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Being a Go-Getter Is No Fun – The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/being-a-go-getter-is-no-fun/393863/?utm_source=atlfb More competent people can suffer from fact that employers have higher expectations  for them, assign more work for them and often under-estimate the work needed to do the tasks.

Last call to protect freedom of panorama across Europe

https://juliareda.eu/2016/06/last-call-freedom-of-panorama/ There are serious restrictions how you can use your own photos taken at public locations in many EU countries. Hopefully the EU harmonisation will not become too restrictive – just few days to react to it.

BBC micro:bit dev board

Last year BBC introduced Micro:bit development board  Intended to allow children to get creative with technology. The Micro:bit is one of the cornerstones of the BBC’s “Make it Digital” campaign. With Micro:bit BBC tries to get a million preteens into embedded development world as Micro:bit will be given to every 11 or 12 year old child

Friday Fun: iPhone in old painting

Tim Cook discovers iPhone in painting from 1670 article: “At one point Tim rushes over and tells me ‘Come take a look, I found a painting with an iPhone on it!’ So he takes my arm and shows me a Rembrandt with a person seemingly holding an iPhone…” Tim Cook finished the story, saying “I always

Now Graphene Can Have a Tunable, Stable Bandgap – IEEE Spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/now-graphene-can-have-a-tunable-stable-bandgap?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29&utm_content=FaceBook Making graphene suitable for digital electronics and spintronics applications.