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2011-05-25 14:50:42     SEMIC.EU - The Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe

http://www.semic.eu/semic/view/snav/About_SEMIC.xhtml

SEMIC.EU is a participatory platform and a service by th... Commission that supports the sharing of assets of intero... used in public administration and eGovernment

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2010-11-21 20:24:45     Internet Eyes, CCTV Monitoring

http://interneteyes.co.uk/

Shoplifting is at its highest recorded levels, £4.88 bi... according to the Centre for Retail Research. Internet Ey... designed to combat this rise by detecting these crimes a...
Internet Eyes is an online instant event notification sy ...

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2011-06-03 07:45:37     Of Data Scientists, Big Data, the City and Dancers « Rev Dan Catt's Blog

http://revdancatt.com/...ists-big-data-the-city-and-dancers/

So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to say…
You want a Dancer not a Scientist.

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2012-12-04 08:44:56     Emptyage — Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

http://www.emptyage.com/post/286798.../yes-i-was-hacked-hard

So maybe you saw my Twitter going nuts tonight. Or you s... Twitter account blow up. Or you saw this in AllThingsD. ... DailyDot. Although embarrassing, Twitter was the least o... someone gained entry to my iCloud account, used it to re... devices, an

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2013-02-05 12:24:12     The Internal Memo That Allowed IBM's Female Employees to Get Married - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive.../272832/#...

So were you able to keep your job when you got married?
I did get married on the sly. And then in 1951 they ...
The "law" Kolchin refers to is not so much a law but a c ...
ibm1-784x1024.jpg

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2011-07-08 10:01:51     Radio-frequency identification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification

Some business establishments give customers the option o... RFID-based tab to pay for service, such as the Baja Beac... Barcelona.[114] This has provoked concerns into privacy ... they can potentially be tracked wherever they go by an i... to them.

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2010-10-14 12:31:03     Local Public Data Panel response to Health White Paper | data.gov.uk

http://data.gov.uk/...a-panel-response-to-health-white-paper

The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou...
The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou ...
* * - publish the available data on the Web in whate ...
* ** - make it available as structured data, for exa ...
... stage

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2009-10-30 14:22:23     Swishing - Ethical Fashion, Clothes swapping - Home

http://swishing.org/

The Art of Swishing involves getting your friends togeth... clothes and party at the same time. Every lady must brin...
(Large sacks of designer frocks are also gratefully rece ...
"Save money, save the planet, have a party: swishing eff ...
Lucy Shea,

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2023-12-06 15:28:32     English High Court Decision: AI Inventions are Patentable, David Knight

https://briefings.brownrudnick.com/...entions-are-patentable

the court held that the exclusion was not invoked — s... not “a program for a computer … as such.” The UKIP... issued guidance (available here) confirming that:
“Patent examiners should not object to inventions invo ...

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2011-02-16 10:47:39     Copyright Intellectual Property Form Protection Information

http://www.copyrightprotection.com/history.htm

The First Case in History
The first historic mention of Copyright, which set the u ...
Columcille had taken to visiting monasteries, borrowing ...

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2013-02-09 13:53:44     MPs call for Government to consider ending use of Cloud amid concerns that US authorities can access information - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/...ess-information-8473693.html

The Government should consider stopping sharing intellig... the US and end the use of Cloud computing due to concern... personal information about British citizens can be spied...
The warning comes during a Whitehall drive for governmen ...
US law allo

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2011-07-12 11:21:44     Microchip implant (human) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(human)

The hand of microchip implant hobbyist Amal Graafstra, j... operation to insert an RFID tag. The yellow coloration c... used to disinfect the hand for surgery.

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2009-02-05 13:21:18     Google The Internet Bus Project

http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/landing/internetbus/

The Internet Bus Project is an attempt to educate people... Internet is, and how it may be beneficial to their lives... Internet experience to them through a customised Interne... which will travel to several towns and cities across India.

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2011-05-26 16:28:28     McKinsey & Company - Report - Internet matters: The net’s sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity - May 2011

http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/intern.../index.asp

The Internet's impact on global growth is rising rapidly... accounted for 21 percent of GDP growth over the last fiv... developed countries MGI studied, a sharp acceleration fr... contribution over 15 years. Most of the economic value c... Internet fa

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2015-09-19 18:30:03     Evernote, the first dead unicorn - Business Insider

http://uk.businessinsider.com/...e-first-dead-unicorn-2015-9

The lesson for management teams at other unicorns is cle... Forget worrying about whether you're going to be around ... refocus on making products that people want that will ma...

