Categoria: 01 – Curiosidades na Internet

Ao finalizar o jogo na tela, Sawyer e Michael, de 10 anos de idade, se cumprimentam. O toque físico entre esses dois meninos autistas não era frequente até pouco tempo: foi um aprendizado adquirido através de um videogame Xbox equipado com o sensor de movimentos Kinect.

A escola Steuart W. Weller d’Ashburn, de Virgínia, a cerca de 50 quilômetro a noroeste de Washington, tem um dos centros especializados nos Estados Unidos em testar os consoles de videogames com autistas jovens.

O Kinect, lançado pela Microsoft em 2010, permite jogar sem controles, utilizando seu próprio corpo graças a um detector de movimentos.

O aparelho não foi projetado com fins terapêuticos, mas é, segundo especialistas, uma ferramenta interessante para ajudar jovens com transtornos do espectro autista, condição que segundo avaliações…

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Thanks, Quartz

Os animais retirados da Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural (RPPN) Revecom, em Santana, a 17 quilômetros de Macapá, estão sob cuidados de biólogos para que sejam verificadas as condições de saúde de cada um. São 121 animais, que foram transferidos para o centro de tratamento do Instituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente (Ibama), na capital, após a reserva fechar em 2013 por falta de condições financeiras.

A transferência ocorreu no dia 26 de fevereiro, sendo a maioria jabutis, que somam 52 animais. Papagaios, periquitos e araras também foram remanejados. Por causa do tratamento recebido no Centro de Triagens de Animais Silvestres (Cetas) do Ibama, algumas aves já apresentam resultados.

“Disponibilizamos uma área maior do que as araras tinham na reserva, e atualmente algumas já estão voando”, comemorou o superintendente do Ibama César Quaresma.

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The Cambridge, Mass.-based but highly distributed company saw its last CEO Gregory Collins leave in January. CTO Justin Sheehy and chief architect Andy Gross announced their exits this week — Sheehy to become a senior director at VMware(s vmw) and Gross to Twitter(s twtr).

Wray was CEO of Tier 3, a data center and Platform-as-a-Service company for a couple of years. The company was subsequently acquired by CenturyLink(s ctl).  He also sits on several boards. McCrory (pictured below at Structure), was most recently SVP of engineering at Warner Music Group and before that a chief architect of Cloud Foundry for VMware.

In a brief interview, Wray said Basho, the company behind the Riak distributed database and RiakCS cloud store, has huge opportunities before it. He brings with him operational expertise and lauded McCory’s…

After a gas explosion destroyed two buildings in New York on Wednesday morning, a local man launched a DJI Phantom II to film the action. The 3-pound, 4-blade drone captured 30 minutes of footage; here’s a screenshot from the film which shows the city’s bravest at work:

The drone’s owner, 45-year-old Brian Wilson, told the New York Daily News that he normally uses the Phantom II to film real estate or sports events, and that this was the first time he had filmed breaking news. He claims to have launched the drone after receiving permission from the NYPD, and then landed it after the battery depleted; he added the police told him not to fly it anymore.

Meanwhile, an ABC News chopper flying overhead captured shots of Wilson’s drone flying low above the tragedy (I’ve added the arrow):

Wilson’s decision to launch the drone is an excellent example of both…