Rationell Variera+LED lights+car bateries=christmas in Rossio

An installation in Lisbon´s Rossio square designed by Teresa Otto and Diogo Aguiar using plastic bags dispensers from IKEA. One of the seven light installations commissioned by the Lisbon City Hall to celebrate the season in times of austerity.

1. José Adrião: a red tree in Praça de Londres

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Although the European tech job market is different from the American, this infographic gives a good overview of the needs of 3 big tech companies. Important recomendation: pick the right area of study.

Created by: Masters Degree

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A recent Schumpeter column in “The Economist” referred the report “Opportunities for Efficiency and Innovation: A Primer on How to Cut College Costs,” by Vance Fried of Oklahoma State University. Is it possible to provide a first-class undergraduate education for $6,700 a year rather than the $25,900 charged by public research universities or the $51,500 charged […]

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Google transferred to HTC a collection of patents originally from Palm and Motorola. The patents were added to a suit that HTC filed against Apple.
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-htc-sues-apple-using-mobile-patents-obtained-from-google/

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I am not so sure about getting way from the computer and about singing in the shower, but I am certain about making lists and breaking rules. And, of course, *always* carry a notebook…

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Amazing article by Kim Zetter in wired magazine, with a detailed report on the discovery of the world’s first real cyberweapon. A computer in a boot loop due to a virus led to the explanation of why a previously secret Iranian nuclear enrichment plant needed to replace between 1,000 and 2,000 centrifuges over a few months. […]

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A video produced for the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition 2011 that includes work and interviews with researchers of the LIREC project.
The importance of the face in human-to-human communication and how can we use this knowledge in the design of robots that have to work and interact with humans.
More about this exhibit here.

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30 years ago I was making an international phone call to the UK to try
to order my first computer. As a freshman at IST I could not afford
the memory extension, but I soon found out that amazing things could be
done with just 1KB of memory. For example, one could save 3 bytes by
zeroing a […]

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