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The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset #Sunrise #Kavadi #Kavadilake #KavadiSunrise #kavadiVillage #nature #Walks #Pune #Photooftheday #PhotoOfTheWeek #Iger #Instapic #Instagramers #Instadaily #Instalife #Instagramhub #Pune #India #Androidography #Weekdays #Hangouts #Morning #GoodMorning (at kavadi)

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The best thing one can do when its raining is to let it rain .. #Rain #Monsoon #Waterlog #Pune #Tweegram #Instalife #Instagramhub #Photooftheday #Igers #Picoftheday #Instadaily #Igdaily #Instagramers#Webstagram #Hashagram #Bestshot #Instapic #Picoftheweek ##Androidography #AndroidInstagram #Twenty20 #Citylife #Raining #Fridays #Fresh #Raindrops (at F.C road)

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#AmanoraMall #AmanoraTownCenter #Movieweekends #Weekends #Hangouts #Timepass #malls #Picoftheweek #Instagramer #Sundays #Pune #Malling #fun #shopping #tweegram #instagood #MH #photooftheday #iphonesia #instamood #igers #instagramhub #picoftheday #instadaily #bestoftheday #igdaily #instagramers #webstagram #all_shots #statigram #hashagram #hashagram4android (at Amanora Mall)

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Getting into the Chistmas Spirit ... (at Baker Street)

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Instagrammers Capture the Magic of Yayoi Kusama

For more photos and videos from the Kusama Exhibition, browse the #kusamaenmalba hashtag and explore the MALBA location page.

Acclaimed Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama brought her life retrospective exhibition, "‘Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Obsession," to Latin America for the first time at Buenos Aires’s Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, popularly known as MALBA (@museomalba). Debuting under its Spanish name, "Obsesión infinita”, Kusama’s retrospective includes polka-dotted trees lining the sidewalk outside of the museum, an all-white room that visitors progressively decorate with colored stickers and a host of art-filled, all-mirrored rooms that reflect visitors into infinity.

Kusama has been a figure in the art world since the 1940s, and her art has taken the forms of writing, painting, collage, sculpture, performance art and even large-scale environmental installations such as her "Pumpkin" on Japan’s Naoshima island.

Kusama’s extremely interactive art pieces make the exhibition particularly friendly for Instagrammers. “Yayoi Kusama: Obsesión infinitia" ends September 16.

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Politics behind INDIAN GRAND PRIX

Since Hungarian GP there are rumour going around about the Indian Grand Prix not happening in 2014,that would be very sad and disappointing to all Formula 1 fans in the country. Hope JP group & Bernie Ecclestone set all politics apart & sort things out,If changing the GP to early part of the reason is what it takes they should do it. It would be hard on JP Group to organize a race in october 2013 and again in March 2014. So if a break is what it takes to reshedule the GP then go for it. Also the decision of the Indian Government (GOI) to try to tax teams on their earnings in India on the basis of proportion of revenues rather that profit is also not popular with teams and Formula 1. It would be very disappointing to see this venture going down,Indian GP has done what others couldn't do

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Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange .. stranger than fiction .. #books #crossword (at Crossword Bookstore)

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Back after sometime..#TrademarkForum (at The Forum Mall)

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Xavi completes perfect game making 100% of his 92 passes against PSG.

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Master Xavi

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Humans feel empathy for robots

fMRI scans show similar brain function when robots are treated the same as humans

From the T-101 to Data from Star Trek, humans have been presented with the fictional dilemma of how we empathize with robots. Robots now infiltrate our lives, toys like Furbies or robot vacuum cleaners bring us closer, but how do we really feel about these non-sentient objects on a human level? A recent study by researchers at the University of Duisburg Essen in Germany found that humans have similar brain function when shown images of affection and violence being inflicted on robots and humans.

Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten, Nicole Krämer, and Matthias Brand of the University of Duisburg Essen, will present their findings at the 63rd Annual International Communication Association conference in London. Rosenthal-von der Pütten, Krämer and Brand conducted two studies. In the first study, 40 participants watched videos of a small dinosaur-shaped robot that was treated in an affectionate or a violent way and measured their level of physiological arousal and asked for their emotional state directly after the videos. Participants reported to feel more negative watching the robot being abused and showed higher arousal during the negative video.