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2011-05-21 09:33:21     NHS IT project 'has cost billions without delivering ANY benefits' | Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...s-delivering-ANY-benefits.html

The NHS’ controversial project to computerise all pati... cost billions of pounds without delivering any benefits,... damning report.
It warns the project is running years behind schedule an ...

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2011-07-12 11:27:31     This chip makes sure you always buy your round | Science | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...bserver.theobserversuknewspages

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

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2012-05-02 06:52:46     The Crisis of Money and Its Metamorphosis | X.commerce

https://www.x.com/devz.../crisis-money-and-its-metamorphosis

The past several years have not been kind to the world's... working poor. The foundations on which we have built the... commerce—the markets, the banks, and government—have...
Nevertheless, there is one institution that has continue ...
This is the

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2010-07-02 17:20:10     How Best Buy is Using The Semantic Web

http://www.readwriteweb.com/...is_using_the_semantic_web.php

The process of adding RDFa to Best Buy's webpages began ... the company began to look for ways to get more visibilit...
To solve this dilemma, Best Buy gave each store its own ...
Best Buy employees entered information into the blogs ev ...
Best Buy is

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2010-06-28 18:45:49     New Public Sector Transparency Board and Public Data Transparency Principles | data.gov.uk

http://data.gov.uk/...nd-public-data-transparency-principles

The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was establis... Minister, met yesterday for the first time.
The Board will drive forward the Government’s transpar ...

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2013-03-24 14:03:40     How Kickstarter will kill Open Source | London Python developer/AWS devop engineer

https://10kblogger.wordpress.com/...r-will-kill-open-source/

The question of what happens to the surplus is really ir... is one specific project. The idea is interesting. If thi... different software projects, I think we might find more ... the part of developers to implement certain large pieces...
Alternative

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2011-07-25 11:24:17     Anders Behring Breivik: Tunnel vision in an online world | Thomas Hylland Eriksen | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...hring-breivik-norway-extremists

The role of the internet in fragmenting the public spher... subject of some scholarly and journalistic interest, mos... Pariser's excellent The Filter Bubble, which shows how G... and other major actors filter our web searches, updates ... our user pr

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2011-11-11 19:38:29     US court verdict 'huge blow' to privacy, says former WikiLeaks aide | World news | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...rdict-privacy-wikileaks-twitter

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

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2014-12-10 09:45:25     Shanley Kane of Model View Culture Challenges a “Corrupt” Silicon Valley | MIT Technology Review

http://www.technologyreview.com/...itique-of-silicon-valley/

The Valley has bought into the idea of itself as a merit... self-starting, bootstrapping geniuses so much better and... anyone else in the world that they deserve wildly dispro... opportunities for wealth and power. The problem is that ... opposite of

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2013-03-03 08:58:46     Dictionary + algorithm + PoD t-shirt printer + lucrative meme = rape t-shirts on Amazon | I Am Pete Ashton

http://iam.peteashton.com/keep-calm-rape-tshirt-amazon/

The world around us is increasingly governed by these al... annoyingly dumb and some freakishly intelligent. Because... generally mimic decisions that used to be made directly ... tendency to humanise the results and can easily be horri...
Douglass Ru

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2016-10-15 14:39:31     The End of the Second Act of Civic Tech – Medium

https://medium.com/...ond-act-of-civic-tech-2d8d9c766309#...

The world of civic tech has changed radically in the las... of the old bastions of transparency and civic innovation... crumble, shrinking dramatically in both size and scope. ... the future of civic tech will appear radically different... from under

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2023-12-09 08:56:46     EU agrees ‘historic’ deal with world’s first laws to regulate AI | European Union | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...lds-first-laws-to-regulate-ai

The world’s first comprehensive laws to regulate artif... have been agreed in a landmark deal after a marathon 37-... between the European Parliament and EU member states.

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2010-09-16 09:07:18     The Future of Internet Search - Project Syndicate

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/dyson23/English

This all happened a couple of years ago – just before ... search entirely and handed that part of its business ove... Also around that time, Bill Gates uttered one of the sma... has ever said: “The future of search is verbs.” But ...
To me, the

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2012-09-28 10:13:13     New Statesman - Tax avoidance isn't a left or right issue, it's a cancer eating our democracy

http://www.newstatesman.com/...s-cancer-eating-our-democracy

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

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2010-11-19 09:34:57     The real cost of free: a response | Media | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2.../free-online-content

Two months ago I wrote a blog on "media gurus" who charg... promoting "free" as a business model. The blog drew some... responses, with Guardian contributor Cory Doctorow posti... accusing me of not understanding how giving work away fo... promotional

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