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Self-Referential Aptitude Test
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New robotic hand 'can feel'
A team of scientists from Italy and Sweden has developed ...
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Emailtoid is a simple mapping service that enables the u...
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Piggy bank runs scrapers it grabs from arbitrary third p... formal technical, as well as social rituals and supporti... mechanisms for controlling the risk this creates.
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Piggy Bank is a Firefox extension that turns your browse... platform, by allowing you to extract data from different... them together.
Piggy Bank also allows you to store this extracted infor ...

When the coalition announced that councils would have to... spending over £500 by January next year, there’s been... excitement in the open data and transparency community a...
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GoodRelations - The Web Ontology for E-Commerce
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Total government debt now stands at £890bn - equivalent ...
The £163.4bn borrowed is equivalent to 11.6% of GDP.

J4P5 is a JavaScript interpreter written in PHP 5, that ... untrusted scripts in a sandbox on your server. It aims t... of Ecma-262 3d edition.

This scripting language interpreter is implemented in PH... execute user-supplied JavaScript-lookalike code server-s... compromising security because everything runs safely in ... of course much slower than a real interpreter, but is us... integration

One thing that I absolutely adore is the sheer embeddabi...
Since JavaScript, alone, is so dumb (we've become spoile ...
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Alcatel-Lucent has flipped the traditional API revenue m...
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Caja allows websites to safely embed DHTML web applicati... parties, and enables rich interaction between the embedd... embedded applications. It uses an object-capability secu... allow for a wide range of flexible security policies, so... containing

Firefox 3.5 introduces support for DOM workers. These a... that can be easily created and can send messages back to... Creating a worker is as simple as calling the Worker() c... specifying a script to be run in the worker thread.

The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was establis... Minister, met yesterday for the first time.
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Together with Morten Frederiksen and Dan Brickley (who i... SparqlPress idea), I've created a WordPress extension (c... that adds an (ARC-based) RDF Store and SPARQL Endpoint t... system. The store is kept separate from the WP tables (i... wrapper), b

Connect as a first class action in the browser
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