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Technologies that can change our lives
27
Oct
Many things can impact our lives and change the way the market and even
people behave, it is the case with many technologies, but there is still something to happen.
3D printers, grew 35% since 2011, the figures were moved around US $ 1.7 billion is over $ 3 billion this year and could reach 6.5 billion by 2019, according to assessment of Alliance Bernstein, and this may affect up to production mode.
Already posted here that Skype will be doing translations online in an attempt to compete in a space filled increasingly by WhatsApp, the sense of citizenship world will increase with this and the global village will becoming a homeland-world, as predicted Edgar Morin .
The company Joule Biotechnologies instead of using organic matter, we must stop the organic production for fuels unfortunately is the case of sugarcane and corn, are trying to accomplish genetic modification to photosynthetic organisms that use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into ethanol and diesel which is carbon, and oxygen (C02). This may change the supply chain that depends on fossil fuels.
A changing world depends on the technology and they can and should affect human life, but of course, all decisions are taken by men (and women).
Cynical political in Brazilian ministerial reform
02
Oct
While the company expected a government nod on making reforms that 
Politicking pulled the belt also in the huge state machine, which finally saw there was a huge give and take with the most area linked to personal interests of the legislative bodies.
The PMDB is strengthened, though a small group of 20 MPs have protested against the take there gives here, to the Ministry of Science and Technology will the unknown (will that made at least one college) Congressman Celso Pansera in Civil Aviation, Eliseu Padilha, did not change his “high-flying” by Science and Technology and favored the PMDB drawing play in the country’s infrastructure, read manipulating their interests, as required by the party leader in the House, Leonardo Picciani (RJ).
Pansera was quoted by the money changer Alberto Yousseff in plea bargaining in the operation Lava-Jato (rober public Money) as “tariff warrant” the mayor, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ), which denies the deputy, also of the PMDB Congressman Marcelo Castro (PMDB-PI) will for Health folder that has a fat budget, it should be for people’s health.
The son of the mega-landowner Jader Barbalho see his son get out of Fishing Minister (joke) to go to the Havens Minister, hélder barbalho he was confirmed in the Ports Department, as was her request.
There is still an expectation to announce Congressman André Figueiredo (PDT-EC) to take over the Ministry of Communications, is a nod to the lottery, misdemeanor games and other militants of the unofficial economy of “gambling”.
Renato Janine Ribeiro left to give vague Mercadante, less evil.The car wash operation complete cynicism of this game, not bad luck, to dismember the complaints process and then sew the quilt as the official interests.You can fool some for some time, but not all for all time.
Os memes como arte
03
Sep
Enquanto os puristas ficam criticam e mal usando a internet,
pessoas bem intencionadas tentam por um pouco de humor e descontração na Web, existe muita gente tentando por bom humor, brincadeiras saudáveis e fazer bom uso da internet e da Web.
O termo meme é uma ampliação do conceito de Richard Dawkings sobre um termo que ampliava a teoria de informações culturais em seu livro The Selfish Gene.
Mas meme virou uma forma de pixação e em tempos de fanatismo político, isto se ampliou ainda mais e ao contrário de ampliar o conceito de informação cultura, o deturpa.
Uma versão mais “light” de ilustração nas fotos da Web ficou conhecida no jargão da Web como “photobombing”, que no sentido negativo é arruinar uma foto por uma ação planejada ou mesmo acidental, mas que pode muito bem ser positiva, é o caso do artista Lucas Levitan.
Suas intervenções curiosas e bem humoradas estão de acordo com aquele conceito de Dawkins.
Whatsapp poderá ser cobrado
24
Aug
Em muitos países que não são em desenvolvimento não há cobrança, o Whatsapp 
sempre foi cobrado, em geral oferecem um período de testes de um ano e depois há um pagamento de US$ 0,99 após este período, mas no Brasil a dúvida paira no ar, antes diziam que era um vírus, mas agora …
Agora não é vírus nem mentira, a notícia foi veiculada pela Agência de Notícias Reuters, então parece que as operadoras já caras e que prestam mau serviço aos brasileiros, querem também cobrar pelo Whatsapp.
Segundo a agencia de notícias em menos dois meses elas vão entregarão às autoridades do Brasil, um documento, segundo elas com fundamentos jurídicos e econômicos não apenas querem cobrar, mas também sendo contra o funcionamento do aplicativo.
O lobbie vai atuar junto à Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) e embora não cite será o principal alvo é o aplicativo de voz do WhatsApp, a troca de mensagens não é citado.
As caras operadoras (o Brasil tem um dos serviços mais caros do mundo) esperam questionar o o serviço e passar a cobrá-lo ou impedir que funcione para chamadas. No WhatsApp dá um número de telefone móvel do usuário e por esta brecha que as operadoras querem se defender, enquanto em outros serviços, há um login sem número.
Não bastasse a inflação e carestia, todo mundo quer meter a mão em nosso bolso.
The future of the Internet is social
17
Aug
Fear and ignorance of the technology produces an technophobia that prevents
them from seeing the great strides that the internet and other technologies provide, a recent study published in the IMDEA site shows that the future of the Internet is social.
The work was done by IMDEA Networks Institute who announced the successful completion of its Content Distribution Research projects done by the European Advanced Institute of Social Information (eCOUSIN – enhanced Content Distribution with Social Information).
The findings of the project gather data from the purpose of the research, the agreement made between employees of the European Commission that it had as main objective to create an innovative network architecture that improve the efficiencies of online social networks, as well as provide a quality experience users.
The idea of the project was to explore the growing popularity of social content online and their interdependencies, focusing on data collection and analysis, the scalability of the network infrastructure, connecting features related to the contents, and guided by social information through algorithms projects.
