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Euro 2012, Google, the Olympics, and the boys in green

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Tracking the Olympics and Euro 2012 on Google - the busy summer ahead for digital sports fans.

The Olympic Stadium, Kiev where the Euro 2012 final will be staged on July 1

Entertainment

Explore Ireland’s Euro 2012 journey Street View style

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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Euro 2012 kicks-off next week with Ireland in the tournament for the first time in 24 years. To help build excitement ahead of its opening, Google has published 360° imagery of all eight Euro 2012 stadiums, including the two stadiums where Ireland take on Croatia, Spain and Italy.

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition screenshot

Gaming

The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition launches, now on Xbox 360

Albertus Valentyn10 years ago

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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition was recently released, adding around 10GB of content to the game - from new cinematics, quests, tweaks, and four hours of extra content, not to mention plenty of in-game bug fixes. The Enhanced Edition is also available on the Xbox 360, finally bringing the Witcher’s story to a dedicated console for the first time.

Twitter vs Facebook in Japan (January 2012)

Social Media

In which country is Twitter more popular than Facebook?

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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Japan is the only country in the world where Twitter has a higher number of monthly unique visitors than Facebook, that’s according to Business Insider quoting comScore data.

Meme

Stunning HDR time-lapse video

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Photographer Patryk Kizny has combined HDR and time-lapse photography to create this stunning short film titled The Chapel. The piece explores the inside of a protestant chapel in Zeliszów, Poland built in 1797 with some great visual effects achieved.

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It is the start of 2022, and with every new year comes the loft ambitions of new year’s resolutions.

If one of your resolutions is to spend less time on your phone, or looking at screens, then you are in the right place, because in this episode we will look at digital detoxes and how you can implement them.

To do this, we are speaking with Andrew Selepak, a Social Media Professor at the University of Florida.

In this episode we discuss what a digital detox is and what technology it usually involves, how a digital detox can be realistically implemented without it negatively impacting our work, or even social connections, and the parallels between digital detoxes and food diets.

Selepak shares why going cold turkey with a digital detox is unlikely to be successful, why vacations are a good setting to implement a partial digital detox, and why turning off notifications and removing social media apps is the best way to start a detox.

He also explains why our use of technology shouldn’t be seen necessarily as an addiction, like a drug, but a tool that needs to be the correct way.

Additionally Selepak shares how a non-self imposed detox from his phone during a trip in Ireland taught him the importance of disconnecting, and how many of us fall into the trap of taking numerous pictures on holiday, with the ambition of posting on social media, instead of experiencing the trip in the present moment.

And finally, we discuss the role meditation can play to help limit our time with technology.