Photo Series of the Day: To promote her newly launched photo restoration business, Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway colorized a few of history’s more iconic photos.
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“ We are a broadband service provider. Everything else—from voice to IPTV to storage-is just a feature that rides on this data service. ”
“Jihad Punk (January 4, 2012 at 5:43 pm)
cool pi, but lions shouldn’t be kept as pets. They belong in the wilderness.”
I invented the comment section. You know, obviously.
(Source: ttimeturner)
I only recently found out that some people don’t have floaters. I see these things all the time.
minha vida. o mundo com moscas volantes desde 1990.
(Source: 10uhclock)
Google Voice - When typing an SMS, the counter changes to “Really?” when your message reaches a certain lenght.
Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying
(…) no matter what you choose to do or not do, your life exists in the cloud, indexed by Google, in the background of a photo album on Facebook, and across thousands of spammy directories that somehow know where you live and where you went to high school. These little bits of information exist like digital detritus. With software like PittPatt that can glean vast amounts of cloud-based data when prompted with a single photo, your digital life is becoming inseparable from your analog one. You may be able to change your name or scrub your social networking profiles to throw off the trail of digital footprints you’ve inadvertently scattered across the Internet, but you can’t change your face. And the cloud never forgets a face.
The Internet never forgets a face. Read more at The Atlantic
“ Given that the company already gets about 250 million photos uploaded every day, Schroepfer isn’t too worried about the storage needs of the company. What he is concerned about is how much time it takes to access the exponentially large amount of data sets and then scroll through it. Facebook is making seven years worth of data available as part of its Timeline launch — a gigantic amount of information that it is not revealing — for now. ”
Facebook gets a big infrastructure boost for Timeline — Cloud Computing News
This is what’s interesting to me. By subverting the emphasis on recency to shine a light on history, it means their infrastructure needs to change. Hope there’s more around this.
(via joshuanguyen)
