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| 03.07.2023 | КЛЕТКА II, теории возникновения жизни | Введение
В предыдущих публикациях «Мыслящая материя» и «Клетка I, как возникает живая материя» автор не касался деталей и условий научных теорий о возникновении жизни. В рамках таких теорий считается, что для читателя должны быть раскрыты н... |
| 10.03.2018 | #BLChat : Of bell curves and appraisals | Missed BusinessLine's Twitter Chat on performance reviews? Read the Storify here!
BusinessLine's Twitter Chat on appraisal systems was led by IBM's recruitment branding lead Ruchi Bhatia and performance consultant, workplace reimagination p... |
| 01.02.2018 | Boko Haram’s al-Qaeda Affiliation: A Response to ‘Five Myths about Boko Haram’ | In a January 14, 2018, Lawfare article, Alexander Thurston wrote that “mounting evidence pushed me, despite my strong initial skepticism, to acknowledge and begin to analyze the ties and exchanges between Boko Haram and AQIM.” The humility ... |
| 11.12.2017 | #DLNchat: Where the Digital Learning Network Connects | What’s the best metaphor for describing the role of an instructional designer? How can digital learning help improve graduation rates? How might adaptive learning courseware change the work of faculty? Who should be responsible for protecti... |
| 12.10.2017 | Fintech Cambodia at Inspire Asean ’17 in Phnom Penh | We were in Phnom Penh to attend Inspire Asean 2017. This is the 2nd edition featuring leaders and start-ups in the fintech space around the region and of course, Cambodia. Here are some highlights of the event. We went there to finish our F... |
| 16.06.2017 | 2017 #MyTopCollege Week One Update: CSUF Is Back Again, Otterbein Cracks Top 5 | California State University, Fullerton is already in #MyTopCollege midseason form, finisheing in... [+] first place after week one. @Yaniitzaaa |
| 01.05.2017 | Seven Theories of the Case: What Do We Really Know About L’Affaire Russe and What Could it All Mean? | Today, Lawfare is launching a detailed, annotated set of links laying out the known facts about L’Affaire Russe. We will keep this resource page updated as new facts, stories, documents, and statements emerge. Here, however, we want to cons... |
| 29.04.2017 | Coming This Summer: Powerful, Peer-Led Professional Development That Won’t Bore | When was the last time you walked into a conference without an agenda? Or, for that matter, without the slightest idea of what you might learn?
For us, it was at EdFoo 2017, an un-conference of teachers, edtech gurus, funders and others gat... |
| 24.04.2017 | Body Double: What Medieval Executive Theory Tells Us About Trump’s Twitter Accounts | In 1571, an English jurist named Edmund Plowden, trying to make sense of cases involving the sale and purchase of land owned by various monarchs, argued:
[T]he King has in him two Bodies, viz., a Body natural, and a Body politic. His Body n... |
| 31.01.2017 | Notable Reactions to President Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum on the National Security Council | On Sunday evening, as protests and condemnations proliferated of President Trump’s executive order limiting immigrant and refugee entry into the United States, the administration quietly released a National Security Presidential Memorandum ... |
| 22.12.2016 | Uber may now have permission to track your iPhone | Uber updated its mobile application recently, adding features that may let it continue to collect user location data even after a ride is completed. Uber said it would only collect data about you for five minutes after a ride ends, but ther... |
| 07.11.2016 | Are Robot Scalpers Ripping You Off? Do We Need Government To Stop It? | Ticket scalpers have a bad rep. Critics deride them as “malicious” and “bad actors” and sometimes even deem them the primary cause of a purported nationwide “bot epidemic.” Responding to fan complaints about the paucity of tickets, de facto... |
| 25.08.2016 | Some Thoughts On Twitter, Delivered As A Tweetstorm | I sent this out last night. In case you missed it, I thought I’d share it with all of you this morning.
