#Google Maps interface

[bloggerkey]

Google Maps Kya hai | Google Maps in Hindi

Google Maps का उपयोग हर दिन करोड़ों लोग अपने दैनिक कामों में करते हैं। चाहे यात्रा करनी हो, किसी नए स्थान के बारे में जानना हो, या अपने नजदीकी व्यवसायों के बारे में जानकारी चाहिए हो, Google Maps हर प्रकार की जानकारी एक क्लिक में उपलब्ध कराता है। यह लेख आपको गूगल मैप के फीचर्स, इसके उपयोग के तरीके, इसकी तकनीकी पहलुओं और इसके फायदे व नुकसान के बारे में विस्तार से जानकारी देगा। 1. Google Maps क्या…

[becuzitisbitter]

When computer scientists gain entry, as they’re doing, into the presidential palaces and mayors’ offices of the world’s largest cities, it’s not so much to set up shop as it is to explain the new rules of the game: government administrations are now competing with alternative providers of the same services who, unfortunately for them, are several steps ahead. Suggesting their cloud as a way to shelter government services from revolutions — services like the land registry, soon to be available as a smartphone application — the authors of The New Digital Age inform us and them: “In the future, people won’t just back up their data; they’ll back up their government.” And in case it’s not quite clear who the boss is now, it concludes: “Governments may collapse and wars can destroy physical infrastructure but virtual institutions will survive.” With Google, what is concealed beneath the exterior of an innocent interface and a very effective search engine, is an explicitly political project. An enterprise that maps the planet Earth, sending its teams into every street of every one of its towns, cannot have purely commercial aims. One never maps a territory that one doesn’t contemplate appropriating. “Don’t be evil!”: let yourself go.

To Our Friends, The Invisible Committee, 2014

[the-changeling-manor]

Genesis

2024. Yes, it’s 2024. It’s only 2024. The future of humanity will be greatly influenced by this decade, both politically and culturally. But a subject that splits the opinions of all, transcending politics and culture, is defined in two words: artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is currently in its infancy.

The ia coupled with chronivac technology could offer infinite possibilities to the users of the software, which is so known to transformation lovers, but yet so impossible to reach. Imagine the chronivac capable of thinking on its own to interpret a prompt, imagine the chronivac capable of analyzing the world around it simply by wandering on the networks, and imagine the chronivac capable of satisfying your desires just with a photo.

It’s just a Dream. Imagination. Unreal.

Isn’t that right? Well.... Don’t be so sure.

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Think about this guy. He’s like you and me. I even think he's one of you who reads these words. Brown hair, thirty years old, young gay, it’s a kind of "mister everyone" in this community of male transformations, which besides will not even be named or represented by a photo, since I know that this guy is you. 

Indeed, every night, he connects on tumblr and reads these stories where people change to become the ones they dream of being, whether they are serious or only in the context of fantasy.

He reads stories, more or less exciting, sometimes redundant because full of clichés, the story you read is also a mountain of clichés, I guess. This ordinary guy is enjoying this moment. He is happy, even though he knows he will never be able to live it.

He is deeply sad.

He receives a notification. Someone who sends him a message on tumblr precisely. He thought it was still one of those bots that redirected to adult sites. Yeah you know, those same fake accounts that pollute youtube with their nude women photos. A real hell.

But this one was different. It had a profile picture of a Greek statue and a curiously long name. His message was accompanied only by a link, a link that immediately caught the attention of our young man since he could read the term “chronivac”.

There was little hope that it was not a dream, or his imagination, or unreal. But reality dominated his thinking. He opened the link 

“Chronivac, Latest Edition” was displayed in the middle of his screen. There was a drop-down menu with different pages on the website. One of them was called “Targets”. Clicking on it, he came across a world map, similar to Google Map but more sober. The site zoomed in on her house before displaying her name at its exact location. Not just her name. The names of her family members were there. Also those of the neighbors. And even of the inhabitants of the neighborhood!

Hope overcame reason. He wanted to believe it. He believed in one of those stories he could read on Tumblr. He pressed his name, and then— This is what he has always dreamed of. An extremely complete interface displaying all its physical or mental characteristics… There were even different options such as the ability to change reality or even use prompts instead of checking elements for transformations.

It was fantastic. He discovered the different menus and saw the image reader option as what the gpt chat could do. Suddenly, he had an idea. He recorded an image of a sexy guy that he followed on twitter and instagram. He added a prompt «Give me the identical physique of the man in the photo, and ONLY his physique». For the rest, he wanted something different. He did not want to become this man, he only wanted his body to serve as the basis for his new life.

For his mind, he deliberately clicked on the «Stupid jock» option, not wanting to  click on ten thousand different options to forge a new personality. Finally, to better change the reality, he launched a second prompt: "I will become a heterosexual Hispanic sportsman, completely dominated by primitive and conservative thoughts. The chronivac will disappear from my life and I will never have access to it again, no matter what.”

This last part could have been replaced by the possibility of making the transformation permanent, but he did not want it. He liked these cliche stories where the protagonist was forced to stay in this new life, a real victim.

His excitement made him want to get through this. He voluntarily locked himself in there. He fell victim to his fantasies. And he loved it. Not clicking on the permanent option would torture him for the rest of his life, leaving him the hope of one day being able to return, even if the prompt made it impossible.

He wanted to explode with joy. He clicked on one last “Adapt Reality” option before pressing "save".

A flash of light blinded him for a few moments. When his body stabilized, he found himself in a basement with sports equipment. "Felipe" he whispered with a Spanish accent. The little voice in his head had just been replaced, he no longer spoke his original language. An uncontrollable desire led him to live his new life as Felipe.