Nine partners from six countries and four universities participated in the project, including IMDEA based in Madrid, which contributed passive and light measurement tools, performance models, and predictors of mobile networks, as well as algorithms for resource allocation optimization.
The ethos, the nature and the Self
14
Aug
The anthropocentric concept of ethics comes from the Greek ethos which means somehow culture, customs, basic habits that are reflected in institutions and affairs of the day and day values, ideas and beliefs of a certain community, time or territorial region.
The sense of territory could be confused with another ethos which is the abode of the Self, but for the Greeks who we are and where we live had a significance attached to the Other and Nature herself, a sense of “home” broader than what today We know it would be a Being-being.
This ethos reaches nature and therefore is not anthropocentric, we could decipher it as harmony and in a way that is what worries the Papal Encyclical “Laudato Si”, which is a concern “About Care Common Home” and this refers Nature and climate.
Disharmony and the rapid environmental deterioration reach around the globe and this is also concern of many current thinkers have written a post about the book “The world has no more time to lose” and wish to draw attention to the end of the Paris meeting the year and has already mobilized many social forces.
Walking through forests, allowing in natural spaces ecosystems develop, allow wild animals to live in their habitats, it seems every day more impossible, but there is something to directly affect humanity the effects of weather and water.
Our Being feel it, but to understand this One must understand that nature has “soul” and perhaps this anthropocentrism barrier has to be overcome: harmony of our “house”.
The sun can take a nap
29
Jul
That’s what he told Valentina Zharkova scientist
at the University of Northumbria, a National Meeting of Astronomy in Lladudno, Wales.
Modern technology allows us to accurately predict solar cycles, and enough need Zharkova model indicates that solar output may drop by half between 2030 and 2040.
For a long time it was believed that solar activity was due to a system of fluid turbines that moved into the sun, but Zharkova and his team found that are fluctuating magnetic waves in two layers of the Sun, and studying the data from these double wave is that her team made very accurate predictions.
The period when sunspots are rare, are Maunder Minimum calls, and it is believed that he was the last time between 1645 and 1715, the period were observed about 50 sunspots, while normal is 40,000. The era was marked by brutally cold temperatures that froze rivers in Europe and North America, reaching record temperatures below -40º (Celsius).
This could cause a global climate change, but Valentina in an interview with USA Today, disputed that link and emphasized that their research has touched on the possibility of climate change, only a cooler period.
Accessibility for all
27
Jul
How many facilities modern technology has 
brought, imagine now spend the day without using your smartphone with touch screen, or without being able to use the mouse. You could still do his job? That’s how many disabled people feel.
Accessibility Difficulties prevent millions of people to use a basic technology for business and pleasure, so it seems a good idea to build products that address these issues, ie make functional products for the disabled is already an afterthought, say a newscast of the Washington Post, but on thursday many companies announced a novelty.
Several companies, including Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn and Dropbox announced Thursday that they will develop a standard language that allows users known that will have new accessibility knowledge to get a job.
The move is part of a larger program called “Accessibility Education“: a joint effort between the disability advocates, schools and industries of the technology to make technology accessible to all from the beginning.
The initiative arose from discussions organizations were already using a technology forum created by the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), where representatives meet regularly to talk about doing the most visible accessibility issues in the technology world .
A set of procedures for job description may still not seem like much, but sends a signal to prospective universities on knowledge of accessibility issues is a big deal, he told American newspaper, Henry Claypool, a consultant on disability issues and former -vice executive president of the AAPD.
Defining moment for the climate
21
Jul
The cop21, conference from Paris to the climate will be a turning 
point for the planet.
It is what they are convinced thousands of activists and non-governmental organizations fighting against deforestation, the disregard for forest peoples and especially the limitation of social actions that harm the climate around the globe.
For many scientists to predict the effect from 2020 is disaster, and the agreement of Paris can drive all efforts to contain emissions of greenhouse gases that have damaged the climate balance of the planet.
The climatic imbalance of the planet has been observed that drought, the frightening levels of melting at the poles, floods and torrential storms becoming more common, beyond the worrying rise in sea levels.
The UN goal, and the Conference of Paris may uphold, it is that for the next few years is to limit the rise of global warming by up to 2 ° C, ie pre-industrial levels.
Scientists say that, to continue the current growth levels, the Earth’s climate may collapse.
The realization of the Climate Conference will be between November 30 and December 11, 2015, with the participation of 50 thousand people from 95 nations
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The Internet of Things benefit the development
30
Jun
The potential economic value of the Internet 
of Things (IoT) is being widely underestimated, and it could be worth more than $ 11 trillion a year, according to a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute, see in Washington Post.
The Trade Marks Registry gives six reasons why the IoT is being underestimated, which includes the sub-use of data generated by various sensing devices and other networked devices.
According to the institute’s analysts paint a big-picture economic outlook, seen exclusively in industrial sectors, while there is the primary concentration of opportunities in the market to Consume Commerce (business-to-consumer) of IoT and is missing a potentially much larger opportunity the business-to-business.
In addition, about 40% of the IoT’s economic value is fed by the interoperability device, which obviates the revenue opportunity in software and hardware for this.
McKinsey also argues the impact of the Internet of Things on world economies in development are underestimated and that these savings benefit of about 40 percent of economic gains compared with about 60 percent share of the developed world due to a mistaken view this is only for the advanced world.
McKinsey speculates some developing countries will be able to overcome the advances in developed countries because the installation of equipment or infrastructure with sensors and actuators will become a problem solved.
Finally, the Internet of Things will support new business models that are likely to correlate with how data is tracked and evaluated in real time, making the frontiers of technology and and no-tech companies can not be confused.
