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1. SketchUp is a 3D Modeling software with a variety of add-on tools that solves typical 3D Modeling problems. Choose between SketchUp Pro 2018 – Commercial License for Single User (Price starts at P 38,152.17) for commercial purpose without expiration or SketchUp Pro Student License – Single User (Price starts at P 2,941.18), a license designed for students and with a one-year expiration date. Fun and easy to use, SketchUp also lets you turn models into professional 2D drawing sets with the help of its Layout feature. It comes with the biggest library of free 3D Models that you can use for your designs.

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There’s plenty of technology out there, but how do you pick the hardware and software that will work best for you? Here are some tried and tested solutions from our sponsors at WeSellIT.ph, the people who know tech.

1. If you do design and drafting, AutoCAD is your friend. The computer-aided design program for 2-D and 3-D design and drafting improves design quality and increases productivity. This intuitive drafting software includes a complete set of drawing, editing, annotation documentation and migration tools for drafters and designers. Prices start at P 14,480.00.

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3. The Scanpartner SP1120 20ppm scanner from Fujitsu comes with convenient, flexible and simple button routines to secure digital images. The SP Series features a simple operation panel with only two buttons (Scan/Stop and Power), and software-enabled push button management. Price starts at P 22,099.00.

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From our friends at Nexus:

On 26 October, Nexus celebrated the topping-off of the Nexus Center, the new headquarters of Nexus Technologies. The new HQ is along Metropolitan Avenue in Makati City. By early 2019, the entire Nexus and Nexus subsidiary bneXt will move to the 11-storey Art Deco building with eight floors of office and commercial spaces and conference facilities, plus three floors of parking.

The most effective forms of censorship today involve meddling with trust and attention, not muzzling speech itself. As a result, they don’t look much like the old forms of censorship at all. They look like viral or coordinated harassment campaigns, which harness the dynamics of viral outrage to impose an unbearable and disproportionate cost on the act of speaking out. They look like epidemics of disinformation, meant to undercut the credibility of valid information sources. They look like bot-fueled campaigns of trolling and distraction, or piecemeal leaks of hacked materials, meant to swamp the attention of traditional media.

Read It’s the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech by Zeynep Tufekci in Wired. Then read the entire issue: Free Speech, Tech Turmoil, and the New Censorship.

Update: Saffy has recovered fully and is eating twice as much as she used to.

Saffy in her carrier

I’ve just read this inspiring investigative report on the Online Cat-Industrial Complex, and I’m thinking of starting a new career as a feline interpreter. Having lived with cats for 19 years, I have figured out what their facial expressions, sounds, tail positions, ear angles, kneading, poop placement and other nonverbal cues mean.
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So there you are, driving to school or work or whatever when your phone buzzes. “I’ll just look at my phone for one second,” you think. “It will only be a second and I should be fine—right?” Wrong.

Let’s say you are traveling at some speed v and you take just one second to glance at your phone. That is one second that you are not looking at the road. What happens during that one second? First, let me define average velocity (in one dimension—I add that because I hate being technically wrong).

In this definition, ?x represents the change in position and ?t represents the time interval. Please stop saying velocity is distance over time—that is only sometimes true. In this case, I know the time interval is one second. If I solve this equation for the change in position, I get:

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