He now had the body of a god. He was incredibly well carved... neither too big nor fat. He measured 1.80m for 85kg. His beautiful pecs bounced, making him laugh. A long stupid laugh that let his intellect disappear, replaced by knowledge about bodybuilding, women and alcohol.

He had little hairs, apparently this gymbro body liked to shave... except under the armpits. He raised his arm to feel this tuft of black and musky hairs... sweat. Yes, it was normal, Felipe was doing his exercises. His whole body was covered in sweat.

Because of the sweat, his underwear was even tighter against his cock. His new penis was now circumcised, just a religious tradition. This cock had met many women in bed.

He also remembered that two friends had to join him for his bodybuilding session, and after that they were going to watch a football match. A good life well stereotyped for an athlete as stupid as Felipe.

He was now a gymbro like the others.

His mind was trapped inside Felipe, inside him, but he was so happy to have fulfilled his fantasy.

It was a dream, the imagination, the unreal come true.

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Please forgive me for the mistakes, I am not fluent in English!

It was a first story, based on the most common clichés in order to do something a little different.

The next stories will be shorter, it was only for the beginning.

I am open to all requests, do not hesitate to offer me images with the source if possible!

The images of the new Felipe come from this X account: @Mariosalvadr

[morisbasement]

apps we use as a system!!!

1) Picrew!

Picrew is an avatar maker with literally thousands upon thousands of different makers!! It has a website (picrew.me) OR an app on google play!!

Pros: It's made completely by users, so it has tons of different art styles!! It's also just really fun ww

Cons: The app can be a bit laggy, and the website has lots of ads for hentai games :(

2) Simply Plural!

It's an app designed for systems!!! SOOO easy to use and the accessible fonts and interface settings are really nice! We use it not just to track fronts but also to increase communication and honestly just allow ourselves to be ourselves.

Pros: Easy interface, you can set it to send notifications to track fronts, no alter limit which is great for polyfrag systems, the chat feature is awesome, and the new custom fields allow us to put in a lot more info

Cons: It supports endos and has misinformation which can be harmful for newly discovered systems trying to learn more about their disorder

3) Mininote

Mininote is a very coquette scrapbook/journaling app! It's really cute and easy to use, plus you can have multiple journals.

Pros: most features are free, with most of the paid ones being just cosmetic. You can customize the journals however you want and even have different passwords on them for different alters, and it lets you have lots of journals. Very simple UI.

Cons: The font might be a bit difficult for some systems to read and it tends to prioritize aesthetics over functionality. It also wasn't designed for systems, so it might have a limit on how many journals one can have. The translation from the app's native language (Chinese) is very patchy and poorly done, so it can be a little difficult to navigate.

4) Twinote

Twinote is very popular among systems! It's basically a Twitter simulator, but the feed and all the user profiles are one account. It still functions mostly the same as Twitter, just only with what you post... like your own personal Twitter!

Pros: Fun to use! It lets you customize EVERYTHING, from the number of followers you have to the likes on any post. Unlimited users, too! It also helps us with our communication and lets us send each other images, whereas the SP chat doesn't.

Cons: Nothing too major. It doesn't give notifications, so you have to manually check for that sort of thing. It's also not made for systems and instead for fun, so the UI is built for singlets.

5) Mindly

Mindly is a mind-mapping and organization tool that we use to map out innerworld!

Pros: Very simple! It's literally just adding and labeling little bubbles! It also allows for layers, which is amazing for polyfrag systems!

Cons: It was built for, you guessed it, singlets. Mind-mapping is, from what I gathered, similar to using a planner, so using the app to LITERALLY map your mind isn't its main purpose. It can also take a while.

6) Matterport

Matterport isa sort of 3d modeling app designed to make schematics of houses and stuff like that. We use it to visually map out our innerworld since we have a hard time visualizing it due to our NVLD!

Pros: It's great for systems trying to create a headspace or who, like us, struggle to maintain it! It's highly customizable and free!

Cons: It was designed for architects and interior designers, making it a bit more difficult to learn. It's 3d modeling app, which can always be hard, and also makes it a bit of a bulky app, which can run down your battery and lag. I believe there's also a lot of paid features, but I may be wrong.

[nyaa]

Pileus Internet Umbrella

Take pictures with an attached camera, upload them to Flickr, download / display a Flickr photostream, and display your position on Google Maps. You control the interface with a flick of the wrist

by Takashi Matsumoto, 2006

[blissfullyunawares]

5 Days of Helping You Outline Your Next Novel

Day 5: Obsidian for Outlining

Find all 5 installments of the mini series: helping you outline your next novel

*I have added a layer of “static” over my screenshots so they are distinctive enough to stand apart from the surrounding text

did you miss this series? here you can find all posts here: [day 1] [day 2] [day 3] [day 4]

Do you use Obsidian?

What is Obsidian?

A note-taking and knowledge management tool that allows you to create and connect notes seamlessly.

Uses a local-first approach, meaning your data is stored on your computer, not the cloud (unless you choose to sync).

Features bidirectional linking, which helps create a non-linear, networked way of organizing ideas—great for brainstorming and outlining.

Why should you use Obsidian?

Flexible & Customizable – Unlike rigid writing apps, you can design your own workflow.

Distraction-Free Writing – Markdown keeps the focus on text without extra formatting distractions.

Ideal for Outlining & Organization – Connect story ideas, characters, and settings effortlessly.

Obsidian for Writing

Outlining

Creating a One Pager

Create a single markdown note for a high-level novel summary.

Use headings and bullet points for clarity.

Link to related notes (e.g., character pages, theme exploration).

Here’s an example of an outline I’m currently using. This is what my website will have on it (and what goals I hope to achieve w my website)

Using the Native Canvas Tool

Use Obsidian’s native Canvas tool to visually outline your novel. (Best on PC)

Create a board with columns for Acts, Chapters, or Story Beats.

