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2014-10-03 13:52:16 Offline and falling behind: Barriers to Internet adoption | McKinsey & Company | ||
http://www.mckinsey.com/...ind_barriers_to_internet_adoption | ||
More than 60 percent of the world’s population remains... removing crucial deterrents to Internet adoption, little... more than 4 billion people may be left behind. | ||
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2014-06-12 12:36:15 Sale of postcodes data was a 'mistake' say Committee - News from Parliament - UK Parliament | ||
http://www.parliament.uk/business/.../open-data-substantive/ | ||
Valuable data should be published and used as a public g... economy and society. | ||
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2014-06-10 11:45:34 The coming digital anarchy - Telegraph | ||
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...he-coming-digital-anarchy.html | ||
Bitcoin is giving banks a run for their money. Now the s... threatens to eradicate social networks, stock markets, e... governments. Are we heading towards an anarchic future w... power of any kind will dissolve? | ||
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2014-03-16 18:27:34 Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies | ||
A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon ... extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly –... developmental biology that we – and most other Drosoph... biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in... print. But | ||
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2014-01-26 09:37:56 How open data empowers citizens of poorer nations - tech - 13 November 2013 - New Scientist | ||
http://www.newscientist.com/...ns-of-poorer-nations.html#... | ||
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2014-01-14 21:36:47 The Royal Society of Edinburgh | Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation | ||
http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/...sofDigitalParticipation.html | ||
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2014-01-09 07:03:06 Proof Of Existence | ||
Use our service to anonymously and securely store an onl... proof of existence for any document. Your documents are ... database or in the Bitcoin blockchain, so you don't have... | ||
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2014-01-08 08:05:33 People, Not Data | Code for America | ||
I wish I could end this with a heroic call-to-action. .. Do YOU want to fix our broken government?? Click here to... But I can’t. My fellowship year clarified more problem... Instead, I’ll offer a question: How can we build empat... | ||
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2013-12-19 15:22:09 MediaMonkey » Information » Gold | ||
Catalog your physical CDs and use the Virtual CD feature... what CDs you own and at the same time see which subset o... CDs are copied to your hard drive. Instead of tracking y... separately, the virtual CD function gives you an integra... | ||
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2013-12-18 10:56:11 An Homage to Douglas Engelbart and a Critique of the State of Tech - NYTimes.com | ||
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...e-of-the-state-of-tech/?... | ||
Everyone here will of course say they are carrying on hi... twisted interpretation. I for one carry on his work by k... outside the file, as he did. | ||
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2013-12-17 15:16:17 The Mission to De-Centralize the Internet : The New Yorker | ||
http://www.newyorker.com/...o-decentralize-the-internet.html | ||
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2013-12-03 08:12:13 End of Moore's Law: It's not just about physics | Business Tech - CNET News | ||
http://news.cnet.com/...ores-law-its-not-just-about-physics/ | ||
A DARPA director argues that the end of the Moore's Law ... essentially why you now have a tablet in your hand -- co... because of insurmountable economic challenges. | ||
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2013-11-29 18:53:29 Technology didn't kill middle class jobs, public policy did | Dean Baker | Comment is free | theguardian.com | ||
http://www.theguardian.com/...ology-middle-class-jobs-policy | ||
A widely held view in elite circles is that the rapid ri... the United States over the last three decades is an unfo... | ||
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2013-10-12 11:46:11 BBC News - Imagine a world without shops or factories | ||
Continue reading the main story | ||
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2013-09-17 20:03:46 Fairphone | A seriously cool smartphone. Putting social values first. | ||
Fairphone is a social enterprise. We started in 2010 as ... society, Action Aid and Schrijf-Schrijf, aimed at raisin... conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the s... minerals is fueling in the DR Congo. The campaign and re... complex sup | ||
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2013-09-16 13:23:17 BBC News - Online shopping: The pensioner who started a home shopping revolution | ||
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2013-03-24 17:56:58 ACM SIGMOD Blog » Stop publishing so much already! | ||
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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... | ||
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2013-03-24 08:54:52 Utilities: Google's Google problem | The Economist | ||
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/201.../utilities | ||
What Google has actually done is create a powerful infra... shape of that infrastructure influences everything that ... influences the allocation of mental resources of everyon... | ||
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2013-03-23 15:24:53 Jay Parkinson, The Doctor Is In (Well, Logged In) - NYTimes.com | ||
http://www.nytimes.com/...ctor-is-in-well-logged-in.html?... | ||
Dr. Parkinson’s start-up isn’t a new app or social n... founder of Sherpaa, a Web site that operates like a virt... office, examining patients by e-mail and text message. | ||
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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 | ||
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... | ||
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2013-02-11 23:38:59 Amazon unpacked - FT.com | ||
http://www.ft.com/...5c-70bd-11e2-85d0-00144feab49a.html#... | ||
he online giant is creating thousands of UK jobs, so why... less than happy? | ||
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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... | ||
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2013-02-09 09:27:30 About | Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People | ||
DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us... | ||
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2013-02-09 09:23:16 Outlawed by Amazon DRM « Martin Bekkelund | ||
A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail,... frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her... notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it’s worst. | ||
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2013-02-09 09:22:28 Amazon makes UK publishers pay 20% VAT on ebook sales | Books | The Guardian | ||
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...forces-publishers-pay-vat-ebook | ||
Amazon is forcing British publishers to cover the cost o... on ebook sales – even though the true VAT cost to the ... only a fraction of that amount under its generous Luxemb... regime. | ||
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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? | ||
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2013-01-30 08:09:08 Share a secret - One Time | ||
When you send people passwords and private links via ema... are copies of that information stored in many places. If... link instead, the information persists for a single view... can't be read by someone else later. This allows you to ... information | ||
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2013-01-28 10:15:47 Internet access declared a basic right in Germany | Sci-Tech | DW.DE | 27.01.2013 | ||
http://www.dw.de/internet-access-declared-a-ba.../a-16553916 | ||
A top German court has ruled that people can sue their I... for damages if connection is lost. The court has ruled t... Internet represents a basic need in modern society. | ||
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2013-01-19 09:48:33 BBC News - Has chip and pin had its day? | ||
Ross Anderson, an academic in the Computer Laboratory at... | ||
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