I've read that Aluminum is used in medicine as a catalyst, in toothpast as an abrasive, its in your dental cement, used as food additives, in your cooking utensils, used in vaccines as an adjuvant, etc. Some say Aluminum is linked to Alzheimer's, types of cancer, and now even autism. Could modern life in the west cause toxic levels of aluminum in our bodies? Sodium-rich water can supposedly detox your body from aluminum, personally I drink water with a very high Sodium content, unfortunaltly some of the brands contain a lot of fluoride - you just can't win :) ...
According to Geekbench there is only about a 50% performance gain with Intel i7 CPUs since MacBook Pro Retinas from 2012, am I the only one that is surprised about this - Moore's Law and all? https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?q=macbook+pro
I've been kind of negative to VR until I worked on the Microsoft HoloLens for some clients, and now I'm convinced that Mixed Reality(MR) is the way of the future and not VR. Sure, the current HoloLens has some disadvantages like a small field-of-view and a high price tag, but I'm sure that these things will be improved in future editions. This video shows someone playing Portal using the HoloLens, which also shows off its spatial awareness capabilities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-_4yIE6Cs
Very cool with small code pieces that does a lot. I was a big fan of the Amiga Boot sector intro's back in the 80-90s where the programmers had to make entertaining pieces of digital art where compiled code, music, and graphics all had to fit inside 1 KB boot sector of a 3.5" floppy disks. Here are some examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPTkTobvsaw&list=PLDAE2D6D92... . Thanks for sharing! :)
Remember that from when I was a teen, the first crack took months after the initial release and came on like 20 disks, while the retail game was on 10 disks. Kevin R. Kachikian is the name on the patent, currently he is CTO at Amuse Inc. according to his LinkedIn page - must be a very smart guy.
About two years ago I overheard some preteen kids talking about them leaving Facebook when their parents joined and added them as friends. I'm guessing they don't want their parents too much involved in their social life.
I suspect it uses DBPedia too. Me like :) This could really be something useful, personally Wolfram Alpha is way too noisy information-wise for me to use.
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I actually lauched a WebCite kind of service back called Svonk back in 2009, unfortunately it got VERY little usage - like just a couple of hundred hits a month, and it got no external promotion. Here is a tutorial video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9b2Xgi-xLM and the old press release if anyone is interested http://www.prweb.com/releases/meronymy/svonk/prweb2900644.ht... It had a RESTful interface and everything. I guess could re-launch it as I still have the source code, if there's an interest for it that is.