Drag and drop cards as the story evolves.

Writing

Why Write Directly in Obsidian?

Minimalist interface reduces distractions.

Markdown-based formatting keeps the focus on words.

No auto-formatting issues (compared to Word or Google Docs).

Why is Obsidian Great for Writing?

Customizable workspace (plugins for word count, timers, and focus mode).

Easy to link notes (e.g., instantly reference past chapters or research).

Dark mode & themes for an optimal writing environment.

Organization in Obsidian

Outlining, Tags, Links

Each chapter, character, important item, and setting can have its own linked note.

Below, for example, you can see the purple text is a linked page directly in my outline.

Use bidirectional linking to create relationships between (story) elements. Clicking these links will automatically open the next page.

Tags can be used for important characters, items, places, or events that happen in your writing. Especially useful for tracking.

Folders for Efficient Storage

Organize notes into folders for Acts, Characters, Worldbuilding, and Drafts.

Use tags and backlinks for quick navigation.

Creating a separate folder for the actual writing and linking next (chapter) and previous (chapter) at the bottom for smooth navigation.

You can also create and reuse your own internal templates!

Spiderweb Map Feature (Graph View)

Visualize connections between characters, plot points, and themes. Below you’ll see the basic mapping of my website development project.

This view can help you spot disconnected (floating) ideas and create bridges to them.

Exporting

Why Export?

Ready to format in another program (Scrivener, Word, Docs, Vellum, etc).

Need a clean version (removing tags, notes, etc) for beta readers or editors.

Creating a backup copy of your work.

When should you export?

Personally, I like to export every 5 chapters or so and update my live version on Google Docs. This allows my family, friends, and beta readers to access my edited work.

After finishing a draft or major revision.

Before sending to an editor or formatting for publication.

Where should you export?

Personally I copy and paste my content from each chapter into a google doc for editing. You may also want to make note of the following export options:

Markdown to Word (.docx) – For editing or submitting.

Markdown to PDF – For quick sharing

Markdown to Scrivener – For those who format in Scrivener.

To Conclude

Obsidian is an invaluable tool for novelists who want a flexible, organized, and distraction-free writing process.

Try setting up your own Obsidian vault for your next novel! Comment below and let me know if this was helpful for you 🫶🏻

your reblogs help me help more ppl 💕

follow along for writing prompts, vocabulary lists, and helpful content like this! <333

✨ #blissfullyunawaresoriginals ✨

[selfaware-bungou-stray-dogs]

So, I had a question about the phone.

1.What happens when GL turns their phone off. Do the BSD cast loose access to the internet when that happens?

2. What happens when GL's phone is permanently damaged and do not work anymore?

3. What happens if reader gets a new phone and they like give their phone to someone else like a hand me down? How would the BSD cast react to that?

4. Follow up to question 3, what happens if reader gets a new phone and doesn't download the BSD game.

Self-Aware! BSD. World Building. Phone

Warning: English is my second language. Some slight yanderish theme.

1. Kind of. They have BSD's World internet, and it will be "cut off" from the Real World Internet, when GL turned off the phone. They won't be able to open new pages, but will be able to see every previously opened page, doesn't matter if GL made an offline copy of the page.

2. First thing, BSD Cast did after gaining access to GL's phone—search for their accounts (starting with Google Account, ending with any random site's account). So, when Reader got a new phone and opened one of the apps/sites/social media/re-enter Google Account, BSD Cast will connect to the new phone.

3. Phone, as in a gadget, doesn't matter to BSD Cast. GL, a person, are the only one, that matters.

Yes, they will feel a tiny bit of hurt, that GL decided to change phone, but, after quick research, they will realize, that it's fine in real world to change your phone. As I mentioned before, BSD Cast will immediately link to new phone via GL's other accounts. And will make a super hard reset on old phone, so new owner will have hard time getting it to work properly.

4. BSD Cast will prepare in advance. They will see, that Mayoi App took many space on the phone, so, they will create few apps (a.k.a. some versions of basic apps in BSD Style). After they get linked to GL's new phone, they will offer a major update, that will replace some basic apps with better ones (and "lighter" in terms of needed space). Notes, interface of which similar to Kunikida's notebook, Calendar with slightly familiar chibis, Maps app with a small dog logo, etc.

While BSD Cast will lose a way to communicate with GL, they still will be connected to them.

Even if GL lose their progress in Mayoi and had to start new game on a new phone, BSD Cast will be connected to them. If GL abandoned one server and start playing on another, BSD Cast will be connected to GL.

Note! While BSD Cast have some yanderish tendencies, they continue to hold into GL's devices not only because they like GL, but also because with link to a gadget, plus a link to a person, will make their job to get to the real world easier.

As I mentioned in previous posts before, BSD Cast want to pay for GL's kindness, preferably, becoming friends with them, but they will step back and leave, if GL ask them to do it.

Can BSD get the real world without link to the gadget and only to GL? Yes, it will simply take more time.

[skullamity]

Need to veeeent.

So we are almost a week without internet. We were with Rogers for TWENTY YEARS, and over those 20 years every interaction we had with Rogers was a huge fucking mess, stemming from the fact that, waaay back when we were in college, if you wanted their normal services AND their cell phone services, it was two separate accounts. Eventually they decided to merge those two accounts and informed us after the fact. Whatever they did to merge them? Completely locked us out of being able to view and pay bills online through Rogers' interface.

Over the years, we would call Rogers for one reason or another (just switching around and then eventually slowly cancelling all services with them except for internet) and every single time they'd be like "so we see you are still receiving paper bills. we are going paperless and phasing this out, so can we get you to pay through the online portal?" and every time we would have to explain that no, we needed paper bills because their broken ass system made even logging into the portal impossible.

