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The Future Was Posted to Twitter Last Friday

Bryan Chaffin ·

Check out this amazing demo video from developer Harley Turan. He posted it to Twitter on Friday, just a few days after Apple’s WWDC keynote. In it, he attached live data to a real-world object using ARKit 2 and iOS 12, and then moves them around. It’s like an ordinary commercial using thousands of dollars in post-production software, only it’s life. Put another way, it’s the future, posted to Twitter a few days ago. When people doubt the real-world value of augmented reality, this is the sort of thing I think about. Not games, as great I expect Harry Potter: Wizards Unite to be, but rather information attached to real world locations and objects. Especially once we get past this stone-age era of holding our iPhones in front of our faces to get our augmented reality. Oh, and remember that this was after just a couple of days with hands-on iOS 12 and ARKit 2.

Fastest Supercomputer on Earth Now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Fastest Supercomputer on Earth Now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

John Martellaro ·

For several years now, Chinese supercomputers have been the fastest in the world. The list of the fastest supercomputers, at Top500.org, had been showing the U.S. falling behind. Recently the Oak RIdge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee announced that the new, IBM-built “Summit” supercomputer is capable of 200 petaflops. By comparison, a modern, fast desktop PC is in the teraflop class, making Summit about 200,000 times faster. ORNL’s release noted that uses for the machine include: “machine learning and deep learning to problems in human health, high-energy physics, [and] materials discovery. Summit allows [the Dept. of Energy] DOE and ORNL to respond to the White House Artificial Intelligence for America initiative.”

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1864378255/scribit-turn-your-wall-into-an-interactive-canvas#
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Scribit on Kickstarter Creates (and Erases) Art on Your Wall

Bryan Chaffin ·

Check out Scribit on Kickstarter. It’s a device that will create art on your wall—from drawings to your recent Twitter messages to crowdsourced designs. Better yet, it will erase that art, too, turning your wall into giant reusable canvas. It can draw using four pens (red, blue, yellow, and black), and it needs two nails and a power outlet to install. The video is cool as can be, and the project has already raised more than US$400,000 with 23 days to go. Pledge levels that will get you a Scribit start at $349.

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The Complete Adobe CC Training Bundle: $29

Bryan Chaffin ·

We have a deal today on The Complete Adobe CC Training Bundle, a collection of training courses for Adobe Creative Cloud. It includes courses for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash & Animate, After Effects, and Introduction to Animation. This bundle is $29 through us.