Fred Benenson is raising funds for an online tool that could translate even complex English sentences into emoji. Unlike other efforts in this vein, Benenson's "Emoji Translation Project" won't just match keywords to their equivalent symbols and sub the symbols in. Instead, it will work much like Google's high-powered translation engine.
The study, published Thursday in journal Science, found that extinction risks were highest in South America, Australia and New Zealand, and risks did not vary by taxonomic group. In South America, the most vulnerable region, 23 percent of species may face extinction.
Accessible only by boat, Playa Cativo Lodge offers rustic luxury and surprisingly sophisticated cuisine in the middle of an unspoiled rain forest far from civilization.
Culture Minister Elizabeth Fonseca told La Nación that 3,400 tickets to the rescheduled show would be distributed free among the residents of AserrÃ, Desamparados and Acosta — the three communities where the 2015 International Arts Festival's main events were supposed to take place. Another 1,800 will be put up for sale, the daily reported.
According to the National Catholic Reporter, the pope also said it was "not true" and an "insult" to suggest that women's rights movements should take the blame for declining marriage rates. Doing so "is a form of chauvinism that always wants to control the woman," Francis said.
Nine years after the site launched, and two years after investors began demanding user growth, Twitter seems to have realized what lots of hardcore users learned the hard way long ago: that the great hallmark of Twitter, the unfiltered real-time feed, is psychologically untenable.
The Public Services Regulatory Authority found that the state-owned oil refinery improperly used public funds to pay for expenses like airline tickets and professional services at the refinery expansion project in Limón.