Without fail, whatever intrepid techie would say, "don't worry, we will walk you through it, I'll get this fixed!" completely sure that they would be the one to hold our presumably tech illiterate hands though baby's first reset password sequence and then tell us to hit okay and watch the magic happen! Only for us to get the same error message that every other tech over the years got, have us read it out to them, have them be stumped, have them tell me that they have never encountered this before, that their supervisor is also stumped, and how about we just put a pin in that and see if there's a solution in the future! We will keep sending you paper bills for as long as we can (eventually they did stop and we had to have them email our bills to our personal emails directly as a work around solution).

We first encountered this issue when we were 19 years old and living with roomates. We have both recently turned FORTY.

Anyhow, flash to last week. The internet goes out after a day where we had freezing rain, no big deal, it happens. Oddly, I'm not seeing anyone complaining about internet outages in the local Facebook communities, which makes me think, 24 hours later when it still hasn't come on again, that it might just be us. We call Rogers and a nice lady on the phone tries to walk us through cycling the router (a thing we have done in the past 24 hours about 50 times and have been doing for years), and in the process of doing this, we discover that the issue is that our old ass Rogers router has kicked the bucket when she has us unplug it and plug it back in and it just...doesn't turn back on. We tell her the model, she says OH BOY THAT'S ANCIENT, LET ME SEND YOU A NEW ONE! Just let me confirm your address!

And here is where the problems start. You see, a decade ago when we bought this house after living in it and renting it from my inlaws, my inlaws split the property down the middle and sold the other half to someone else. Even though our house shows up on Google maps, even though uber eats and various other delivery services have no problem finding our very real house with our new, updated house number (went from something like 1234 Main St., Unit 2 to 1232 Main St., no unit), Rogers tries to update our address in the system and their system is like...that's not a real house or address. We assure them that it is, and has been, for like a fucking decade. They tell us that they can't send us a new router until they have someone physically come out to our house and confirm that it is 1) real and 2) in their service area.

I need to be so clear that our house is in the exact same place it has been for over a hundred years, and that up until the router broke while tech support was trying to get us to cycle it, we had a 20 year old Rogers account for which we were paying bills! We had internet last week! And they were sitting there telling us that before we can have internet again, they need to send someone physically to our house to be like that's a house all right.

So Shay was like...you know what? Fuck this, please close our account, we are looking into your competitors. The dude on the phone (to be clear was just doing his job, I get that) offered to cut our bill down from $126/month to $50/month if we would reconsider, which only made Shay more pissed, because like...way to tip your fucking hand? Thank you for admitting you overcharge us for a service that you could have offered us better rates on literally any other time over the past 20 years? Fuck you, we aren't doing business with Rogers anymore!

So we close our account and call a competitor who offers us a better plan for $40/month, says they will have a router to us to self set up by today and didn't make us wait on hold for 45 minutes to do any of that.

The router arrives this morning at 9:30am, we set it up, and....no internet. Tech support is like not sure what's happening? So we explain the lot severence again, and they're like...okay so we run off of Rogers system. So we have to call Rogers, and have them send someone out to your house to physically confirm it is a real house, and we have to wait on them to do this because otherwise our system will refuse to believe that your house exists. So now we are waiting on a Rogers tech to be like yeah that's a house!

I just want internet, man. I have work to do, Shay is still trying to apply for jobs. My phone data for the month is almost completely used up and it is only the 6th!

Love that we left this bastard ass company and are STILL haunted by the spectre of their incompetence!

[david-goldrock]

Features I would like to get from my map sites

SHOW ME THE BUS LINES ON THE MAP PLEASE

Let me adjust my walking speed. I walk slowly. I am not fast. If the bus is in 7 minutes, and you say the walk is a 5-minute walk I am not making that bus.

Let me permanently mark places and roads on my map. Like, I want to see where is Ben's house every time I open the city map. I don't want to remember

Let me also permanently mark roads. and other shit. Let me put notes on places like "scary dog lives here" and "closes at 19:00"

MARK THE PATHS WITHOUT SHADES AT ANY SPECIFIC TIME AND LET ME AVOID THEM WHEN GOING ROUND THE CITY I SWEAR THIS WOULD MAKE MY LIFE BETTER

Show an "Is this road accessible by bike/wheelchair" marker.

Show parking space estimation. Also for bikes.

Let me have a separate road system with the bike and walking shortcuts. Also, sweetie, I know it's illegal, but I am driving on the sidewalk, I don't need to go on the direction of the road.

Just have a better interface please? Like, yours genuinely sucks (looking at you Google Maps! what is this abomination?)

Also let me theme the map? I want it to look like parchment please? It would make walking feel cooler.

Google Maps specifically, you already track all my friends' location. Let us share it around? like make groups that can view each other? no need for a new app.

add your own, I am sure there are more

[awingedllama]

Hi I was wondering as a beginner can you what software do you use as a beginner and what videos tutorials to watch to make Sims 4 custom content

hi! i use blender for meshing, blender+photoshop for texturing (photopea.com is a free alternative to photoshop. has all the same features and crashes less), and sims 4 studio.

a video tutorial i found very helpful was this one by illogical sims

mostly, i’d recommend beginner blender tutorials that cover simple things like navigating the 3D viewport, keyboard shortcuts, what options each tab contains, how to bake shadows, how to make a UV map, and so on. the sims 4 studio interface is very user friendly and easy to figure out, whereas blender is just a confusing grey hellscape of dropdown menus the first time you open it up. i had all the shortcuts written down for a couple months before they became muscle memory

if you get stuck or need help, the sims 4 studio forum is the place to go (i’m in the habit of just googling “site:sims4studio.com + whatever problem i’m having). someone’s likely had the same question before. if you can’t find answers there, there’s a great discord for sims modding (Creator Musings). and you can always shoot me a message or ask and i’ll do my best to help you out :)

[kittyplushy]

F/O List!

i know i've already made one on pinned but I wanna make a more comprehensive list with my secondaries n objectum/placeum f/os!

