Keepers at Zoo Sauvage in Quebec, Canada suspected the arrival of a newborn Cougar when they observed a change in one of their female’s behaviour. The confirmed birth of a new cub has keepers excited but cautious, so mother and cub have been separated from the other Cougars on exhibit — via ZooBorns
Romain Jerome is the luxury watch brand that offers the Titanic-DNA timepiece, including bits of the sunken ship, and the Moon-DNA line, complete with moon dust. Their latest in that vein is a Space Invaders-themed watch, composed of spare parts from Apollo 11
. It’s limited to 78 pieces and sells for around $18,000 — via Boing Boing
Spain is a hotbed of custom motorcycle building at the moment, and Radical Ducati is at the forefront of the performance-oriented scene. Wildcat is the latest creation from Pepo Rosell and Reyes Ramon. It’s built around a blueprinted Monster 1100 Evo engine with a carbon fiber airbox, so it’s not short on power — via Bike EXIF
NBC’s official Olympic website describes Australia as located in central Europe:
Located in central Europe, bordered to the north by Germany and the Czech Republic, to the west by Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to the south by Italy and Slovenia, and to the east by Hungary and Slovakia. Is primarily mountainous with the Alps and foothills covering the western and southern provinces.
And people have been pointing it out for at least a day, and NBC is sticking to its story — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Santambrogio employed the use of glass sheets as structural elements. This excludes the need of other supporting elements, thus letting the eye wander free from distractions — via InspireFirst
Testing a New Cushion, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
50 years ago, Lord Glenconner created a private island sanctuary for those who were tired of the usual holday destinations. The island of Mustique is located in the Grenadines, West Indies and now has 9 pristine beaches and 74 villas including Taliesin.
Designed by Diamond Schmitt architects, the Taliesin residence is situated on a steep slope. The 20,000 square foot residence includes a gym, pool, spa, and activity rooms. The residence takes full advantage of its beautiful site allowing for an open-air lifestyle while providing luxurious seclusion and privacy. As a result, the main living space is organized to maximize the view of the ocean, and the living room, dining room, and kitchen all look out over the sea — via ArchDaily
A couple of wildebeest contemplate crossing a river — via Bird Box Studio
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New research being released this week at the Black Hat security conference by academics in Spain and the US may make that possible.
The academics have found a way to recreate iris images that match digital iris codes that are stored in databases and used by iris-recognition systems to identify people. The replica images, they say, can trick commercial iris-recognition systems into believing they’re real images and could help someone thwart identification at border crossings or gain entry to secure facilities protected by biometric systems.
The work goes a step beyond previous work on iris-recognition systems. Previously, researchers have been able to create wholly synthetic iris images that had all of the characteristics of real iris images — but weren’t connected to real people. The images were able to trick iris-recognition systems into thinking they were real irises, though they couldn’t be used to impersonate a real person. But this is the first time anyone has essentially reverse-engineered iris codes to create iris images that closely match the eye images of real subjects, creating the possibility of stealing someone’s identity through their iris.
The idea is to generate the iris image, and once you have the image you can actually print it and show it to the recognition system, and it will say ‘okay, this is the [right] guy’,
says Javier Galbally, who conducted the research with colleagues at the Biometric Recognition Group-ATVS, at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and researchers at West Virginia University — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Wikipedia is written and maintained by tens of thousands of volunteers across the world. Those, in turn, are assisted by hundreds of bots
— autonomous computer programmes that keep the encyclopaedia running.
Penis is the male sex organ
, the Wikipedia page in question read.
While that statement is undeniably true and thus may merit inclusion in Wikipedia, it belongs nowhere in the site’s article on national supreme courts and their legal roles.
When an anonymous Wikipedia reader in South Carolina offered that contribution to the globally popular online encyclopaedia last week, it took just seconds for the blemish to be discovered and deleted.
The vandalism was caught not by a reader, but by a simple artificial intelligence programme called a bot — short for robot — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Twitter is working on a tool that would let users export every tweet they’ve ever made on the site, the company’s chief executive, Dick Costolo, told The New York Times.
But why would someone want all their tweets — possibly going all the way back to 2006, when Twitter was first launched?