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| 08.08.2016 | The real scandal is that you still believe TV licence detector vans are real | Central Press/Getty Images reader comments 88 with 53 posters participating
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| 03.08.2016 | 3 interesting startup ideas that could use your feedback | Share this article:
Following yesterday’s call for startup pitches, we got our hands filled with a good number of interesting pitches in as little as just few moments after the post was published. This just buttresses the claims about how t... |
| 01.08.2016 | An ugly summer for science: Turmoil rocks Canadian research community | TORONTO — The rejection seemed like a bad joke.
Developmental biologist John Cobb had applied for a Canadian government grant to research a gene that causes malformed limbs. The anonymous reviewer looking over his proposal acknowledged the ... |
| 28.07.2016 | On the Need for Official Attribution of Russia’s DNC Hack | Yesterday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff—Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, respectively—called on the Obama administration to c... |
| 20.07.2016 | raceAhead: Muslims, Political Correctness and the RNC | Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
It’s the one about the Muslim girl named Maysoon Zayid, from New Jersey, of all places, who’s a stand-up comic – well, “sit down,” really, because she’s got cerebral palsy. (You know this one?) The f... |
| 20.07.2016 | Aussie site caught up in CryptXXX ransomware-spreading campaign | Attackers are targeting business websites through a vulnerable version of the Revslider slideshow plugin for Wordpress to spread the CryptXXX ransomware.
Security vendor Invincea warned that the SoakSoak botnet, active since 2014, is curren... |
| 19.07.2016 | Wave of business websites hijacked to deliver crypto-ransomware | JaviDex reader comments 25 with 20 posters participating
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If you've visited the do-it-yourself project site of Dunlop Adhesives, the official tourism site for Guatemala, or ... |
| 06.06.2016 | Before We Were Connected: How To Achieve a Statewide Professional Learning Network | Teachers, on average, spent around 20 hours per year on workshops—more time than on all other common forms of professional development except professional learning communities, a format in which fewer teachers participated.*
*Teachers Know ... |
| 18.05.2016 | A Dozen Bad Ideas That Were Raised At The Copyright Office's DMCA Roundtables | The Copyright Office has been holding a series of “roundtable discussions” on copyright reform that it’s going to use to produce a paper supporting certain changes to copyright law. We already know that some sort of copyright reform bill is... |
| 17.05.2016 | Medical students demand better training to tackle opioid crisis | Calling their curriculum deficient, students at Harvard Medical School are teaching themselves how to treat opioid addiction — joining the ranks of critics who say medical schools across the country aren’t doing enough to prepare doctors fo... |
| 26.04.2016 | Encryption as Living Will: Think Before You Drink the Kool-Aid | A grieving father in Italy has written to Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, to beg him to unblock his dead son’s iPhone so he can retrieve the photographs stored on it.
If the US tech giant fails, he said he would turn to the Israeli mobil... |
| 28.03.2016 | Racist hack forces thousands of printers to spew nasty flyers | Infamous black hat and Internet troll Andrew Auernheimer is up to his usual tricks, this time exploiting thousands of unsecure internet-connected printers and forcing them to spew out racist propaganda flyers.
He discovered that printers wi... |
| 04.03.2016 | NSW legislators back privacy laws for individuals | A committee of NSW legislators has backed the introduction of new laws that would allow individuals to seek legal redress over serious breaches of their privacy.
The state parliament’s standing committee on law and justice has joined a chor... |
| 17.02.2016 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Over the weekend, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead at a Texas resort. His unexpected death sparked immediate political tension as President Obama vowed to fill the vacancy over GOP objections. Just hours after the news br... |
| 16.01.2016 | Angani’s Former CEO And CTO Are Venturing Back Into The Cloud Computing Space With Node Africa | After a board meltdown that shook Kenya’s first cloud infrastructure startup Angani, its former CEO Phares Kariuki and CTO Brian Muita are returning with a new venture within the cloud computing space.