I headcanon all my f/os as lesbians. Do not derail. I am also uncomfortable with posts that talk over my own ships. Do not double tag me w other people who also self ship with my f/os.

MAIN F/OS [Not comfortable sharing/canonxcanon in any form!]

Samantha Strong (BTTWNS)

Lesley (DHMIS)

SECONDARY F/OS [Not also comfortable since they're personal but they're objectums]

Cubao Expo [I imagine her as humanoid and as a spirit. You should visit her when you're in Manila!]

Google Maps [Humanoid as well but also. I dunno the interface and the app make me deeply ill and nostalgic.]

Illuminated Woman/Polaris [The star or rather the idea of a star if it mimicked the human form. She rarely speaks and only copies human gestures but she shapeshifts into the form or appearance of her holder's crush or yearned one!!]

[alanshemper]

[23 Oct 2024]

Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual people can all be monitored without a warrant.

On a computer screen a map shows the movements of smartphones around the globe. Zooming into an abortion clinic in the south of the United States, the online tool shows more than 700 red dots over the clinic itself, each representing a phone, and by extension, a person. 

The tool, called Locate X and made by a company called Babel Street, then narrows down to the movements of a specific device which had visited the clinic. This phone started at a residence in Alabama in mid-June. It then went by a Lowe’s Home Improvement store, traveled along a highway, went past a gas station, visited a church, crossed over into Florida, and then stopped at the abortion clinic for approximately two hours. They had only been to the clinic once, according to the data. 

The device then headed back, and crossed back over into Alabama. The tool also showed their potential home, based on the high frequency at which the device stopped there. The tool clearly shows this home address on its map interface.

In other words, someone had traveled from Alabama, where abortion is illegal after the June 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, to an abortion clinic in Florida, where abortion is limited but still available early in a pregnancy. Based on the data alone, it is unclear who exactly this person is or what they were doing, whether they were receiving an abortion themselves, assisting someone seeking one, or going to the clinic for another reason. But it would be trivial for U.S. authorities, some of which already have access to this tool, to go one step further and unmask this or other abortion clinic visitors. 

[...]

The videos also show that while Apple and Google have taken steps either to stymie the flow of location data in general, or remove sensitive locations like abortion clinics from their own banks of data, the highly sensitive movements of visitors to clinics or essentially any other location are still exposed on a massive scale and finding their way into tools used by U.S. law enforcement. Through a complex data supply chain involving apps or ads on a phone, peoples’ movements are included in Locate X as a side-product of the mobile advertising system.

And all of this tracking is possible without a warrant.

[digitaldetoxworld]

Data Visualization: Transforming Data into Insight

 In an technology wherein information is produced at an remarkable tempo, the ability to extract significant insights is extra vital than ever. Data visualization plays a vital function on this procedure, enabling individuals and corporations to understand complex statistics sets, pick out trends, and communicate findings effectively. By converting abstract numbers into intuitive visuals, information visualization bridges the gap among uncooked data and human cognition, turning complexity into readability.

Data Visualization In Research 

The Importance of Data Visualization

Data visualization is the graphical illustration of information and facts. By the use of visible elements like charts, graphs, and maps, statistics visualization tools make it less difficult to see and understand styles, trends, and outliers in facts. Its importance lies in numerous key areas:

Improved Understanding: Visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than textual content by way of the human mind. Graphs and charts can screen insights that would pass omitted in spreadsheets.

Enhanced Communication: Well-crafted visualizations allow statistics to be shared in a manner that’s available to a broader audience, no longer simply records analysts or statisticians.

Data-Driven Decision Making: In enterprise, governments, and medical research, visualizations support selection-making via without a doubt showing the implications of various statistics tendencies.

Pattern and Anomaly Detection: They help users quick become aware of deviations, spikes, or drops in data, which could suggest possibilities or threats.

Types of Data Visualization

Data visualization encompasses a big selection of techniques, each applicable to precise types of records and analytical desires. Some of the most commonly used sorts include:

1. Bar Charts

Bar charts are best for comparing quantities throughout classes. They are simple however effective for displaying differences among agencies.

2. Line Graphs

Often used to music changes over time, line graphs display tendencies and fluctuations, making them a fave for time-series information.

3. Pie Charts

 They’re satisfactory for simple, clear percent facts.

4. Histograms

Histograms display the distribution of a dataset, making them beneficial for understanding records spread, crucial tendency, and frequency.

5. Heat Maps

Heat maps use colour gradients to indicate value depth throughout two dimensions. 

6. Scatter Plots

Scatter plots are used to pick out relationships between  variables, often revealing correlations or clusters in facts.

7. Box Plots

Box plots show the distribution of a dataset thru its quartiles, highlighting medians, variability, and ability outliers.

8. Geospatial Maps

These visualizations display facts associated with geographic regions and are extensively utilized in demographic research, environmental tracking, and logistics.

9. Dashboards

Dashboards integrate multiple visualizations into one interface, supplying a actual-time assessment of key metrics and overall performance signs.

Tools for Data Visualization

A huge range of tools is to be had for growing effective statistics visualizations.  Popular alternatives encompass:

Tableau: A leading platform for interactive, shareable dashboards with drag-and-drop functions.

Power BI: Microsoft's enterprise analytics tool with sturdy integration into the Office atmosphere.

Google Data Studio: A unfastened tool for developing customizable reports the use of Google records sources.

Ggplot2: A effective R package for constructing state-of-the-art plots the use of the grammar of snap shots.

