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2012-06-06 14:25:41     This keyboard is a wireless projection | TG Daily

http://www.tgdaily.com/...-keyboard-is-a-wireless-projection

Elecom has debuted a wireless projection keyboard that c... mobile device via Bluetooth.
The slick futuristic device could be the perfect choice ...
This keyboard is a wireless projectionStill, if you're a ...

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2012-06-06 14:26:15     Mobile tactile tech gets physical | TG Daily

http://www.tgdaily.com/...-mobile-tactile-tech-gets-physical

Tactus Technology is showcasing its next-gen mobile tact...


Essentially, Tactus has created a Tactile Layer co ...
Mobile tactile tech gets physicalA Tactus spokesperson t ...
Well, Tactus uses microfluidic technology to create phys ...
... , ebook

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2009-08-18 10:44:31     ACAP - Automated Content Access Protocol

http://www.the-acap.org/

ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) is a non-propri... permissions tool that puts content owners in control of ... content in a way that is conducive to developing new onl... models, putting new, high-quality content on the net and... benefits of

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2011-10-24 11:29:19     the pad – DIY-AT paper to appear at ASSETS 2011!

http://www.the-pad.com/...at-paper-to-appear-at-assets-2011/

Assistive Technologies empower individuals to accomplish... not be able to do otherwise. Unfortunately, a large perc... Technology devices that are purchased (35% or more) end ... abandoned [7,10], leaving many people with Assistive Tec... inappropria

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2012-07-26 18:06:46     University memes

http://www.theage.com.au/...ty-memes-20120717-2277p.html?...

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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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2011-05-12 09:53:02     Let Kids Play With Fire, and Other Rules for Good Parenting - Veronique Greenwood - Life - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/05/l.../238601/

The Atlantic Home
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Follow the Atlantic »
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... w up, with a little common sense and a lot of curiosity.

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2011-03-10 08:25:43     Precisely Defining the World's Emoticons - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/.../72258

The Unicode Consortium controls the standards that gover... displayed on the world's computers, which means, of cour... define the world's emoticons. Last month, they released ... of the standard, 6.0. It features this lovely and defini...
unicode.jpg

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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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2012-08-06 11:51:46     Overblown-Claims-of-Failure Watch: How Not to Gauge the Success of Online Courses - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../260159/

Online courses are experiencing sky-high dropout rates, ... a good thing.

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2012-07-26 18:12:30     What It's Like to Teach a MOOC (and What the Heck's a MOOC?) - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../260000/

But because MOOCs are so new, and so limited before yest... first-hand discussion of what it's like to teach one has... current MOOC moment began less than a year ago, when Sta... free, chunked artificial intelligence course online, and... signed up.

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2012-10-12 15:09:56     Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive.../263523/#...

Like many media nerds, I love Chartbeat. It lets you kno...
The second I saw this measure, my heart actually leapt ( ...
On the first day I saw it, this is how big of an impact ...
darksocial_atlantic.jpg
Just look at that graph. On the one hand, you ha

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2013-01-09 06:01:31     Tongue and Tech: The Many Emotions for Which English Has No Words - Megan Garber - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../266956/

There are many, many more conditions out there that Engl...
Here, selected from the blog So Bad So Good, are some of ...
Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for ...
... g of a cleve

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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?
I did get married on the sly. And then in 1951 they ...
The "law" Kolchin refers to is not so much a law but a c ...
ibm1-784x1024.jpg

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2013-12-13 19:09:57     What Happens When Everyone Makes Maps? - Laura C. Mallonee - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../277850/

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2015-03-23 10:29:55     Why I Am Not a Maker — The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../384767/

An identity built around making things—of being “a m... technology culture. There’s a widespread idea that “... things are simply different [read: better] than those wh...

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2016-04-10 14:26:03     How Big Data Harms Poor Communities - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive.../477423/?...

Outside the court system, “innocent until proven guilt... people’s due-process rights, Kerr says: “A right to ... to participate in one’s hearing, a right to know what ... collected about me, and a right to challenge that inform... opaque data

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2013-01-29 07:49:58     Public Transportation ... for Your Car? - Commute - The Atlantic Cities

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/01/pu.../4452/

The Rapid Commute system, as he calls it, would enable l... commuters to hop aboard a train instead – while still ... personal vehicles with them. Drivers already similarly u... waterways. So why not deploy the same concept, Farooq fi...
A diagram o

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2012-07-30 10:44:50     Piano Staircase | The Fun Theory

http://www.thefuntheory.com/piano-staircase

”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator ... is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers.... actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to t... the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here

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2014-02-18 16:41:27     The Great Green Wall Initiative | Global Environment Facility

http://www.thegef.org/gef/great-green-wall

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2015-09-12 16:44:08     The women taking on Isis: on the ground with Iraq's female fighters | Art and design | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...raq-yazidi-female-fighters?...

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2013-10-04 06:23:14     The strange world of urban exploration | Books | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...ert-macfarlane-bradley-garrett

The strange world of urban exploration
Urban explorers scale skyscrapers, jump fences, lift man ...

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2014-01-20 10:39:52     Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as half of the world's population | Business | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/...chest-people-half-of-the-world

The extent to which so much global wealth has become cor... handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a ... Oxfam on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people ...
Working for the Few - Oxfam report Source: F. Alvaredo, ...
The wealth

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2014-11-23 12:36:19     Richest 1% of people own nearly half of global wealth, says report | Business | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...al-wealth-credit-suisse-report

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2015-04-26 20:31:33     Sunday Times Rich List: Britain's richest double their wealth in 10 years | Business | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...e-their-wealth-in-10-years?...

Crisis? What crisis? The 1,000 wealthiest people in the ... £547bn, not counting what’s in their bank accounts, a... latest Sunday Times Rich List

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2014-09-28 20:43:02     How to build a fairer city | Cities | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/...le-transport-broadband-housing

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2014-10-07 09:50:27     Where do atheists live? Maps show the 'godless' cities of England and Wales | Cities | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...ities-religion-census-data-viz

DataShine, a new census data visualisation tool from Oli... UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, shows ‘n... hotspots in Brighton, Bristol and Norwich; while Bradfor... clearly split and Liverpool keeps the faith. Dark blue a... least 39.5%

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2015-07-27 21:58:01     To us, it's an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it's the heist of the century | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/comm.../tax-city-heist-of-century

At the moment tax law ensures that companies based here,... other countries, don't get taxed twice on the same money... only the difference between our rate and that of the oth... example, Dirty Oil plc pays 10% corporation tax on its p...
Foreign mea

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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...
These were jobs where people with limited education used ...
This story is comforting to elites, because it means tha ...
That's a ni

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2014-04-08 11:45:32     Why UK universities shouldn't be hostile to alternative economic models | Maeve Cohen and Catriona Watson | Comment is free | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/...-models-post-crash-society?...

What follows may just seem to be a story about one cours... university, but it has important ramifications, not only... national debate about economics education, but for econo... politics itself. We, the Post-Crash Economics Society at... Manchester,

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