NASA names asteroid after female Saudi student – Gulf Business
Fatima Abdel-Moneim Al-Sheikh was recognised for her efforts in the field of botany
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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.
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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?”
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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.
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Pakistan enchanted by first robot waitresses – The Express Tribune
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.
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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.
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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…
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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/