creation is called HHVM. Basically, it’s a way of more efficiently running the PHP programming language, the language that helps drive all the stuff you do on Facebook each day

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/facebooks-programming-tools-remaking-wikipedia-baidu-box

Showing a rather shocking disregard for the long-term safety of human civilization, Microsoft has become one of the first companies to deploy autonomous robot security guards. Dubbed the K5, Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus was being policed last week by five of these roughly human-sized 300-pound (136 kg) robots

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/194338-here-come-the-autonomous-robot-security-guards-what-could-possibly-go-wrong

Algorithms Are Great and All, But They Can Also Ruin Lives

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/algorithms-great-can-also-ruin-lives/

Breakthrough in image-recognition software identifies objects in photographs

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/breakthrough-in-imagerecognition-software-identifies-objects-in-photographs-20141118-11p0n9.html

Professional coders step in to teach school kids to program the future. www.codefuture.org

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/professional-coders-step-in-to-teach-school-kids-to-program-the-future-20141121-11rbvd.html