Facebook already lets you download a personal archive
that includes a list of every message you’ve ever sent to someone, a list of every friend you have on the network, copies of any photos or videos you have ever uploaded to the site, and much more. I recently fetched mine and was surprised at the amount of data I’ve shared — packaged up by Facebook into 46MB worth of files and folders — and I consider myself a light user.
Now imagine data from Twitter’s 140 million users who are firing off 140-character tweets throughout the day, every day, whether about their own personal trivia, or their thoughts on current news as it unfolds — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scotland could become the first part of the UK to introduce gay marriage after the SNP government announced plans to make the change.
Ministers confirmed they would bring forward a bill on the issue, indicating the earliest ceremonies could take place by the start of 2015.
Political leaders, equality organisations and some faith groups welcomed introducing same-sex marriage.
But it was strongly opposed by the Catholic Church and Church of Scotland.
The announcement was made in the wake of a government consultation which produced a record 77,508 responses.
Same-sex couples in Scotland currently have the option to enter into civil partnerships and the Holyrood government has insisted no part of the religious community would be forced to hold same-sex weddings in churches — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A C-17 Globemaster III headed for MacDill Air Force Base on Friday afternoon landed inadvertently
at the much smaller Peter O Knight GA airport located just a few miles away, according to airport authorities.
The 174-foot-long transport touched down on the airport’s 3,405-foot-long, 100-foot-wide runway around 1.30pm, coming to a stop within 10 feet of the runway’s end, according to witnesses. The C-17 had flown in from Southwest Asia with 42 people on board, 19 of whom were crewmembers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
About a year ago, two design students named Alex Cabunoc and Ji A You travelled from their homes in Los Angeles to Cerro Verde, a 30,000 person slum outside of Lima. As students in the celebrated Design Matters program at Art Centre College of Design, which focuses on social innovation, they had come to Cerro Verde as part of a special studio called Safe Agua Peru. Their goal? Develop a commercial product that alleviates issues related to water poverty, targeted at people who earn between $4 and $10 a day.
The students spent two weeks in Cerro Verde, working closely with inhabitants to prototype co-created
products at a break-neck speed. Since returning, nearly half of the students have won International Design Excellence Awards, and a student-made documentary about the trip called Hands in the Mist has been shortlisted for a Young Directors Award at Cannes. Cabunoc and You’s design–a manually powered washer and dryer that costs less than $40 called GiraDora–has drawn special attention — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Four little Asiatic Lion cubs (Panthera leo persica) were born on 15 May after a gestation of about 3.5 months to mother Indu and father Mwamba at the UK’s Paignton Zoo Environmental Park. This is the parent first success after several failed attempts — via ZooBorns
I have been wanting to make one of these poufs for awhile now, so was stoked when I spotted this great tutorial on how to do so on Curbly by DIYer Retropolitan. What a great way to bring in a thick, textured and pattered textile into your home while also providing extra seating — via CRAFT
Italian architect Luca Zanaroli has designed a contemporary remodel and extension of a saracen trullo, a common rural building found in the Ostuni region of Italy — via CONTEMPORIST
Parallels Support (via Mike Ash):
We use in-product notifications to share several types of information with our customers. First, and most importantly, we share information about product updates which are generally related to compatibility with OS X, new features and product enhancements. Second, we occasionally share special offers from Parallels or other third party companies who provide special deals for our customers. Many of our customers rely on the information about product updates and appreciate the special deals for products that are of interest to them.
Individual notifications can be turned off by clicking the “don’t show this again” button. However, because customers need to receive important product information, there is not a mechanism for customers to completely disable notifications.
The whole thread is disturbing. When Parallels first came out, I used it to run Windows. Lately, I’ve been using VMware Fusion, mostly to run prior and pre-release versions of Mac OS X — via Michael Tsai
Sydneysiders rejoice! Google Maps has finally added public transport directions for buses, trains and ferries.
Search for directions between two Sydney addresses and you’ll also be offered public transport directions where available, including the times of relevant services. The system will default to choosing the fastest trip, but you can click the More options
link and specify if you want train, bus, ferry or light rail. The search isn’t rock-solid — it didn’t always spot ferry trips in my early tests — but even in an imperfect form, this is a long-overdue addition. Sydney has had directions for the light rail since 2009, but that’s only a tiny part of the system — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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