Each device gives distinctive competencies depending at the user’s technical information, information complexity, and desired results.

Best Practices in Data Visualization

Creating effective facts visualizations requires more than just technical skill. It includes an information of design ideas, cognitive psychology, and storytelling. Here are key exceptional practices:

1. Know Your Audience

Tailor the visualization to the information stage and pursuits of your target market. What a statistics scientist unearths intuitive is probably complicated to a business executive.

2. Choose the Right Chart

Using an inappropriate chart kind can deceive or confuse the viewer. For instance, a line chart ought to not be used for specific information.

Three. Simplify and Clarify

Avoid muddle. Focus on essential statistics and put off unnecessary elements like immoderate gridlines, decorative snap shots, or redundant labels.

Four. Use Color Thoughtfully

Color can enhance know-how but additionally lie to if used improperly. Stick to a consistent color scheme and use contrasts to highlight key points.

5. Tell a Story

Effective facts visualizations guide the viewer through a story. Highlight tendencies, anomalies, or correlations that support your message.

6. Maintain Integrity

Never manipulate axes or distort scales to magnify findings. Ethical visualization ensures accurate illustration of statistics.

Real-World Applications

Data visualization is applied in nearly each region, transforming industries through stepped forward insight and communication.

1. Business Analytics

In commercial enterprise, visualization tools assist in monitoring sales, client behavior, supply chain efficiency, and extra. 

2. Healthcare

In medicinal drug and public health, visualizations are crucial for tracking disorder outbreaks, affected person records, and treatment results. For example, COVID-19 dashboards performed a main function in information the pandemic's unfold.

3. Finance

Financial analysts use records visualization to recognize market tendencies, examine investment overall performance, and check chance.

Four. Education

Educators and researchers use visualization to track pupil performance, perceive mastering gaps, and gift studies findings.

Five. Government and Policy

Policymakers use visible facts to understand social trends, aid allocation, and financial overall performance. 

6. Journalism

Data journalism is growing hastily. Visual stories on topics like weather change, election results, or social inequality use charts and infographics to inform and engage readers.

Challenges and Limitations

Despite its electricity, facts visualization isn't with out demanding situations:

Data Quality: Inaccurate or incomplete information can lead to deceptive visuals.

Over-Simplification: Trying to make information too easy can lead to lack of nuance or important info.

Misinterpretation: Poor design selections or biased displays can cause audiences to draw wrong conclusions.

Tool Limitations: Not all equipment aid the extent of customization or interactivity wished for unique projects.

Overcoming these demanding situations requires a mix of technical talent, area information, and moral responsibility.

The Future of Data Visualization

The future of statistics visualization is increasingly interactive, actual-time, and AI-assisted. Emerging traits include:

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR): Immersive visualizations permit users to explore records in three-dimensional environments.

Machine Learning Integration: Algorithms can now endorse or even vehicle-generate visualizations based on the information furnished.

Collaborative Platforms: Teams can now work collectively in actual time on visualization dashboards, improving communique and agility.

These advancements will hold to make records greater accessible and insightful throughout all domain names.

Difference Between  Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) 

What Is Data Analysis In Research 

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How AI & Machine Learning Are Changing UI/UX Design

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are revolutionizing UI/UX design by making digital experiences more intelligent, adaptive, and user-centric. From personalized interfaces to automated design processes, AI is reshaping how designers create and enhance user experiences. In this blog, we explore the key ways AI and ML are transforming UI/UX design and what the future holds.

For more UI/UX trends and insights, visit Pixelizes Blog.

AI-Driven Personalization

One of the biggest changes AI has brought to UI/UX design is hyper-personalization. By analyzing user behavior, AI can tailor content, recommendations, and layouts to individual preferences, creating a more engaging experience.

How It Works:

AI analyzes user interactions, including clicks, time spent, and preferences.

Dynamic UI adjustments ensure users see what’s most relevant to them.

Personalized recommendations, like Netflix suggesting shows or e-commerce platforms curating product lists.

Smart Chatbots & Conversational UI

AI-powered chatbots have revolutionized customer interactions by offering real-time, intelligent responses. They enhance UX by providing 24/7 support, answering FAQs, and guiding users seamlessly through applications or websites.

Examples:

Virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant.

AI chatbots in banking, e-commerce, and healthcare.

NLP-powered bots that understand user intent and sentiment.

Predictive UX: Anticipating User Needs

Predictive UX leverages ML algorithms to anticipate user actions before they happen, streamlining interactions and reducing friction.

Real-World Applications:

Smart search suggestions (e.g., Google, Amazon, Spotify).

AI-powered auto-fill forms that reduce typing effort.

Anticipatory design like Google Maps estimating destinations.

AI-Powered UI Design Automation

AI is streamlining design workflows by automating repetitive tasks, allowing designers to focus on creativity and innovation.

Key AI-Powered Tools:

Adobe Sensei: Automates image editing, tagging, and design suggestions.

Figma AI Plugins & Sketch: Generate elements based on user input.

UX Writing Assistants that enhance microcopy with NLP.

Voice & Gesture-Based Interactions

With AI advancements, voice and gesture control are becoming standard features in UI/UX design, offering more intuitive, hands-free interactions.

Examples:

Voice commands via Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa.

Gesture-based UI on smart TVs, AR/VR devices.

Facial recognition & biometric authentication for secure logins.

AI in Accessibility & Inclusive Design

AI is making digital products more accessible to users with disabilities by enabling assistive technologies and improving UX for all.

How AI Enhances Accessibility:

Voice-to-text and text-to-speech via Google Accessibility.

Alt-text generation for visually impaired users.

Automated color contrast adjustments for better readability.

