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How Does JPEG Work? Understanding the Subtle Beauty of Image Compression

TechSpot

At a high level, JPEG is a lossy image compression technique. What you may not realize is that achieving this required a fascinating blend of human perception, elegant signal processing, and clever engineering prowess. Let's begin with a visual challenge: What are the colors of the tiles marked as A and B in the image below?

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Microsoft patents a system that encrypts documents so you can read them in public without being visually hacked

TechSpot

The technique encodes the document by modifying letters in the text portion of the original document. It then displays the document in a privacy mode based on an alpha-blended version. A recent Microsoft patent describes a system that encrypts a document, making it indecipherable to anyone other than the reader. Read Entire Article

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5 Infographics About Infographics To Master Basics in Five Minutes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” An infographic (short of information graphic) is a picture that blends data with design, storytelling, and insights that helps nonprofits concisely communicate messages to their audiences. ” There’s where I discovered a new passion – data visualization techniques for sense-making. … Read More

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7 Ways To Build An Effective Corporate Culture

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The workforce included a blend of long-term employees with a rich company, product/service and customer history, employees who had been at the company for five to seven years, and then new hires with a fresh perspective and keen sense of new technologies and techniques.

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7 Ways To Build An Effective Corporate Culture

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The workforce included a blend of long-term employees with a rich company, product/service and customer history, employees who had been at the company for five to seven years, and then new hires with a fresh perspective and keen sense of new technologies and techniques.

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Could you beat this bipedal robot’s 5K run time?

The Verge

The team behind Cassie say this might change as new deep learning techniques allow bipedal robots to develop new ways to stabilize themselves during locomotion. OSU robotics professor and Agility Robotics co-founder Jonathan Hurst is still confident bipedal bots will become the norm, blending in with humans. “In Image: OSU.

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KFC announced it’s leaving Kentucky

Fast Company Tech

The food chain now known as KFC launched by Colonel Harland Sanders and his secret blend of 11 herbs and spiceswill be based in Plano, Texas, and about 100 KFC corporate employees will be relocated in the next six months, said Yum Brands, which owns KFC , Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. corporate office to Texas.