Top 10 Villains In Netflix Shows

Some shows are only as good as their villains, and these baddies pack quite the punch. We’re looking at the antagonists that make their Netflix series that much more enjoyable, such as Count Olaf from A Series of Unfortunate Events, Kilgrave from Jessica Jones, The Demogorgon from Stranger Things, Wilson Fisk from Daredevil, and more.

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Luxury Watchmaker Welcomes Smartwatch Competition

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The head of a luxury watch firm says his industry should welcome smartwatches rather than seeing tech firms as a threat.

Jean-Claude Biver, head of several watchmaking firms including Tag Heuer was speaking to the BBC at an industry trade event. He said the likes of Apple, Google and Samsung should be invited to exhibit at such events even though it might upset traditionalists.

Biver takes a straightforward approach to why devices such as the Apple watch should be classed as watches by the industry: “it’s a bracelet that gives you information: hours, minutes, the date.”

While some might fear smartwatches would take business away from manufacturers of expensive wristwatches, Biver argued that they could help the industry in the long term. His logic is that a younger generation that’s always had a phone with the time on it won’t be in the habit of wearing anything on their wrist, but the smartwatch user of today could be the luxury wristwatch user of the future: “Imagine a generation who did not wear any watch. It would be much more difficult for us to sell them something.”

The BBC notes that Biver has a history of responding to technological advancements, having helped the Swiss watch business survive and thrive in the face of cheap Japanese quartz battery watches.

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[Wired]

Apple Proposes Disability Emoji

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Apple has proposed nine new emoji to better represent people with disabilities. It says the selection is based on the quantity of online searches for particular terms.

According to Apple:

The current selection of emoji provides a wide array of representations of people, activities, and objects meaningful to the general public, but very few speak to the life experiences of those with disabilities. At Apple, we believe that technology should be accessible to everyone and should provide an experience that serves individual needs. Adding emoji emblematic to users’ life experiences helps foster a diverse culture that is inclusive of disability.

The nine proposed emoji are:

  • a guide dog with harness
  • a person with a white cane
  • a person making the most popular sign language gesture for deafness
  • an ear with a hearing aid
  • a person in a motorized wheelchair
  • a person in a mechanical wheelchair
  • a mechanical or prosthetic arm
  • a mechanical or prosthetic arm
  • a service dog with vest and leash.

Where appropriate, the proposal also covers different gender and skin tone versions of the emoji.

Apple’s explanation for its choices reflects some of the difficulties of representing different disabilities. For example, it says using a motorized wheelchair to represent somebody who uses a mechanical wheelchair (or vice versa) could misrepresent the nature of their disabilities. Meanwhile having separate emojis for a harnessed dog and one with a leash is designed to distinguish between people whose dog helps with their visual disabilities and people with “hidden disabilities such as Autism, seizures, anxiety, PTSD, etc.”

Apple also noted that the emoji design is limited by the small size at which the icons appear. It says it did consider designs which simply had a cane, wheelchair or hearing aid, but that these weren’t clear and distinctive enough at small scale.

The proposal will now be considered by the Unicode Consortium.