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The Twitter users "voluntarily" turned over the internet... when they signed up for an account and relinquished an e...
"Petitioners knew or should have known that their IP inf ...
The fight comes amid widening concerns about online priv ...
"I want eve

So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now.
It's a lot of this sort of thing.
As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Futur ...
My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from ...
... or anything. I just hope to suggest

I first came across the phrase social graph in 2007, in ...
The idea of representing relationships between people as ...
At the time he wrote, Fitzpatrick had two points to make ...
Fitzpatrick subsequently went to work for Google, and hi ...
... ith the

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While we’re used to seeing and hearing content on the ... it has never really had much of a look in. That changes ... a cool new product from London’s Mint Digital Foundry.
Olly is a USB-powered device which takes events on the I ...

86th Birthday Rage

HG Wells addresses the British Association Conference on... 'Science and the Citizen'. In typical provocative style,... medium of the newspaper as dead and the art of journalis... He claims that reports in newspapers are unreliable and ... people migh

A new iPad app from Yahoo can recognize any TV show by l... audio, and automatically serve up related Web content, s... related to a news broadcast or play-by-play stats for a ...

Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Ha...
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Members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous who threa ...
... ves would almost certainly be targeted by rival cartels.

So, why go free? No, we haven’t decided to become a no... we’re not just super-nice. What we are is ambitious. A... with and talked with many people in the Pachube communit... they’re ambitious too.
The “Internet of Things” is a big idea (tho

Getting ever closer to the Matrix: Augmented Projectors ...
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On Monday, we wrote about what Microsoft is dubbing the ...
Today, Steve Clayton, who highlights interesting company ...
In the video above, Clayton highlights a project b

Green shoots of linked (open) data around news
Friday, October 28, 2011 at 5:31PM
Based on Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyg ...
A couple of weeks ago Justin and I attended an event hos ...
... Matthew Shorter

HaptiMap, Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps a... Services, is a project which receives financial support ... Commission in the Seventh Framework Programme, under the...
If you are walking or cycling, and don’t want to (or a ...
The HaptiMa

DEATH IS A PART OF LIFE AND LIFE HAS (TO AN EXTENT) BECO...
Our increasing digitality means that we will increasingl ...
Held in the inspiring setting of the Tropenmuseum’s ex ...
Thus stimulating a reconsideration of how death, mournin ...

Last summer, I deleted my Dropbox account after the comp... horrifying security breach. This week, I reluctantly ope... account. Within minutes, I received a message from Dropb... their back-end processes are still problematic. Here’s... concerned.

Multi-touch revolutionised user interfaces, and, if Noki... their way, a mobile device that's sensitive to how it's ... be the next revolution.
At the Nokia World show, the Finnish mobile phone maker ...
While it was a real computing device with a real

A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be... master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shas... father of four is now engaged in a full-time search for ...

Mass panic and hysteria swept the United States on the e... 1938, when an all-too-realistic radio dramatisation of T... Worlds sent untold thousands of people into the streets ...
The radio show was so terrifying in its accounts of inva ...
Or, more ac

Time zones sometimes seem positively eccentric, affected... political, geographical and social changes in the real w...
But as irregular as they are, if you want to divide the ...
Our science reporter Rebecca Morelle has been finding ou ...

Visualizing the "super entity." Courtesy: New Scientist
Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute o ...
They discovered that global corporate control has a dist ...

A newly discovered piece of malicious code dubbed Duqu i... to the notorious Stuxnet worm that damaged Iran's nuclea... centrifuges last year. Although it has no known target o... the stage for more industrial and cyberwar attacks, expe...

Assistive Technologies empower individuals to accomplish... not be able to do otherwise. Unfortunately, a large perc... Technology devices that are purchased (35% or more) end ... abandoned [7,10], leaving many people with Assistive Tec... inappropria

Diffusion of Innovations is a theory that seeks to expla... what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultur... a professor of rural sociology, popularized the theory i... Diffusion of Innovations. He said diffusion is the proce... innovation

Rogers' bell curve
The technology adoption lifecycle model describes the ad ...
The demographic and psychological (or "psychographic") p ...
The report summarised the categories as:
... , had small farms and capital, oldest and least educated

Everett M. Rogers is widely known as the inventor of the... Innovation” theory from his research on how farmers ad... innovations. After pursuing a degree in agriculture, Rog... in Sociology and Statistics at Iowa State University (19...
Rogers revi

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ABU DHABI // A dramatic fall in traffic accidents this w... directly linked to the three-day disruption in BlackBerr...
In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from averag ...