Sentiment Analysis for Improved UX

AI-powered sentiment analysis tools track user emotions through feedback, reviews, and interactions, helping designers refine UX strategies.

Uses of Sentiment Analysis:

Detecting frustration points in customer feedback.

Optimizing UI elements based on emotional responses.

Enhancing A/B testing insights with AI-driven analytics.

Future of AI in UI/UX: What’s Next?

As AI and ML continue to evolve, UI/UX design will become more intuitive, adaptive, and human-centric. Future trends include:

AI-generated UI designs with minimal manual input.

Real-time, emotion-based UX adaptations.

Brain-computer interface (BCI) integrations for immersive experiences.

Final Thoughts

AI and ML are not replacing designers—they are empowering them to deliver smarter, faster, and more engaging experiences. As we move into a future dominated by intelligent interfaces, UI/UX designers must embrace AI-powered design methodologies to create more personalized, accessible, and user-friendly digital products.

Explore more at Pixelizes.com for cutting-edge design insights, AI tools, and UX trends.

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2. Writing Set Up: Where to Write Your Draft

Before you even start writing, you’ll need to find a writing program/medium you feel comfortable working with. 

I promise you—from start to finish—you’ll look at your draft for a couple of hours at minimum, so I suggest you choose a program/medium that aligns with your individual needs. Now it’s time for you to identify what those needs might be. 

Here are some options:

Creativity strikes while you’re cuddled up in bed or on your commute to work? 

Try writing on your phone/tablet (unless you’re the one driving, of course!)—you can use pre-installed apps like Pages (iOS) or your Notes/Memo app. You can also download free writing applications like Google Docs. Google Docs works on and offline on basically any mobile device, which is great for when you’re on the go! 

You prefer writing/typing on a computer? 

There are many desktop writing programs like LibreOffice (free for Windows, Mac and Linux), MS Word (needs to be purchased/subscription-based), countless online text editors or the browser version of Google Docs. 

You need to physically feel the words flowing through your body? 

Well, imagine you’re a classic author and write them down by hand on generously perfumed paper (preferably with royal blue ink)! Of course, you can also use Post-it notes or that coffee-stained notebook from 2013. Regular paper will do, too, though it’s obviously not as cool. 

Of course, there are many more options to choose from, but since you’re just starting out, I suggest you try free and more readily available programs first. Everything has its pros and cons, but digital writing is generally pretty clean-cut and saves you the trouble of digitising hand-written drafts (which you’ll need to do if you want to share your writing online! Unless you want to share scans of your beautiful handwritten writing, of course!). 

But before you settle for one (or more!) program/media of your choice, you might want to consider a few things: 

Is your writing easily accessible to you? → Can you add to your draft whenever and wherever creativity strikes? 

Does your writing program save your progress automatically? → You don’t want to lose hours upon hours of work because you forgot to save your progress! 

Is your writing secure? → Is your writing uploaded to a cloud? Will you still be able to access your writing if your computer crashes or you lose your login data/ phone/notebook? Can you easily create external backups of your files?

It really doesn’t matter what you need to write down at this early point. Be it an idea, rough outline, dialogue, stream of consciousness, mind map or a finished draft—you just want your entire writing process to happen in a secure, accessible location that you feel confident working in. There is no perfect writing program; whatever program works best for you is the best program for you! 

For example: 

I almost exclusively write on Google Docs since it meets all my personal writing needs: It’s a free cloud service that syncs my files all across my devices (phone, laptop, tablet) regardless of where I am. It has an intuitive interface with all the basic writing/formatting tools I need. 

Once a month, I download my most recent drafts as “.docx”-files and back them up on an external hard drive—so even if I can’t, for whatever reason, access my Google Docs account, my files are still secured in a different location. 

Sometimes, I make use of handwritten notes, too—though I keep losing them or can’t decipher my handwriting…This seems minuscule or even funny, but it’s hard to come back to an idea when you’ve literally lost the physical manifestation of it! 

Next: The Idea: Coming Up With and Developing Your Idea (with examples)

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A3 Ultra VMs With NVIDIA H200 GPUs Pre-launch This Month

Strong infrastructure advancements for your future that prioritizes AI

To increase customer performance, usability, and cost-effectiveness, Google Cloud implemented improvements throughout the AI Hypercomputer stack this year. Google Cloud at the App Dev & Infrastructure Summit:

Trillium, Google’s sixth-generation TPU, is currently available for preview.

Next month, A3 Ultra VMs with NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs will be available for preview.

Google’s new, highly scalable clustering system, Hypercompute Cluster, will be accessible beginning with A3 Ultra VMs.

Based on Axion, Google’s proprietary Arm processors, C4A virtual machines (VMs) are now widely accessible

AI workload-focused additions to Titanium, Google Cloud’s host offload capability, and Jupiter, its data center network.

Google Cloud’s AI/ML-focused block storage service, Hyperdisk ML, is widely accessible.

Trillium A new era of TPU performance

Trillium A new era of TPU performance is being ushered in by TPUs, which power Google’s most sophisticated models like Gemini, well-known Google services like Maps, Photos, and Search, as well as scientific innovations like AlphaFold 2, which was just awarded a Nobel Prize! We are happy to inform that Google Cloud users can now preview Trillium, our sixth-generation TPU.

Taking advantage of NVIDIA Accelerated Computing to broaden perspectives

By fusing the best of Google Cloud’s data center, infrastructure, and software skills with the NVIDIA AI platform which is exemplified by A3 and A3 Mega VMs powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs it also keeps investing in its partnership and capabilities with NVIDIA.

Google Cloud announced that the new A3 Ultra VMs featuring NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs will be available on Google Cloud starting next month.

