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2012-08-19 21:22:36     Battle for the lounge room

http://www.smh.com.au/...the-lounge-room-20120608-2006e.html

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2012-08-01 14:17:09     Placebooks: A New Mobile App & Web Service Launched at Royal Geographic Society

http://www.horizon.ac.uk/...-at-royal-geographic-society?...

Going beyond the standard media sharing and mapping solutions currently available, Placebooks aims to provide communities with richer ways to tell the story of the places they live in or visit. The toolkit is being made available for open, free distributi

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2012-05-03 16:38:04     Is Too Much Tech Bad for the Modern Teenager? [INFOGRAPHIC]

http://mashable.com/2012/05/03/teenager-infographi/?...

Is tech saturation good or bad for the modern teenager?
Arguments can be made either way, but there’s no debat ...
People aged 18-34 have an average of 319 online connecti ...
Pew also recently reported that 63% of teenagers text me ...
... to help or

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2012-05-03 09:06:32     Dropbox and Safe Harbor

https://www.dropbox.com/privacy_20120214

9. Safe HarborContacting Us
Dropbox has received TRUSTe's Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy statement and our practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's program requirements including transparency, accountability and choi

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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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2012-04-04 21:52:30     How one word change lets Amazon pays less tax on its UK activities | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...lfilment-less-tax-uk-activities

How one word change lets Amazon pays less tax on its UK ...
The word 'fulfilment' introduced in 2006 marked new role ...

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2012-03-14 12:39:15     Power of maths helping to create electricity grid of the future

http://www.horizon.ac.uk/News/Horizon-?...

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2012-02-12 14:41:13     Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us” | PandoDaily

http://pandodaily.com/...sights-and-theyre-going-to-kill-us/

We can’t pay $1 million for books anymore. Amazon coul... to lose $20 million/year in their publishing arm just to... publishers out of business. I think that’s what they‮.. do–throw money around in an industry that doesn’t ha... Amazon beco

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2012-02-08 10:53:53     Docracy - Learn More

http://www.docracy.com/application/learnmore

Docracy is a social repository of legal documents. Our m... useful legal documents freely available to the public. W... them easier to find, customize and sign. No more crappy ... paywall that you download hoping everything will be alright.
Instead: re

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2012-01-19 13:56:58     The world's browsing prehistory: The first home page Amazon's 1994 home page, TheFacebook and Google! show how much things have changed | Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...ook-Google-things-changed.html

Most of us don't even realise it, but the home pages for... heavyweights such as Amazon, Facebook and YouTube have c... recognition since they launched.
Likewise, most of us don't remember that Google once had ...
With their plain colour schemes and emp

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2012-01-11 10:46:35     Report: Foxconn Employees Forced to Sign 'No Suicide' Pledge | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384763,00.asp

Foxconn, a Chinese company that assembles Apple products... employees to sign a pledge promising that they won't com... according to the Daily Mail.

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2011-12-22 23:54:27     Personal data | Policies | BIS

http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/consumer-issues/personal-data

Midata - access and control your personal data
BIS is working with leading businesses and consumer grou ...
The three main objectives of midata are to:
secure broad private-sector participation in the pro ...
... omers create rich, new ‘person-centr

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2011-12-10 14:09:31     Blueseed Project To Overcome Immigration Bureaucracy By Building Startup Incubator In the Ocean | Singularity Hub

http://singularityhub.com/...tup-incubator-in-the-ocean/?...

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2011-11-22 06:54:22     The power of the written word | Ruth Stalker-Firth

http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/...power-of-the-written-word

Charlie Brown Wah Wah Wah
I used to read a woman’s blog, everyday. It was amazin ...
I can only guess that the last entry, before the blog go ...

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2011-11-12 16:27:49     BBC News - US dismantles 'massive' cyber crime syndicate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15668377

Cyber criminals who are alleged to have made $14m (£9m)... fraud have been arrested in Estonia.
The FBI alleged that the gang infected more then four mi ...

