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http://interestingengineering.com/handy-map-details-countrys-biggest-export/ This is an interesting map to take a look. →

http://interestingengineering.com/googles-new-program-autodraw-help-drawings-suck-less/ AutoDraw uses machine learning to match your doodles with professional works in order to clean up a sketch. Simply pull up AutoDraw on your phone, tablet, or desktop computer and start sketching.  As you draw, image suggestions will appear above the drawing pad.  “We hope AutoDraw will help make drawing and creating a little →

https://www.hackster.io/projects/tags/robots?sort=popular Celebrate National Robotics Week with these 300+ projects →

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/nato-and-eu-members-join-finland-s-new-center-for-countering-hybrid-threats Reuters:  Several European Union and NATO member nations on Tuesday signed up to establish a center in Helsinki to research how to tackle tactics such as cyberattacks, propaganda and disinformation….  →

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/safest-countries-in-the-world/ Finland is the safest country in the world. →

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/RONDAGDAG/listen-to-me-mobile-web-bluetooth-and-voice-recognition-0f388e?ref=user&ref_id=6783&offset=0 A voice controlled prototype home automation system using Arduino/Genuino101 and Mobile Web Bluetooth API remix ‘Lend Me Your Ears’ project. →

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/living-analog/4458237/Space-vectors- Interesting article on three phase power – how to generate it in motor control applications. →

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20170407_encryption_and_securing_our_digital_economy/ Currently, there are 360 million people that take part in cross-border e-commerce. 28% of output in mature economies is digital. The Internet is set to contribute $6.6 trillion a year, or 7.1% of the total GDP in the G20 countries.  And, by 2020, it’s estimated that more than 1 billion users will be added and there will be 30-50 →

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/09/waiting-for-the-new-new-thing/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&sr_share=facebook The smartphone wars are over, and everybody won. Life without our phones is almost unthinkable.  But now that the gold rush is over, and we’ve entered the mopping-up phase – what next? What is, as Michael Lewis once put it, the new new thing? Conventional wisdom gives us five major contenders: AI, AR/VR, biotech, →

https://opensource.com/life/15/2/five-specialized-linux-distributions-computer-repair?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY This article takes a look at five different Linux distributions designed to make your life easier when computers start giving you a headache. Give them a try, and make sure you keep CDs or USB drives with your favorites handy for when something does go wrong.  →