Apple News: Apple to retire Aperture photo app
Users of Apple’s Aperture photo app will have a few months to bid goodbye to the software, which will be retired later this year, tech sites reported over the weekend. Instead, they will soon be introduced to Photos, a similar photo-oriented app that will be released in 2015, TechCrunch reported. The report said “Photos” for OS X, which replaces the iPhoto app, will include many of the advanced photo editing features in Aperture. However, Apple said it will roll out compatibility updates to Aperture so it can run on the next version of OS X codenamed “Yosemite.”
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Technology News: New Technology Is Turning Education Upside Down
Higher education is one of the great successes of the welfare state.
What was once the privilege of a few has become a middle-class entitlement, thanks mainly to government support. Some 3.5m Americans and 5m Europeans will graduate this summer. In the emerging world universities are booming: China has added nearly 30m places in 20 years. Yet the business has changed little since Aristotle taught at the Athenian Lyceum: young students still gather at an appointed time and place to listen to the wisdom of scholars. Now a revolution has begun (see “The future of universities: The digital degree”), thanks to three forces: rising costs, changing demand and disruptive technology. The result will be the reinvention of the university.
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Programming News: Stuff that every programmer should know: Data Visualization
If you’re a programmer and you don’t have visualization as one of your main tools in your belt, then good news, you just found how to easily improve your skill set. Really it should be taught in any programming course. Visualizing data has two main advantages compared to looking at the same data in a tabular form. The first is that we can pack more data in a graph that we can get by looking at numbers on screen, even more if we make our visualizations interactive, allowing explorations inside a data set. Our visual bandwidth is massive! This is useful also because it means we can avoid (or rely less on) summarization techniques (statistics) that are always by their nature “lossy” and can easily hide important details (the Anscombe’s quartet is the usual example).
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Photography News: 10 Tips for Healthy Camera Memory Cards
Lets talk memory cards. We all have them, need them and use them. But what does it all mean? Lets discuss taking care of our cards and preventing potential problems that can and will happen to all of us. Here’s ten practical tips.
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