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2007-02-17 08:53:46     Adobe XMP: Adding intelligence to media

http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/

Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a labeling... allows you to embed data about a file, known as metadata... itself. With XMP, desktop applications and back-end publ... gain a common method for capturing, sharing, and leverag... metadata

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2010-10-18 15:31:52     Solving Africa's hunger - Features - Al Jazeera English

http://english.aljazeera.net/inde.../201010178242499808.html

Africa is hungry - 240 million people are undernourished... first-time, small African farmers have been properly con... solve the problem of feeding sub-Saharan Africa. Their a... directly repudiate a massive international effort to lau...
Instead of

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2011-06-18 14:55:13     BBC News - African jitters over blogs and social media

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13786143

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 ...

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2013-01-05 16:42:50     The Empire Lobbies Back: How Big Cable Killed Competition in North Carolina | Institute for Local Self-Reliance

http://www.ilsr.org/killing-competition-nc/

After a city in North Carolina built a Fiber-to-the-Home... with Time Warner Cable, the cable giant successfully lob... decision away from other cities.
The city of Wilson’s decision and resulting network wa ...

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2012-08-23 11:43:10     Amid plagiarism reports, Coursera adds honor code reminders — Tech News and Analysis

http://gigaom.com/...coursera-adds-honor-code-reminders/?...

After a report last week about plagiarism incidences on ... offers free online courses, the startup has added honor ... help keep students honest.

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2016-12-09 17:34:47     The #Election2016 Micro-Propaganda Machine – Medium

https://medium.com/...ro-propaganda-machine-383449cc1fba#...

After finding evidence that much of the “fake” and h... traffic during 🇺🇸#Election2016 was arriving throug... hyperlinks, search engines, and “old school” sharing... email newsletters, RSS, and instant messaging, I thought... “big data

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2007-12-17 09:19:52     Main Page - Ajax Patterns

http://ajaxpatterns.org/Main_Page

AjaxPatterns.org began as a collection of design pattern... basis of the book, Ajax Design Patterns, and grew into a... wiki on anything and everything Ajax.

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2008-06-11 08:45:11     Supercomputer breaks speed record | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technolog.../computing.sciencenews

Alan Dix, professor of computing at Lancaster University... rough calculations, Roadrunner was possibly only five to... powerful than the human brain. "Wait another three to fi... will be there," he said

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2006-06-03 16:09:16     Currency Symbols - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/currency_symbols.html

Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources
Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
Currency Symbols
U+20A0 – U+20CF (8352–8399)

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2010-06-29 18:34:20     API Bundles | Open API Service

http://openapiservice.com/content/api-bundles

Alcatel-Lucent has flipped the traditional API revenue m...
By creating a commercially packaged bundle of APIs, deve ...
Don't max out your credit cards with API calls. Instead, ...

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2006-01-08 18:07:31     Alexa Web Information Service

http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/WebInfoService.html

Alexa Web Information Service
Alexa's vast database of information about the Web is av ...
The Alexa Web Information Service offers a platform for ...

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2006-01-08 18:07:53     Alexa Web Search Platform

http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/web_search_platform.html

Alexa Web Search Platform - Beta
NEWS: Released December 13, 2005 - The Alexa Web Search ...
The Alexa Web Search Platform provides public access to ...

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2017-04-10 08:01:48     Why algorithms aren't working for women

http://www.feministcurrent.com/...ithms-arent-working-women/

Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

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2009-02-17 11:43:24     Alicebot

http://alicebot.blogspot.com/

ALICE A.I. Foundation news items, announcements, press r... opinions. Anything related to Artificial Intelligence Ma... (AIML), the Turing Test, the Loebner Prize, bot hosting ... proprietary chat bot software.

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2014-06-23 13:16:02     Welcome - Makers Now

http://www.autonomatic.org.uk/

All Makers Now? is a two-day conference exploring craft ... century production at Falmouth University’s Penryn Cam... 10-11th July 2014.
The digital crafters in the Autonomatic Research Group a ...