The second study conducted in collaboration with the Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Essen, used functional magnetic-resonance imaging (fMRI), to investigate potential brain correlations of human-robot interaction in contrast to human-human interaction. The 14 participants were presented videos showing a human, a robot and an inanimate object, again being treated in either an affectionate or in a violent way. Affectionate interaction towards both, the robot and the human, resulted in similar neural activation patterns in classic limbic structures, indicating that they elicit similar emotional reactions. However, when comparing only the videos showing abusive behavior differences in neural activity suggested that participants show more negative empathetic concern for the human in the abuse condition.

A great deal of research in the field of human-robot interaction concentrates on the implementation of emotion models in robotic systems. These studies test implementations with regard to their believability and naturalness, their positive influence on participants, or enjoyment of the interaction. But there is little known on how people perceive “robotic” emotion and whether they react emotionally towards robots. People often have problems verbalizing their emotional state or find it strange to report on their emotions in human-robot interactions. Rosenthal-von der Pütten and Krämer’s study utilized more objective measures linked to emotion like physiological arousal and brain activity associated with emotional processing.

“One goal of current robotics research is to develop robotic companions that establish a long-term relationship with a human user, because robot companions can be useful and beneficial tools. They could assist elderly people in daily tasks and enable them to live longer autonomously in their homes, help disabled people in their environments, or keep patients engaged during the rehabilitation process,” said Rosenthal-von der Pütten. “A common problem is that a new technology is exciting at the beginning, but this effect wears off especially when it comes to tasks like boring and repetitive exercise in rehabilitation. The development and implementation of uniquely humanlike abilities in robots like theory of mind, emotion and empathy is considered to have the potential to solve this dilemma.”

“Investigation on Empathy Towards Humans and Robots Using Psychophysiological Measures and fMRI,” by Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten and Nicole Krämer; To be presented at the 63rd Annual International Communication Association Conference, London, England 17-21 June

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Robotics

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Sochi Olympics organizers will have stray dogs, cats killed to clean up city

The stray animals will be exterminated to ensure the safety of visitors and improve the city’s image, Sergei Krivonosov, a government official from Sochi, said in an interview with RBC Daily, a Russian business newspaper.

“It’s obvious that there should be no animals on the streets. We have responsibilities to the international community,” the lawmaker said. “Killing (the animals) is just a faster way to solve this task.” he said.

Story: http://usat.ly/ZAl38B

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For me, Barça is unconditional. Lets just say that I’m playing at Arsenal, at Manchester, at Bayern Munich. I’d constantly be asking myself, “Whats happening at Barça?”  I’d be paying attention to whats going on, who’s playing, what they are doing, how they are doing. I feel Barça. That’s the great difference from the people who don’t feel it. I love this club, I love it. I always say that I will never leave Barça until my career ends. I wont go. I wont go. I’m happy at Barça. Barça, I love it, I feel like its mine. For me it’s unconditional. No loans, no offers. — Xavi Hernandez

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Adipure

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New LFC Wallpaper series by @parishith

Download link: http://www.4shared.com/zip/NpiI92s8/LFC_Primus.html

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Suarezzz

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littlechien  posted this

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Art of the day

[ianbrooks]

Animechs by Robert Chew

The world would be cooler, if not better, place with large animal-like mechas in it. Robert put some insanely meticulous detail into these mobile combat companions, from Barn Owl Recon Units to Kingfisher Snipers, even explaining the mechanical nuances that allow them to move like their counterparts in the nature. You may not be able to “get in the fucking robot”, but when you’ve got a bigass canon, who’s gonna say you can’t ride your combat-ready Grizzly-Mech into battle with the rest of the Robot Bear Cavalry.

Artist: DeviantArt / Blogspot

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Illusions

[techcitement]

BlackBerry Announces More BB10 Devices: Why That's Bad

It has to be asked. Is the company formerly known as RIM actively trying to fail? One would not think so. The high-end flagship Z10 is highly anticipated and the BlackBerry 10 operating system continues to get solid reviews. Techcitement has yet to try it out here, but one trusted source…

http://wp.me/p1XhEM-4PX

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Blackberry to bring more bb10 devices to market