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Cyber-Earth: citizenship for nature
07
Nov
Cyber-Earth is a term used in the CCC blog (Comunity Computing Consortium) in a post Sheckar Shashi, a georeferenced
representation based on the planet Web intended to serve as a communication tool for citizens, politicians and researchers, particularly on the nature, designed to preview the future of the planet and its sustainability.
Joint work with tools and Cyber-Earth expects to envision the future of the planet, enabling the discovery of spatio-temporal patterns, on which to make inferences based on meaningful standards, showing future threats to society and analyze the options and consequences worldwide .
Cyber-Earth could help citizens and policy-making mechanisms capable of making scientific predictions in the areas of climate and demographics, along with its effects on environments such aspects as: food, water and energy.
Building the next generation of Cyber-Land offers several important challenges such as the development of building blocks and software methodologies to compare alternative scientific models amid a large variety of physical sciences, social sciences, and information sciences.
The organization won a grant of $ 4.5 million in funding in the area called Geospatial Building Blocks (Gabbs) with two environments, the system called HUBzero, a platform for open source and GEOSHARE project that creates a tool for modeling the effect of climate change on historical and future crop yields.
Pre-sales of Apple in Brazil
06
Nov
The country has always stood for then, when the launches of new models of Apple iPhones now 6 Plus models will be launched in the pre-sales also in the country, on Friday (7), previous versions were marketed only by the telecom operators.
The novelty is intended to facilitate the acquisition and avoid the traditional queues releases, and buyers will seek the appliances a week after the launch, ie 14 November, US prices however will not be the same here because of taxes, in there prices posting for two-year contracts are: iPhone 6 is $ 199 (model with 16 GB of storage), $ 299 (64GB) and $ 399 (128 GB, while iPhone 6 Plus salt for U$ 299 (16 GB), $ 399 (64GB) and $ 499 (128GB).
Little news (keeps the 8 Megapixel camera, for example), however, and the biggest problem for users, which is breaking the front windows or have splintered, common rear happened, will continue, as only certain models of Android phones is that has a durable glass Gorilla glass, Apple remains fragile, and the repair is expensive.
Official prices for Brazil were not disclosed by the company
Android code 5 is released
05
Nov
In practice this means that not only manufacturers but also developers can download the system image and follow the instructions on the link to install the version that is being called Lollipop, and this version is already announced for the Nexus 4, 5, 6 (versions by 2012) and 7 (version 2013) for Edition Google Play devices.
These versions will be available in the coming weeks, for now is only available l version 9 for the Nexus tablet, released this week in the US.
And other Motorola, Asus, HTC, Sony and OnePlus, manufacturers also update for these devices are available at this link.
CyanogenMod much as had warned should now have begun since the Lollipop had said that once the source code of the current version was released this update would begin.
It is possible that Android 5.0 will soon land in the most varied devices already in the memories ROMs (previously recorded on the hardware itself).
To save water: iWater
03
Nov
An application to help save water was built by a student of only 16 years, Victor Capilé, 16, developed the iWater, and explained that the application beyond counting water withdrawal also brings information and curiosities about water resources in the world promoting greater awareness of the water.
He told the story of a portal: “I believe that the lack of water can also trigger wars unless we do something. So we decided to take the project forward, because people need to have that awareness, “according to the Earth.
Free Standing and application was created for a school science fair Garriga de Menezes last year and is available online in iwater.capile.net address.
The student involved colleagues from school, and now the students are working to improve the app and started a fundraiser to provide a version for smartphones on websites of various lines of handsets.
There are other applications, the Basic Sanitation Company of the State of São Paulo created a Water Our application, developed by Akatu and the Brazilian Federation of Banks, to conscious of water consumption, it also allows the estimation and design the discount that can get in the water bill.
The UN predicts that the population of the planet will need something around 40% more water by 2030 and that the inappropriate and excessive consumption may produce a generalized crisis that awareness exists only in time of crisis and the Brazilians still are far from ecological and climatic problems
Brazilian network in elections
28
Oct
The numbers were impressive, the elections involved 48.3 million people on Facebook, almost 54% of users in the country, showing that elections are definitely on the era of electronic media networks.
The number is triple the previous record of the election period, when 227 million interactions recorded in India election this year, but in a country of 1.252 billion, ie six times more than Brazil and twice netizens, according to the Facebook itself.
The director of institutional relations of Facebook in the country, Bruno Magrana said to the news agencies that Brazilian elections were “one of the biggest events experienced on the platform this year,” but we still need to use dialogue and not to harm.
The attendance was bigger than the World Cup, when the social network reached three billion interactions, but largely by political demonstrations on the World Cup, although it is debatable effective politicization, the number of people who attended and opined it is important to the advancement of democracy in Brazil.
