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Including adjusting many hidden settings.

Pretty uncanny A.I. Experiment with Google, where you “draw” an object and the system works out what is is supposed to represent.

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Doc Searls has published a nice philosophical piece contemplating how to approach the impact of the internet on society and the world.

Interesting attempt at making addressing / place makers easier to communicate by allocating three words to a 3 x 3 metre square location on the globe.

A practical ethics blog published by the University of Oxford has provided a useful piece by James Williams exploring the “ethical” side of ad blocking technology.

Melbourne University’s new campaign “Collision” is a play to demonstrate ideas that can only be developed at a university — where different fields of study have the opportunity to discover from each other. Not sure about the longer-form exemplars — they’re quite long and seem a bit underproduced.

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Somehow we ended up with the task of loading a bunch on files onto USB sticks for a conference. Lifehacker has a reasonable suggestion for automating this process.

A Dutch company, CloudCutout is commercialising a PhD student’s research into a neural network that has been trained to cut out photo subjects shot against a green screen or infinity white background. Looks promising if it works.

Stumbled across this site by Microsoft, which focuses on stories around its brand. Might provide some ideas for us?