The restaurant service went like this: sit down, ask for tapas, and you will get a plate. Then waiters bring tapas on a plate. You can pass or pick up an bite. When you have had enough, the waiter counts the sticks. That’s your bill.
… Read >Flaccid phone features foment ‘flagship fatigue’
From: Computerworld
Everybody panic!
Mary Meeker released her well-regarded Internet Trends Report this week. She said smartphone shipments grew by zero percent, the first time since smartphones existed that the market didnât grow.
And IDC says the smartphone market will remain sluggish into the foreseeable future.
Some smartphone hopefuls have
AI researchers developed a privacy-filter to fight facial recognition
From: The Next Web
A team of researchers from the University of Toronto have developed an algorithm that protects images from facial recognition AI. What it does: The researchers, Parham Aarabi and Avishek Bose, developed the AI to defend photos from facial recognition, but itâs not a shield â itâs … Read >
A Quick Note
These #smart palm trees can #charge your phone and provide free #WiFi
via @businessinsider @surface #smartcity #IoT #tech pic.twitter.com/FBC5lO2wcH
— InsightBrief (@InsightBrief) June 2, 2018
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Labor Unions Threaten a Las Vegas Strike That Might Cost Casinos Millions
Take the union numbers quoted in this article with a grain of salt, as their remarks may be inflated as a negotiating tactic. But there’s no doubt a labor strike could hurt Las Vegas resort groups.
-Sean O’Neill
In this May 22, 2018 photo, volunteer Jenifer Murias yells into a … Read >
A Quick Note
The sharing economy hardly puts a dent in the fact that most American road trips occur with owned cars. But look out for brands adapting to electric vehicles before driverless cars change things completely https://t.co/yW4BBLiZSe pic.twitter.com/r35um3EdQn
— Skift (@skift) May 27, 2018
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Nordic architecture in Tromsö, Norway
A library in southern France
In a tiny village, at the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains, a library awaits readers. It is next to farm land, away from roads. Only hikers and mountainbikers are able to find it.
… Read >Change of seasons
This color is wonderful, and even more impressive when the flowers have fallen to the ground from the bushes.
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