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7 innovations that are crucial to living in today’s society

sudshr47 December 8, 2017

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It may not always be on the forefront of our minds, but everything on earth (that isn’t, ya know, trees and animals and stuff) has been inspired by the curiosity of humankind. Without certain scientific innovations — some dating back many centuries — our society would be vastly different. 

Innovation is a key component to businesses today as well, especially with the speed in which industries evolve. More often than not, discoveries from the past continue to shape the present as our society adapts to various technological advancements. Read more…

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It’s getting harder not to listen to Bitcoin skeptics

sudshr47 November 29, 2017

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Bitcoin enthusiasts rejoiced on Monday as 1 BTC traded at $10,000 for the first time.

The celebration was short lived, but not because it immediately crashed back to earth. Just one day later, Bitcoin hit $11,000. 

The meteoric rise in value of Bitcoin in 2017 has left skeptics flabbergasted—and warning that people buying in risk losing a healthy amount of money. At this point, it’s a little hard not to understand their concern. Bitcoin’s value has risen so quickly that it’s been drawing comparisons to other historic bubbles, such as the infamous Dutch tulip mania.

It’s easy to see why. In 2017 alone, Bitcoin is up a whopping 1,000 percent. To put that in perspective, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (the most widely followed stock index) is up 193 percent… since 1997. That’s 20 years of investment in what is generally considered to be the best long-term investment, and it doesn’t even come close to what Bitcoin has done this year.  Read more…

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Apple just patented a foldable smartphone

sudshr47 November 27, 2017

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If the tech for the iPhone X’s facial recognition is still a bit too advanced for you to grasp, we’ve got bad news: Apple’s already brainstorming The Next Big Thing.

On Monday Fast Company reported that Apple received a patent for a foldable smartphone. The patent, which was filed for on Sept. 22, 2016, outlines an electronic device with “a flexible display” and the capacity to fold. 

Though the concept might sound pretty advanced, it’s certainly not the first time it’s been discussed.

In September — just hours before Apple’s iPhone 8 launch event — Samsung announced plans to drop a foldable smartphone in 2018. The proposed sketches looked pretty wild, but the feat is so daring that production plans have already been pushed back to 2019. ZTE also announced foldable smartphones in October, though it’s presenting a far less impressive dual-screen device. Read more…

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You can now add way older photos to your Instagram story

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

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At long last, the 24-hour limit is no more. You can now upload photos to your Instagram Story that are up to a week old. 

When uploading a story, you can now swipe up on the screen and be shown a reel of all the photos you’ve taken in the past week (as opposed to those taken in the past 24 hours). 

Even after its public release, this feature may not change much about the Stories experience. As one user noted, it has always been easy to post older photos as Stories by screenshotting or editing them. 

The trick is to just slightly edit a photo and it becomes “new” and you can post

— Greg Baroth (@gbaroth) September 8, 2017 Read more…

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Twitter’s 280 character limit is exactly what tweets didn’t need

sudshr47 November 7, 2017

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I cannot put it in 280 characters more plainly than that.

Giving every single Twitter user 280 characters to blather on is a big mistake, and like many, I blame millennials for this change.

Twitter was created by Gen X-er Jack Dorsey, who’s actually about to celebrate his 41st birthday. As the children of Baby Boomers, Generation X-ers typically still appreciate something about scarcity and compromise. Dorsey exemplified this by building Twitter on the incredibly limited backbone of SMS and figured out how to make it work within the 160-character limit, which is how we ended up with that precious 140 characters. Then Twitter turned each tweet into a virtual Matryoshka doll, nesting more and more stuff — photos, Twitter handles, and video — inside the same 140-character space. It was quite a trick. Read more…

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