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Adobe Flash Fans Want a Chance to Fix Its One Million Bugs – Gizmodo

Adobe Flash Fans Want a Chance to Fix Its One Million Bugs Under an Open Source License

While Adobe is finally mercy killing Flash, its multimedia software that helped power countless web applications like games and videos faced but widespread criticism for its rapid decline in usefulness and growing number of security vulnerabilities, some fans want to keep it alive as an open-source project for the future.

Read Full Article At: gizmodo.com/adobe-flash-fans-want-a-chance-to-fix-its-one-million-b-1797284544

Making A Day in PowerPoint – Zaafirah WMD

Making A Day in PowerPoint | Zaafirah WMD

I was fiddling about on Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 when I realized I had never used the “Insert” menu option for videos before. The laptop I had been using had no video editing software on it (not even Microsoft’s Windows Movie Maker) and I wondered, “would it possible to edit several video clips, add animations and effects then save the final product as a completed video?”

Read Full Article At: www.zaafirah.com.ng/making-a-day-in-powerpoint/

Winners: BigPicture Photography Competition – The Atlantic

Winners of the BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition

Some of the victors and finalists in the fourth annual BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition, put on by the California Academy of Sciences and bioGraphic.

Read Full Article At: www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/06/winners-of-the-bigpicture-natural-world-photography-competition/531825/

Pakistan enchanted by first robot waitresses – The Express Tribune

Pakistan’s first robot waitresses are serving up smiles for customers at an upscale pizza restaurant in the ancient city of Multan, better known for its centuries-old Sufi shrines, mango orchards and handicrafts.

Read Full Article At: tribune.com.pk/story/1453214/pakistan-enchanted-first-robot-waitresses/

The Forgotten African Samurai – Ancient Origins

The Amazing Story of Yasuke: The Forgotten African Samurai

Samurai are among the most enduring symbols of Japanese cultural heritage, thus unsurprisingly, most samurai were Japanese. There are, however, examples of non-Japanese who became samurai as well.

Read Full Article At: www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/amazing-story-yasuke-forgotten-african-samurai-007554

Charge battery in 10 min? NTU Don’s chip offers hope – Straits Times

Charge battery in 10 min? NTU don’s chip offers hope

A chip the size of a fingernail and developed in Singapore could offer an answer to that common gripe of smartphone users – having to wait hours to get a full charge…

Read Full Article At: www.straitstimes.com/singapore/charge-battery-in-10-min-ntu-dons-chip-offers-hope

Researchers make smooth artificial video of Obama – Engadget

Researchers make a surprisingly smooth artificial video of Obama

A neural network grafts audio-synced mouths onto existing videos for a pretty natural-looking result.

Read Full Article At: www.engadget.com/2017/07/11/researchers-surprisingly-smooth-artificial-video-obama/

Alphabet That Will Save a People From Disappearing – The Atlantic

The Alphabet That Will Save a People From Disappearing

Read Full Article At: www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/the-alphabet-that-will-save-a-people-from-disappearing/506987/

As kids, two Guinean brothers invented a new script for their native language. Now they’re trying to get it on every smartphone.