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Topshop pays 140 times as much tax as Google, despite be... less profitable business.

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... missing children on the well-known 404 Not Found pages.

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Huang Qingjun has spent nearly a decade travelling to re ...
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Taking the phonebook to a whole new level
Villagers in Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset got togethe ...
Community book exchange
The iconic and much loved village phonebox was offered t ...

BookLending.com is a website that matches lenders and bo... ebooks.

Designed to connect people with something to deliver…⮮. can deliver it!
Example 1 – A mum is on her way to drop her kids off t ...
Example 2 – A Truckie has an empty backload from Sydne ...

Vittra, the Swedish Free School Organization, has opened... school -- one without classrooms. The school's designers... open environment that encourages exploration and intelle... allowing students to learn in themed learning environmen... Digital med

Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden int... its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest ... evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace ... technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that... gaslighting

LIFX is the smartest light bulb you've ever experienced.... wifi-enabled, energy efficient, multi-colored bulb that ... your iPhone or Android. LIFX gives you unprecedented con... lights, reduces your energy costs, lasts up to 25 years ... amazing ran

Cycell Easyphone
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CyCell uses a printer from the Japanese company Mimaki t ...
Cycell Easyphone

More than 200 schools are using CCTV cameras in toilets ... figures showed today.
A total of 825 cameras were located in the toilets or ch ...

Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, ... the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web... utility and impact on people and nations. It covers 61 d... developing countries, incorporating indicators that asse... economic an

Carrying a posy of bright flowers, Dorthe Frydenlund str...
Mrs Frydenlund is among those pioneering a novel way to ...
Nestling amongst the colourful plants and vases is a sto ...
Mrs Frydenlund's 14-year-old son Nikolai has a smartphon ...
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Intel today announced its intention to actively commerci... Charging Technology (WCT), which lets you charge your sm... from your notebook PC.
WCT was pioneered by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith ...

JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written
entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises ...
tual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-manage ...
and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-ma ...

After a report last week about plagiarism incidences on ... offers free online courses, the startup has added honor ... help keep students honest.

Are some fonts more believable than others? A curious ex... documentary filmmaker Errol Morris suggests as much. Aft... approximately 45,000 unsuspecting readers on nytimes.com... that subjects were more likely to believe a statement wh... in Baskervi

Are there certain typefaces that compel a belief that th... are written in are true?

Lectures are often the least educational aspect of colle... taught college seniors and witnessed how little students... four years in higher education. So, while it’s noble t... are opening their otherwise exclusive lecture content to...
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It's no secret to that our society is getting older. Mor...
The solution, the robotics industry hopes, is technology ...
Japanese Nursebots can lift up elderly patients and brin ...
In recent years, Japanese tech giant Panasonic has creat ...
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Most social networks out there brag about the hundreds o... friends they have online. But, who wants to spend their ... updates from hundreds of millions of "online friends"? Y...
That's where Infinite Monkeys comes in. Our self-service ...
Now, you ca

Imagine 3D printing on such a large scale, using a concr... that could “print” a house in as little as 20 hours.... material can withstand over three times the PSI force of... walls. There can even be larger versions, with multiple ... for use in

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help... interact with the world of data -- including a deep look... device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In a... Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthS... possibiliti

Here’s an amazing eight-minute-long short film we came... art school grads Daniel Lazo and Eran May-raz as a final... the short shows a not-too-unrealistic future wherein we ... with contact lens-like devices that connect us to the cl... from games

Our MOOC model emphasizes creation, creativity, autonomy... networked learning. The Coursera model emphasizes a more... learning approach through video presentations and short ... testing. Put another way, cMOOCs focus on knowledge crea... whereas xMO

This image problem starts at school, according to one te...
"Girls don't see IT as creative. It is that image of the ...
Gender differences become apparent during IT lessons, ev ...