Compared to earlier versions, A3 Ultra VMs offer a notable performance improvement. Their foundation is NVIDIA ConnectX-7 network interface cards (NICs) and servers equipped with new Titanium ML network adapter, which is tailored to provide a safe, high-performance cloud experience for AI workloads. A3 Ultra VMs provide non-blocking 3.2 Tbps of GPU-to-GPU traffic using RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) when paired with our datacenter-wide 4-way rail-aligned network.

In contrast to A3 Mega, A3 Ultra provides:

With the support of Google’s Jupiter data center network and Google Cloud’s Titanium ML network adapter, double the GPU-to-GPU networking bandwidth

With almost twice the memory capacity and 1.4 times the memory bandwidth, LLM inferencing performance can increase by up to 2 times.

Capacity to expand to tens of thousands of GPUs in a dense cluster with performance optimization for heavy workloads in HPC and AI.

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which offers an open, portable, extensible, and highly scalable platform for large-scale training and AI workloads, will also offer A3 Ultra VMs.

Hypercompute Cluster: Simplify and expand clusters of AI accelerators

It’s not just about individual accelerators or virtual machines, though; when dealing with AI and HPC workloads, you have to deploy, maintain, and optimize a huge number of AI accelerators along with the networking and storage that go along with them. This may be difficult and time-consuming. For this reason, Google Cloud is introducing Hypercompute Cluster, which simplifies the provisioning of workloads and infrastructure as well as the continuous operations of AI supercomputers with tens of thousands of accelerators.

Fundamentally, Hypercompute Cluster integrates the most advanced AI infrastructure technologies from Google Cloud, enabling you to install and operate several accelerators as a single, seamless unit. You can run your most demanding AI and HPC workloads with confidence thanks to Hypercompute Cluster’s exceptional performance and resilience, which includes features like targeted workload placement, dense resource co-location with ultra-low latency networking, and sophisticated maintenance controls to reduce workload disruptions.

For dependable and repeatable deployments, you can use pre-configured and validated templates to build up a Hypercompute Cluster with just one API call. This include containerized software with orchestration (e.g., GKE, Slurm), framework and reference implementations (e.g., JAX, PyTorch, MaxText), and well-known open models like Gemma2 and Llama3. As part of the AI Hypercomputer architecture, each pre-configured template is available and has been verified for effectiveness and performance, allowing you to concentrate on business innovation.

A3 Ultra VMs will be the first Hypercompute Cluster to be made available next month.

An early look at the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72

Google Cloud is also awaiting the developments made possible by NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 GPUs, and we’ll be providing more information about this fascinating improvement soon. Here is a preview of the racks Google constructing in the meantime to deliver the NVIDIA Blackwell platform’s performance advantages to Google Cloud’s cutting-edge, environmentally friendly data centers in the early months of next year.

Redefining CPU efficiency and performance with Google Axion Processors

CPUs are a cost-effective solution for a variety of general-purpose workloads, and they are frequently utilized in combination with AI workloads to produce complicated applications, even if TPUs and GPUs are superior at specialized jobs. Google Axion Processors, its first specially made Arm-based CPUs for the data center, at Google Cloud Next ’24. Customers using Google Cloud may now benefit from C4A virtual machines, the first Axion-based VM series, which offer up to 10% better price-performance compared to the newest Arm-based instances offered by other top cloud providers.

Additionally, compared to comparable current-generation x86-based instances, C4A offers up to 60% more energy efficiency and up to 65% better price performance for general-purpose workloads such as media processing, AI inferencing applications, web and app servers, containerized microservices, open-source databases, in-memory caches, and data analytics engines.

Titanium and Jupiter Network: Making AI possible at the speed of light

Titanium, the offload technology system that supports Google’s infrastructure, has been improved to accommodate workloads related to artificial intelligence. Titanium provides greater compute and memory resources for your applications by lowering the host’s processing overhead through a combination of on-host and off-host offloads. Furthermore, although Titanium’s fundamental features can be applied to AI infrastructure, the accelerator-to-accelerator performance needs of AI workloads are distinct.

Google has released a new Titanium ML network adapter to address these demands, which incorporates and expands upon NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NICs to provide further support for virtualization, traffic encryption, and VPCs. The system offers best-in-class security and infrastructure management along with non-blocking 3.2 Tbps of GPU-to-GPU traffic across RoCE when combined with its data center’s 4-way rail-aligned network.

Google’s Jupiter optical circuit switching network fabric and its updated data center network significantly expand Titanium’s capabilities. With native 400 Gb/s link rates and a total bisection bandwidth of 13.1 Pb/s (a practical bandwidth metric that reflects how one half of the network can connect to the other), Jupiter could handle a video conversation for every person on Earth at the same time. In order to meet the increasing demands of AI computation, this enormous scale is essential.

Hyperdisk ML is widely accessible

For computing resources to continue to be effectively utilized, system-level performance maximized, and economical, high-performance storage is essential. Google launched its AI-powered block storage solution, Hyperdisk ML, in April 2024. Now widely accessible, it adds dedicated storage for AI and HPC workloads to the networking and computing advancements.

Hyperdisk ML efficiently speeds up data load times. It drives up to 11.9x faster model load time for inference workloads and up to 4.3x quicker training time for training workloads.

With 1.2 TB/s of aggregate throughput per volume, you may attach 2500 instances to the same volume. This is more than 100 times more than what big block storage competitors are giving.

Reduced accelerator idle time and increased cost efficiency are the results of shorter data load times.

Multi-zone volumes are now automatically created for your data by GKE. In addition to quicker model loading with Hyperdisk ML, this enables you to run across zones for more computing flexibility (such as lowering Spot preemption).

Developing AI’s future

Google Cloud enables companies and researchers to push the limits of AI innovation with these developments in AI infrastructure. It anticipates that this strong foundation will give rise to revolutionary new AI applications.

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