The Angani saga, as it came to be know... |
| 07.12.2015 | "Power Wars" in 100 Tweets | Like many Lawfare readers, I confess to being a little obsessed with Charlie Savage's new book, Power Wars. It is a remarkable account of how national security law is forged, step by step, through the decisions of unsung government official... |
| 01.12.2015 | Our Response To The Latest Ridiculous Legal Threat Against Us: Milorad Trkulja Can Go Pound Sand | As we’ve noted, we regularly get legal threats, some of which are more serious than others. Sometimes we ignore them entirely, and sometimes we feel the need to respond. Depending on the situation, sometimes we respond privately. Sometimes ... |
| 03.11.2015 | Northern Stars Manchester (2nd Nov 2015) | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
Our seventh ‘Northern Stars’ event saw 12 exciting tech startups pitch their business to an audience of over 100 people at the Barclays RISE Escalator in Manchester. Here’s a se... |
| 30.10.2015 | Northern Stars Hull (29th Oct 2015) | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
On Thursday 29th October, over 100 members of Hull’s digital community gathered at the newly-opened C4DI building to hear six tech startup pitches and to vote for their favourit... |
| 29.10.2015 | Facebook Tests “Local Market,” A Dedicated Buying And Selling Community Powered By Facebook Groups | A number of Facebook users recently reported seeing a new feature called “Local Market” appearing briefly in their Facebook iPhone app, sometimes in place of the “Messenger” button at the bottom center of the screen. The feature, which is o... |
| 23.10.2015 | Northern Stars Sheffield (20th Oct 2015) | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
On Tuesday 20th October, around 80 people gathered at the Union St co-working and event space in Sheffield to hear 10 up-and-coming tech startups pitch their business at Norther... |
| 23.10.2015 | The Cloud Innovation Centre in Newcastle wins ‘Collaborator of the Year’ at Dyamites15 awards | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
As part of Tech City UK, ‘Tech North’ has been created to support, promote and accelerate the growth of digital entrepreneurship in the North of England.
With a particular focu... |
| 14.10.2015 | Northern Stars Liverpool (13th Oct 2015) | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
Our fourth ‘Northern Stars’ event saw around 100 members of Liverpool’s digital and startup community come together at Baltic Creative to watch and support 5 up-and-coming tech ... |
| 14.10.2015 | Slack Engineer Erica Baker: Diversity Efforts Need To Extend Beyond Gender | Erica Baker, a build and release engineer at Slack, is making waves in tech right now. She’s the ex-Google employee who released employee salary data at Google. She’s also the one behind #RealDiversityNumbers, a Twitter movement to get comp... |
| 05.10.2015 | Northern Stars Sunderland (1st October 2015) | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
Our second of seven ‘Northern Stars’ events saw 10 exciting tech startups from across the North East pitch to a room full of fellow founders, investors and business leaders at S... |
| 27.09.2015 | Northern Stars Newcastle (24th September 2015) | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
Our first of seven ‘Northern Stars’ events took place at Campus North in Newcastle and saw 8 fantastic tech startups pitch to a full house of almost 100 fellow founders, investo... |
| 17.09.2015 | Here's The Ridiculous Texas Law That Allows Law Enforcement To Pretend A Digital Clock Is A Hoax Bomb | There may be some method behind the zero tolerance, racially-tinged madness of the Irving, Texas, police department. The department perp-walked fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed out of school and into its welcoming arms for the crime of not b... |
| 15.09.2015 | Tech North community gathers to share vision for North’s digital economy | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
Last week the Tech North community gathered in Leeds to celebrate the great work that is happening across the region. Head of Tech North Claire Braithwaite gave her first public... |
| 14.09.2015 | The Crazy Permission-Asking Media Scrum That Descends When Photographic News Happens On Twitter | As you may have heard last week, a British Airways plane caught fire as it was taxiing on the runway preparing for takeoff. Thankfully, everyone on board escaped with just a few minors scratches and bruises. The plane wasn’t so lucky. Howev... |
| 13.09.2015 | Unicorpse: Why founders and investors should stop talking about unicorns | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The current usage of the word unicorn makes me ti... |
| 13.09.2015 | Unicorpse: Why founders and investors should stop talking about unicorns | The current usage of the word unicorn makes me tired. I could rant about it for a while, but that would make me tired of myself ranting about it.