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2007-11-10 14:23:31     grandfathers great war - Excerpts

http://www.grandfathersgreatwar.com/2.html

All the time the Boche dropped shells promiscuously abou... had a corpse to stand or sit on was lucky."

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2008-07-18 07:07:07     Why general practitioners use computers and hospital doctors do not---Part 1: incentives -- Benson 325 (7372): 1086 -- BMJ

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/325/7372/1086

Almost all British general practitioners use compute... consulting rooms, but most hospital doctors do not
Over 30 years, leaders of the general practitioner p ...
In hospitals computing was treated as a management o ...
The success of th

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2005-09-01 12:37:17     Gordon Bell

http://www.research.microsoft.com/~gbell/Pubs.htm

also Goo...

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2015-08-17 07:08:16     The Truth Wears Off - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201.../the-truth-wears-off

Although many scientific ideas generate conflicting resu... falling effect sizes, they continue to get cited in the ... standard medical practice. Why? Because these ideas seem... make sense. Because we can’t bear to let them go. And ... decline eff

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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.
The firm is able to wield such power over publishers bec ...

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2015-04-06 11:54:42     The Horror of Amazon’s New Dash Button - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/...orror-of-amazons-new-dash-button

Amazon’s new Dash Button, which will allow shoppers to... used domestic products like laundry detergent or paper t... click of a real-life button, is not a joke. Many people ... mostly because the announcement came the day before Apri... also becaus

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2006-01-22 18:29:44     Web Search for a Planet

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=776716

Amenable to extensive parallelization, Google's web sear... different queries run on different processors and,by par... overall index, also lets a single query usemultiple proc... this workload, Google's architecture features clusters o... commodity-c

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2014-10-20 10:01:31     Why Experts Reject Creativity - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/wh.../2/

American culture worships creativity, but mostly in the ... people really don't like new ideas that sound entirely n... the experts that often have to approve them. The trick i... new ideas as old ideas—to make your creativity seem, w... creative.

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2006-02-13 06:49:48     Usability News - Gender Differences in US Internet Take-Up are diminishing

http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article2918.asp

American women are catching men up in most measures of o... while men like the internet for the experiences it offer... for the human connections it promotes.
A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men us ...

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2010-12-27 10:35:24     Stephen Gill - Americans Are Horribly Misinformed About Who Has Money - Random things that I found interesting

http://sgill.me/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-about-who

Americans have a really distorted view of how wealth is ...
This chart is from a paper called "Building a Better Ame ...
The top row shows the actual distribution of wealth in A ...
Below that, the "Estimated" rows show how different grou ...
... g of ho

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2012-09-25 08:10:48     BBC News - Chinese families' worldly goods in Huang Qingjun's pictures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19648095

Amid China's tumultuous dash to become rich, one man's p...
Huang Qingjun has spent nearly a decade travelling to re ...
The results offer glimpses of the utilitarian lives of m ...
But seen more closely, they also show the enormous socia ...
Elderly Chi

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2007-08-30 08:22:04     Paolo Valdemarin Weblog

http://paolo.evectors.it/2007/06/13.html

Among the little features I like there's the tag cloud w... tags metadata (each time two tags appear in the same pos... relationship stronger) to highlight other tags while you...

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2014-02-18 16:47:22     Scientific Utopia

http://pps.sagepub.com/content/7/6/615.full

An academic scientist’s professional success depends o... Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As s... incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting dec... positive results and ignore negative results. Prior repo... these incen

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2022-06-17 06:34:20    

https://twitter.com/DelightfulApps/st.../1537145851503644675

An algorithm apparently generates these light patterns. Be better if an artist had?

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2011-05-21 09:02:19     BBC News - Amondawa tribe lacks abstract idea of time, study says

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13452711

An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say ...
The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate ...
The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while t ...
The idea is a controversial one, and further study will ...

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