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7-Year-Old Zora Ball Is the World’s Youngest Game Programmer
The youngest person to create a full version of a mobile application video game. A first grader at Philadelphia’s Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School, she’s already more accomplished than everyone you know.
Ball built the app in the Bootstrap programming language, and unveiled her game at FATE’s “Bootstrap Expo” at the University of Pennsylvania.
Apparently some grumpy olds were suspicious that her older brother was really the mastermind behind the program, but Zora showed them. When asked to reconfigure the app on the spot, Ball showed naysayers what was up when she executed the request perfectly.
“We expect great things from Zora, as her older brother, Trace Ball, is a past STEM Scholar of the Year,” said Harambee Science Teacher Tariq Al-Nasir. No pressure, baby geniuses, but there’s an entire world for you to save. Please hurry.
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7-Year-Old Zora Ball Is the World’s Youngest Game Programmer
The youngest person to create a full version of a mobile application video game. A first grader at Philadelphia’s Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School, she’s already more accomplished than everyone you know.
Ball built the app in the Bootstrap programming language, and unveiled her game at FATE’s “Bootstrap Expo” at the University of Pennsylvania.
Apparently some grumpy olds were suspicious that her older brother was really the mastermind behind the program, but Zora showed them. When asked to reconfigure the app on the spot, Ball showed naysayers what was up when she executed the request perfectly.
“We expect great things from Zora, as her older brother, Trace Ball, is a past STEM Scholar of the Year,” said Harambee Science Teacher Tariq Al-Nasir. No pressure, baby geniuses, but there’s an entire world for you to save. Please hurry.
[ht @Jezebel via @PhillyTrib]
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University of Oxford is developing this self-driving kit that will later cost around $150. Unbelievably cheap. However, as of now, their testing kit ranges over 1k. It’s incredible what technology can do for us and the people behind it. Personally, I would love to attach my iPad to my car, set my destination, sit back, and have my car do all the driving. This will especially be helpful for drunk drivers and the well being of sober drivers on a friday and saturday night.
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The Fashion Hackathon Winners.
Fashion Hackathon was a 24-hour event where 550 registered participants and 78 teams competed to build a technology that helps American fashion designers. It was held Feb. 2-3, at the Alley NYC.(by DecodedFashion)
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“According to research by Morgan Stanley, the Russian ecommerce sector stood at around $12bn in 2012 – just 1.9% of total retail sales; by comparison, the global average is currently about 6.5%. But with ecommerce projected to grow by 35%, to 4.5% of Russian retail sales by 2015, and to 7% by 2020 – making the market worth $72bn – a tipping point is fast approaching.”
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“University at Buffalo engineers have created a more efficient way to catch rainbows, an advancement in photonics that could lead to technological breakthroughs in solar energy, stealth technology and other areas of research.”
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World’s First Bionic Eye Receives FDA Approval
The new retinal prosthesis, called Argus II, can restore partial sight to people blinded by a degenerative eye disease. The Argus II works by substituting a small array of electrodes for the light-sensing cells that normally react to light by sending an electric signal toward the back of the retina. Those signals are relayed to the optic nerve behind the eye, and travel back along the nerve to the brain. In people with the genetic disease Retinitis pigmentosa, which affects about 100,000 people in the U.S. today, those light-sensing cells gradually stop working, resulting in total blindness. In addition to the electrode array, which is implanted in the retina at the back of the eye, the Argus II system consists of a small video camera attached to a pair of eyeglasses and a visual processor the user carries around their waist. Data from the video camera is sent to the visual processor and then back to the glasses, where it is transmitted wirelessly to the embedded electrodes.
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New Pew study charts the explosive growth of American social media. Usage of Twitter alone is now at a 16%, having doubled since late 2010.
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A look inside Obama’s (social) White House - The Next Web
Interview with Kori Schulman, Director of Online Engagement at The White House.
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“Parse.ly spiced up Web publisher analytics last year with its Dash service, and the startup is at it again with Friday’s release of a handy Glimpse dashboard overview feature. Glimpse is built for large displays and is designed to show editors the most crucial metrics that they should be watching. It’s a dense combination of information like views, shares, top referrers.”
Parse.ly releases Glimpse, a convenient analytics dashboard for Web publishers - The Next WebPhoto
Staying focused and motivated enough to actually complete a New Year’s resolution is never easy, but with ResolutionTweet, it’s almost effortless to keep track of your goals and spur on other people. The app, available on iOS and Android, is a productivity tool centered around long-term objectives and subtle life changes, rather than tackling a list of chores or work-related tasks on a daily basis. (via ResolutionTweet: This app helps you set new goals and actually achieve them - The Next Web)
