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Researchers Wirelessly Power 40 Phones From 5 Meters Away. Researchers from KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea have managed to extend the reach of wireless power transfer technology, bringing us closer to a world where phone and tablet chargers are as obsolete as MC Hammer’s parachute pants.

Researchers Wirelessly Power 40 Phones From 5 Meters Away

The new technology, called “Dipole Coil Resonant System (DCRS),” can charge up to 40 smartphones simultaneously from 5 meters away. QR Code Tutorial - Thonky.com. JavaScript Promises: There and back again. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourself for a pivotal moment in the history of web development… Futures and promises. In computer science, future, promise, and delay refer to constructs used for synchronizing in some concurrent programming languages.

Futures and promises

They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially unknown, usually because the computation of its value is yet incomplete. The terms future, promise, and delay are often used interchangeably, although some differences in usage between future and promise are treated below. Specifically, when usage is distinguished, a future is a read-only placeholder view of a variable, while a promise is a writable, single assignment container which sets the value of the future.[4] Notably, a future may be defined without specifying which specific promise will set its value, and different possible promises may set the value of a given future, though this can be done only once for a given future. Implicit vs explicit[edit] Promise pipelining[edit] Consider an expression involving conventional remote procedure calls, such as: t3 := ( x.a() ).c( y.b() ) ¿Por qué nuestro cerebro cree que esto es un perro? La verdadera razón por la que la falta de sueño te puede destruir.

Dementia and aging: Diary of a sufferer of microvascular disease. This essay was originally published in the Georgia Review, and is reprinted here with permission.

Dementia and aging: Diary of a sufferer of microvascular disease.

For my 61st birthday, in 2010, I was given the diagnosis of microvascular disease, after Alzheimer’s the second leading cause of dementia. The Truth About How Much a Happy Couple Should Have Sex. The internet is fucked. In a perfect storm of corporate greed and broken government, the internet has gone from vibrant center of the new economy to burgeoning tool of economic control.

The internet is fucked

Americanization of Narcissism author Elizabeth Lunbeck interview. Denouncing the narcissism of the young seems to have become a generational rite of passage, from the Silent Generation labeling the Baby Boomers “the ‘me’ generation” to the Boomers calling their own kids “the ‘me me me’ generation.”

Americanization of Narcissism author Elizabeth Lunbeck interview

Gumby Responsive CSS Grid Toggles and Switches - DigitalSurgeons.com. So for those of you that don’t know, the team here at Digital Surgeons created a responsive CSS grid framework last year called Gumby Framework.

Gumby Responsive CSS Grid Toggles and Switches - DigitalSurgeons.com

Needless to say, this completely changed the game and the internet was never the same. After a whole year of helping web properties be easily translated across devices, we decided to head back to the drawing board. In early 2013 we once again reinvented the wheel with the release of Gumby2. It is a wonderful platform that I myself have spent many hours hard at work on. 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers. Computers will be cleverer than humans by 2029, according to Ray Kurzweil, Google's director of engineering.

2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers

The entrepreneur and futurologist has predicted that in 15 years' time computers will be more intelligent than we are and will be able to understand what we say, learn from experience, make jokes, tell stories and even flirt. Kurzweil, 66, who is considered by some to be the world's leading artificial intelligence (AI) visionary, is recognised by technologists for popularising the idea of "the singularity" – the moment in the future when men and machines will supposedly converge. Ray Kurzweil. Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (/ˈkɜrzwaɪl/ KURZ-wyl; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor, futurist, and is a director of engineering at Google.

Ray Kurzweil

Aside from futurology, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, as has been displayed in his vast collection of public talks, wherein he has shared his primarily optimistic outlooks on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology. Life, inventions, and business career[edit] Early life[edit] Ray Kurzweil grew up in the New York City borough of Queens.

There's a Science to Foot Traffic, and It Can Help Us Design Better Cities - Wired Science. Detail of the winning design for Madong, a rural landscape-turned-commercial/residential neighborhood in Shanghai.

There's a Science to Foot Traffic, and It Can Help Us Design Better Cities - Wired Science

Image: Space Syntax China has in the past 30 years become the most urbanized country that has ever existed. More than 450 million Chinese — 1 in 25 people on the planet – live in cities. At least 160 Chinese cities have more than 1 million people, compared to nine in the United States. In a decade, the Chinese government plans to resettle 250 million people into new or existing urban areas. The naked truth about Bob Carlos Clarke. The Pleasure and Pain of Speed - Issue 9: Time. How long is now?

The Pleasure and Pain of Speed - Issue 9: Time

According to Google, not much less than 250 milliseconds. In 2008, the company presented a research report that examined ideal “latency” times for search results. It concluded “that a response time over 1 second may interrupt a user’s flow of thought.” The ideal latency for a search engine, said Google, was right at the quarter-second mark. Which seems safe enough, because psychologists have long estimated that it takes us humans at least a quarter of a second to do much of anything.

Advanced Composition and the Golden Ratio. This isn't really intended to be an assignment, but if you take all of this in and try to put it into practice, it will vastly improve your compositional skills. Power Points You already know about the rule of thirds, but let's talk about it in more detail. Here again is a diagram of a frame divided into thirds. Leveraging Directives to Reduce $watch'ers in Angular. While the princple is sound, the proof in this post is dead wrong, as demonstrated here.

Stand by for an updated blog post. Sometimes templates are going to be inherently heavy. Class-based AngularJS Development. Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture. Today we're going to discuss an effective set of patterns for large-scale JavaScript application architecture. Learning JavaScript Design Patterns. Design patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. They are both exciting and a fascinating topic to explore in any programming language. One reason for this is that they help us build upon the combined experience of many developers that came before us and ensure we structure our code in an optimized way, meeting the needs of problems we're attempting to solve.

Design patterns also provide us a common vocabulary to describe solutions.