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Here at 4PSA we work around the clock to hone teamwork and take communication to the next level through software. Like the salt and pepper in most cooked foods, VoipNow and Hubgets go together brilliantly. In fact, they might as well pass for a horse and carriage too.
While I was scouring the web for a neat quote to give you guys today, I came across one that speaks of our mission, and our products implicitly. From the movie Fireproof:
It won’t be long before we do away with rotating electric motors in robots. There are much more practical designs to be used (muscle replicas), and scientists are pursuing these designs in what is an actual field of work: robotics. But one new invention may allow us to leap even further.
A team of scientists in China has obtained a liquid metal akin to mercury (but made from gallium, indium, and tin) which ‘eats’ aluminum to move. The process is slightly more complex than that, and it’s all explained in the embedded YouTube clip below.
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It is often said that we lose our innocence when we grow up. While undoubtedly true, this isn’t the only trait we shake off as we venture into adulthood.
Children are innocent not just through their small stature or their inability to judge certain actions, but also through their sincerity. Show a child an ugly painting and he or she will not hesitate to call it just that. In this respect, the late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata trusted the young demographic as a good indicator of the company’s direction.
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nomad
/ˈnəʊmad/
noun
a member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home.
Many things can push you to leave your nest, regardless of time and place. Thousands of years ago people did it out of necessity – to feed their livestock, shy away from cold winters, sell merchandise, hunt, colonize new lands, etc. Today, despite living in cozy apartments surrounded by technology and automation, people still do it.
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As the oil underneath the Earth’s crust continues to run dry, the transportation industry is forced to devise ever-smarter ways to propel their passengers from point A to point B. Speaking of the letter B, Boeing is not wasting any time.
Among the many applications that aim to reinvent the jet engine, Boeing’s latest attempt is nothing short of ambitious. Not only is their ‘Laser-Powered Propulsion System‘ clean and efficient, it also promises to make new inroads into space travel.
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These days, forgetting your phone at home feels like you’re walking around with your hands tied behind your back. Smartphones have become such an instrumental part of our lives that the very thought of losing or damaging it is terrifying. Perhaps then, it is not surprising that we’re putting considerable effort into preventing these things from happening (i.e. proximity sensors, Find My iPhone, protective bumpers, etc.). However, we may be on the cusp of solving at least one of the problems, all thanks to chemistry.
We’ve long heard of self-repairing backs for smartphones. But a self-repairing cracked screens? If it sounds like a speculative headline on our part, I can assure you it’s not.
Today we have a guest post written by Vladut, who is an intern at 4PSA’s Cool Summer Internship. Enjoy!
Even though the week starts on Monday around these parts, for me last week started on Sunday because – enthusiasm. Monday proved to be extremely fast-paced and it was dedicated entirely to us, the interns. We started to know each other a little, learning everyone’s names and forgetting them the next second 🙂 I was quite surprised to see that, despite all the stereotypes and urban legends surrounding software companies, the number of girls was almost equal to the number of guys.
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It’s important to aspire to something. It helps put bread on the table, and it gives us a sense of purpose at the end of the day. Some people keep an agenda, others do something crazy every day. But we all do the things we do with one goal in mind: to be happy.
If there’s one topic you won’t have trouble finding quotes on, it’s happiness. However, few are as truthful to the self as this one:
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This weekend I attempted to make a boomerang out of hard timber. It took a lot of carving and grinding, which led to me to cripple a thumb. Not permanently, but enough to make me consider taking a carpentry course the next time I get creative.
Bludgeoning aside, I forcefully bent the nail upwards. It will go black within the week. If you’re making a face it’s probably because you’ve been there. Point is: my thumb is now useless, and will be for days to come.
I’m sharing my stupidity misfortune because it made me realize an amazing thing when I arrived at work the next day: I’d never used this thumb to type on a computer keyboard. How do I know this for a fact? Let me explain.
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Communication takes many forms. Not just in the different tongues we use, but also in the accents we apply when we open our mouths. Different communities may agree to pronounce things in a manner that may sound natural to them, but peculiar to others. In fact, that’s how many of the existing languages formed over the millennia.
In the late 1800s, George Bernard Shaw made an interesting remark in a music review that looked at the disparate sounds produced by orchestras in Manchester and Lancashire.