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Manipulated images might not be too high on your list of the the world’s ills, but they are something that has a surprisingly profound effect on us.

A photoshopped shot of model might entice us to buy something we normally wouldn’t while a manipulated image from a warzone might have a considerable effect on public perception or government policy.

We’ve been trained to accept what we see as being true — or at least more true than what we read or hear — so the effect of the image retouch is often outsized.

Amazon has unveiled an official Ruby SDK for AWS! Amazon.com's Amazon Web Services has been a rip-roaring success since its first publicly-available service, S3 (Simple Storage Storage), was released in 2006.

The sheer size of Apple’s app store makes it difficult for independent developers to stand out from the crowd.