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The gig economy has created an employment model that rob... rights they’ve earned over more than a century of figh... automation not to make a better world for everyone, but ... doing business on the backs of workers without providing... compensatio

Bilinguals get all the perks. Better job prospects, a co... even protection against dementia. Now new research shows... view the world in different ways depending on the specif... are operating in.

The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play ... between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fa... instead, newly released historical documents show.
The internal sugar industry documents, recently discover ...

For example: Apple’s typography guidelines suggest tha... for a 7:1 contrast ratio. But what ratio, you might ask,... to state the guideline? It’s 5.5:1.
Apple’s guidelines for developers.

From a wind turbine built from scrap to a vertical axis ... drew derision and praise in equal measure, we are not sh... homemade clean energy projects.
This video—created by YouTube user supergokue1—demon ...
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Twitter is a big part of education and technology. But w...
Official MLA Twitter Citation Format
The Modern Language Association (MLA, yes that MLA forma ...
MLA gives an example using the famous tweet that acknowl ...
Athar, Sohaib (ReallyVirtual).

Machines, including the likes of search engines, content... countless applications, are increasingly consuming web c...
So what does this mean for designers and developers? Wor ...
Research has shown that brands that have jumped on the A ...
Then I real

RDF datatypes are based on XSD datatypes, which are ofte... Unfortunately, most implementations simply have the XSD ... do not support or validate new datatype descriptions (th... sord_validate can). Regardless, it is sometimes necessar... datatype wi

Hello World sample embedding application
The following code is a very simple application that sho ...

There are many surprises in doing a PhD. That, for examp... easier to have a idea than to show that is any good. Tha... your supervisor does not possess 'the answer'. Perhaps h... greatest surprise is that it is so much easier to start ... finish it.

Some people can strike off on any journey with no guide except their 'pigeon senses'. How do they do it? And can this ability be learned?

Motivating employees isn’t as simple as paying them mo... complex and lots of different factors contribute to thei... job satisfaction, and what motivates people to do their ... Happiness, career aspirations, challenges, money, stress... that contri

While this might be iPhone 101 to some, Apple pretty muc... feature into their 2.0 firmware, and while we’re now a... may yet know that they can capture their iPhone screen c...
To take a screenshot with your iPhone or iPod Touch, jus ...
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No problem: hpDJ can recapture the mood. At this club, t... biofeedback devices on their wrists or as earrings -- mo... accessories than high-tech devices -- designed to monito... motion, location, temperature and heart rate.
This information is fed to

hReview is a simple, open, distributed format, suitable ... reviews (of products, services, businesses, events, etc.... Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. hReview is one of several ... standards.

An HTC phone starts out somewhere between four months an... reaching to the ABS block mockup stage. During this time... out the next best way to put the phone together, as well... best weight and the best components for certain models, ... size of the

The following table gives the character entity reference... reference, and hexadecimal character reference for 8-bit... Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) character set, as well as the rende...
Browser support is generally best for the decimal charac ...
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The Web Applications Working Group within the W3C has pr... Access Control for Cross-Site Requests recommendation, w...
This access control standard is supported by Firefox 3.5 ...
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I think it is worthwhile calling attention on one of the... not be seen as a “core” SPARQL query language docume... Graph Store HTTP Protocol.
Indeed, this document stands a little bit apart. Instead ...

This section defines the syntax and semantics of all sta...
HTTP/1.1 header fields. For entity-header fields, bot ...
recipient refer to either the client or the server, d ...
sends and who receives the entit

This report proposes a syntax for an XML-based language ... and annotating emotions in technological contexts. In co... markup languages, where emotion is often represented in ... part of a specific language, we propose a language aimin... a wide rang

rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows

Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists... to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or... “ism” and start exploring how technology is changing... of the liberal arts. This latest frontier is about metho... powerful te

The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ...
The glitch?
They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...