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Broken sleep affects the ability to build memories, a st... suggests.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science findi ...
The Stanford University found disrupting sleep made it h ...

Pass-Them-Around is a phone-based application that allow... collocated people to share photos using the metaphor of ... photos around. The prototype encourages people to share ... use them interchangeably while discussing photos face-to... prototype s

Your social motivation network to explore, create and sh... happiest experiences

Microsoft has admitted that it will hand over data to th... if properly requested, even if that data is stored somew... the U.S.

The Wednesdays
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Reminded of this today by someone. Brilliant.

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

Two years ago, the technology blogger John Gruber presen... Auteur Theory of Design,” at the Macworld Expo. Mr. Gr...
The auteur, a film director who both has a distinctive v ...
“The quality of any collaborative creative endeavor te ...
Two years a

CloudMade enables you to build dramatically different Lo... Applications and Services.
CloudMade provides application developers with a range o ...

The power to understand and predict the quantities of th... be restricted to those with a freakish knack for manipul...
When most people speak of Math, what they have in mind i ...
This mechanism of math evolved for a reason: it was the ...
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In 2008, the number of devices that connected to the Int... number of people. That number continues to rise, thanks ... number of connected devices and gizmos, ranging from tel... machines. Folks at Cisco have put together this infograp... the growth

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

Two months ago, Baja announced it would be the first nig... to offer their VIPs something more than a gold-plated en... wanted it could have a microchip implanted under their s... only guarantees entry but provides access to a debit acc... they can pa

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.

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.

British website owners could face extradition to the US ... even if their operation has no connection to America and... which is most probably legal in the UK, the official lea...
The US's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE ...
As long as

Facebook Export uses the Facebook Open Graph protocol to... Facebook data to an xml file. Facebook Export does not s... about you. You can then use this xml file to import your... services and websites that support the Facebook Export (...

Bounded Rationality: A Response to Rational Analysis
Simon criticizes Anderson's proposed rational analysis a ...
Humans are not optimal and only in some cases locall ...
Assumptions made by cognitive modelers about how an ...
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Code Drop: VisualSearch.js
Posted
Jun 23rd, 2011
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... t, so you don’t have to manually re-parse it yourself.

Today we’re open-sourcing a JavaScript library for vis...
A guider is a dialog box that guides a user through your ...
This example guider is not attached to any element and h ...
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An example guider attached to the "Add Varia

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into Jav... all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScr... a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an... the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

(Reuters) - China must boost its cyber-warfare strength ... Pentagon push, the country's top military newspaper said... weeks of friction over accusations that Beijing may have... of Internet hacking attacks.

African governments are turning to more sophisticated te... internet sites and bloggers who they perceive to be a th...
That is the conclusion of The Committee for the Protecti ...

An individual is the only ethical integration point for ...
Our purpose is to catalyze a Personal Data Ecosystem whe ...
The Startup Circle - for startups committed to putti ...
1 Million People for Personal Data - gathers people ...
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WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suit... make Web content and Web applications more accessible to... disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content a... interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript... technologie

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