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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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2011-11-05 09:28:32     BBC - Archive - HG Wells on the Future - HG Wells | Science and the Citizen

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/hg_wells/12409.shtml

HG Wells addresses the British Association Conference on... 'Science and the Citizen'. In typical provocative style,... medium of the newspaper as dead and the art of journalis... He claims that reports in newspapers are unreliable and ... people migh

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2011-11-04 08:59:43     Yahoo Gives the iPad the Power to Understand TV - Technology Review

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/39047/

A new iPad app from Yahoo can recognize any TV show by l... audio, and automatically serve up related Web content, s... related to a news broadcast or play-by-play stats for a ...

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2011-11-02 11:54:29     Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Hacktivists | TPM Idea Lab

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/...operation-cartel.php

Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Ha...
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Members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous who threa ...
... ves would almost certainly be targeted by rival cartels.

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2011-11-02 08:31:24     Unthinkable Consulting - Unthinkable Blog - Green shoots of linked (open) data around news

http://www.unthinkableconsulting.com/...ata-around-news.html

Green shoots of linked (open) data around news
Friday, October 28, 2011 at 5:31PM
Based on Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyg ...
A couple of weeks ago Justin and I attended an event hos ...
... Matthew Shorter

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2011-10-31 14:05:33     Digital Death Day

http://digitaldeathday.com/

DEATH IS A PART OF LIFE AND LIFE HAS (TO AN EXTENT) BECO...
Our increasing digitality means that we will increasingl ...
Held in the inspiring setting of the Tropenmuseum’s ex ...
Thus stimulating a reconsideration of how death, mournin ...

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2011-10-30 19:09:40     Sorry, Dropbox, I still don't trust you | ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/sorry-dropbox-i-s.../4173?...

Last summer, I deleted my Dropbox account after the comp... horrifying security breach. This week, I reluctantly ope... account. Within minutes, I received a message from Dropb... their back-end processes are still problematic. Here’s... concerned.

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2011-10-24 13:33:02     The 147 Companies That Control Everything - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/...-companies-that-control-everything/

Visualizing the "super entity." Courtesy: New Scientist
Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute o ...
They discovered that global corporate control has a dist ...

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2011-10-24 13:30:09     New Malware Brings Cyberwar One Step Closer - Technology Review

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?...

A newly discovered piece of malicious code dubbed Duqu i... to the notorious Stuxnet worm that damaged Iran's nuclea... centrifuges last year. Although it has no known target o... the stage for more industrial and cyberwar attacks, expe...

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2011-09-19 15:23:54     Science Exchange // The Online Marketplace For Outsourcing Science Experiments

http://scienceexchange.com/about

Science Exchange is an online marketplace for science ex... is to make it easier for researchers to access core reso... institutions. Our first product, ScienceExchange.com bri... research scientists looking to outsource experiments wit... at core fac

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2011-09-12 12:34:54     About Full Fact | Full Fact

http://fullfact.org/about

Full Fact is an independent fact-checking organisation. ... to see the facts and context behind the claims made by t... British political debate and press those who make mislea...
We have already successfully pressed for inaccurate clai ...
Since its c

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2011-09-12 09:11:10     Concerns that proposed 4G broadband network might disable GPS

http://www.go4awalk.com/...king-news-and-discussions.php?...

Broadband communications and Global Positioning Systems ... technologies happily used by many walkers as navigation ... the still essential map and compass.
And - as many smartphone users will testify - these two ...
But this could change if a new 4G m

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2011-09-09 18:22:41     A Plausible Thought About the Future: Safeguarding Privacy With Deception - Conor Friedersdorf - Technology - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../244826/

In the future, I wonder if it'll be common for people in... that to stop trying to scrub information from the Web, p... strategically add more content to the cloud as an elabor...

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2011-08-23 18:41:24     The impact of Oracle's defense of API copyrights | ITworld

http://www.itworld.com/...act-oracles-defense-api-copyrights

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2011-08-23 18:38:16     BBC News - When algorithms control the world

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14306146

If you were expecting some kind warning when computers f... than us, then think again.
There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing ...
In reality, our electronic overlords are already taking ...
Their weapon of choice - the algorithm.

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