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There’s no describing these beautiful animated GIFs, you have to see them yourself

You wouldn’t necessarily equate animated GIFs with being beautiful but when we stumbled upon this stunning collection of images, created by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg, we just had to share them. The duo were inspired to create the cinemagraphs whilst they were covering Fashion Week in February. Taking still photos and then applying the motion-graphics through many hours of manual editing, Beck and Burg were able to breathe small bits of life into each still image....

There’s No Place Like Home Screen: Exploring the Philosophy of App Placement

So, you just picked up your new iOS device, be it an iPhone, an iPad or an iPod Touch. You’ve fired it up, activated it and are ready to explore. You hit the App Store and discover a ton of apps that you just have to download. You download 10, 20, 30 apps. But did you stop and consider that with all of the apps that you’ve downloaded – which screen do they belong on?...

There’s no workplace equity for women in STEM – and COVID-19 made it worse

There’s no workplace equity for women in STEM – and COVID-19 made it worse The slow pace of change Our analysis found that people with STEM qualifications work in a wide range of occupations and industries. On average, they earn more than those with non-STEM qualifications, and these incomes increase with qualification level. In 2016, 34% of employed STEM university graduates earned A$104,000 or above, compared with 24% of non-STEM university graduates....

There’s something fishy about Facebook’s pivot on facial recognition

Meta today announced updates to its facial recognition program that will have sweeping consequences for the Facebook platform — and not in a good way. Meta? It’s still Facebook to me and this move just proves that a dumpster fire by any other name would still smell as sickly. The company’s not stopping the use of facial recognition. Nor is it deleting facial recognition data for more than a billion users....

Thermal cameras tracked Hamburgers on bikes in 2020 — here’s what they found

Thermal cameras tracked Hamburgers on bikes in 2020 — here’s what they found ITS World Congress Hamburg and the BMVI are currently preparing to host the world’s largestITS World Congressin October 2021 with over 15,000 visitors expected. The city is positioning itself as a model and laboratory of intelligent transport and logistics solutions. In October the city successfully trialed itsautonomous HEAT minibuspassenger service ona one-kilometer section of test track in the HafenCity district....