A Week of Sweets, Spirits and Executive Shifts – AdAge.com
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Nudes Are Old News at Playboy – New York Times
Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy, went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion. In a wood-paneled dining room, with Picasso and de Kooning prints on the walls, Mr. Jones nervously presented a radical suggestion: the magazine, a leader…
This Software Can Plaster Someone Else’s Facial Expressions Onto Your Face – Motherboard
[embedded content] Well, this is disturbing. A team of researchers based in three different institutions has developed a software that can record someone else’s facial expressions, and plaster them onto your own face. The video shows a source actor, who makes various facial expressions and…
Why Great Marketing Results Are Worth the Wait – Business 2 Community
We live in an age of instant gratification. This era of hyper connection has caused the demand for instant results to truly penetrate every corner of our lives. Movies and TV shows begin streaming in seconds. Retailers offer same-day delivery services (delivery by drone, anyone?)….
Waterville airport sets sights high after big investments – Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
Randy Marshall, airport manager at Robert LaFleur Municipal Airport, stands with his dog, Molly, on Thursday on the newly renovated runway at the city-owned airport in Waterville. Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans WATERVILLE — The Robert LaFleur Municipal Airport is poised to handle more…
Bosch Saves Us From Wrong-Way Driving – IEEE Spectrum
The traffic accident you least want to be in is a collision with a car moving in a direction opposite to your own. Even though such wrong-way collisions account for only about 3 percent of accidents on divided highways in the United States, according to a 2013 report by…
ARMing a Breadboard — Everyone Should Program an ARM – Hackaday
I’m always a little surprised that we don’t see more ARM-based projects. Of course, we do see some, but the volume isn’t what I’d expect given that low-level ARM chips are cheap, capable, low power, and readily available. Having a 32-bit processor with lots of…
MELTDOWN: The complete story – Metalbulletin.com (subscription)
IMatthias Horner closed his front door gently behind him and scrunched across the gravel drive to the garage. He flicked the button on his car key ring, and the garage door began to swing open, as did the gate at the end of the drive…