24 Nov Debunked: 10 Common Myths About Our Visual Brains

We debunk 10 widely believed statements about visual perception and how we use our brains, such as the myth that we only use 10% of our brains.

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24 Nov StratoEnergetics introduces new Slaughterbot autonomous weapon

Looking like an iPhone rollout or creepy TED Talk, this sci-fi PSA from the group Stop Autonomous Weapons looks at a possible near future of autonomous drones trained to kill a specific human targe…

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20 Nov Open Source Software enables Digital Farming Solutions – Bayer – Crop Science

Digital Farming solutions developed by Bayer support agriculture decision-makers using a variety of geospatial data, multispectral imagery from Sentinel and Landsat missions, imagery acquired from Drones, and field data. Such data is managed, analyzed and disseminated from the cloud using Open Source software such as, among others, GeoServer.

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17 Nov 21 Creative Flowchart Examples for Making Important Life Decisions

A list of flowchart infographic examples, along with a list of tips of how to design your own creative and easy-to-follow decision maps and flowcharts.

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17 Nov The perfect storm called artificial intelligence and geospatial big data

On April 20, 2010, when BP’s deep-water drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil giant claimed that the spill was just 1,000 barrels per day. A small non-profit in West Virginia, SkyTruth, studied the satellite observations of the oil slick, cataloged its computations, and concluded that the spill was at least 20 times bigger than what was being claimed. The report was swiftly picked up by the media, and lead the US government to straightaway increase the estimate to 5,000 barrels of oil per day.

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16 Nov 19-Year-Old Wanted To Cover Up Her Self-Harm Scars But All Tattoo Artists Refused To Help. Except One

Ink has allowed an Irish teen to recover from self-harm. Aoife Lovett (19) had been struggling with mental health throughout the years, and even though she got

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10 Nov How to Apply Gestalt Principles to Your Designs for Maximum Impact

A visual guide to Gestalt design principles for non-designers, with examples of how to apply similarity, proximity, closure, continuity, symmetry, figure and

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