photo credit: Seth_Wilson Study via photopin (license) I came across this article: http://nybookeditors.com/2016/02/instantly-improve-your-writing-with-these-11-editing-tools/ Any tool which boosts my scrabbly prose is worth having. Not the least in that some of these tools are free. I’m going to test out each of the free ones (because I am a cheapskate). You can review how you feel […]
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“Drawing on your phone or computer can be slow and difficult — so we created AutoDraw, a new web-based tool that pairs machine learning with drawings created by talented artists to help you draw,” wrote Google Creative Lab’s “creative technologist,” Dan Motzenbecker.
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A team of Princeton and Stanford University researchers has fundamentally reinvented how ad-blocking works, in an attempt to put an end to the advertising versus ad-blocking arms race.
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Calligra Suite is a set of applications written to help you to accomplish your work.
A new bugfix update of Calligra, the 3.0.1 version, has been released.
Calligra includes efficient and capable office components:
Calligra offers cutting edge applications for artists to work on 2D drawings and illustrations:
We have released a bugfix update of Calligra: the 3.0.1 version.
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Google has agreed to be less controlling about what Android phone manufacturers can do in Russia, as the result of a settlement today with the country’s antimonopoly agency. In addition to paying a $7.
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BANGALORE, India — Nandini Balasubramanya’s office here on the southern edge of India’s technology capital does not look as if it would play a key role in the world’s most valuable start-up’s plans for global conquest. On many days, the tiny space has no electricity.
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No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem.
Books can do anything. As Franz Kafka once said, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” It was Kafka, wasn’t it? Google confirms this. But where did he say it? Google offers links to some quotation websites, but they’re generally unreliable.
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We are living in the age of the superstar firm. Companies like Samsung, Google, or BMW—the top players in their respective industries—are prospering. Yet economic growth remains sluggish in many parts of the world.
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We live in the age of fake news — both the really fake news that’s simply fake and the kind of news that some people like to call “fake” only because they don’t like hard facts.
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