Instead, I’d like to focus on a word that appeared a month ago by Aileen Lee in Welcome To The... |
| 01.09.2015 | Thanks Interwebz: Giving Back to the London Ecosystem | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Ahead of the Secret Sauce Conference at Campus London on September 23rd, we heard from the organiser, Vincent Dignan, on the story behind the event
A lot can change in two an... |
| 26.08.2015 | 9 Writing Tools for High-Quality Content Creation | If you want to write professionally in the 21st century, you need to be up to speed on the best tools that you can use to become a better, more productive content creator. Even if you're one of those writers set in your ways and Microsoft W... |
| 04.08.2015 | Zeotap scores $6.4 million from heavy hitters to bolster its data monetisation platform for telcos | Zeotap, a Berlin startup that came out of 'company builder' HitFox Group, has secured $6.4 million in funding after raising an initial $1.3 million in November 2014.
The fresh cash comes from Cologne-based Capnamic Ventures and its French i... |
| 01.08.2015 | Did the Intercept Just Admit It Makes Up Facts? | It isn't every day you have an exchange with a journalist who just comes out and admits—twice, actually—that a story in his publication contains made up facts. But I actually think that's more or less what just took place in a remarkable Tw... |
| 22.07.2015 | Программистка Google разгневала руководство, раскрыв оклады коллег | Отдел новостей Зарплата 22 июля 2015, 09:58 Программистка Google разгневала руководство, раскрыв оклады коллег
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| 15.07.2015 | Showtime’s Over-The-Top Streaming Service Sees Its First On Demand Outage | Showtime’s recently launched over-the-top video streaming service, a competitor of sorts to HBO NOW, hit its first snag last night when the Showtime apps on Apple and Roku devices experienced a brief outage. A number of Showtime viewers rep... |
| 14.07.2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Following 20 months of stop-and-start negotiations and a final 18-day sprint of intense talks in Vienna, the United States and five other world powers announced a comprehensive deal with Iran intended to curb the country’s nuclear program i... |
| 13.07.2015 | Tech companies spend big money on bias training—but it hasn’t improved diversity numbers | Facebook recently redoubled its efforts on bias training when its diversity numbers barely budged from last year, now at 16% female, 3% Hispanic and 1% black among its tech workers. The company reworked its Managing Bias course to be “harde... |
| 08.07.2015 | Gerard Grech Calls for Digital Social Contract Between City & Citizen | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Tech City UK CEO Gerard Grech spoke at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) last night as part of their summer public lecture series. In front of a packe... |
| 08.07.2015 | NYSE halts trading due to tech issue | The New York Stock Exchange halted trading for more than three hours on all stocks Wednesday afternoon because of a technical problem, the company said, further roiling markets when stock values were falling over news from China and Europe.... |
| 06.07.2015 | Twitter Officially Launches Its Mobile Ads Manager | Twitter today officially announced the launch of its new mobile Ads Manager, which allows users of Twitter’s smartphone applications to track their ad campaigns’ performance – including their impressions, engagements, spend, cost per engage... |
| 02.07.2015 | Twitter Pushes Ads With A New Button Atop Mobile Users’ Profiles | Twitter’s latest push to monetize its service has led to the rollout of a new “Twitter Ads” button, which is now prominently appearing on user profile pages on both the iOS and Android client applications. The newly added button, which some... |
| 24.06.2015 | Google Was Gagged For Four Years From Talking About Fighting The Wikileaks Investigation | Reporter, activity and security guy Jacob Appelbaum has been harassed by the government for years for helping with Wikileaks. We’ve written before about how he gets detained at the border and is ordered to hand over all of his electronic eq... |
| 19.06.2015 | French App Ups Creep Factor, Allows Users to Send Songs To Strangers | J.E. Reich, Tech Times 19 June 2015, 12:06 pm
A new feature on the dating app Happn allows users to send full Spotify songs to anyone with a Spotify account (and 30-second clips to those who don't), which might be the creepiest thing in the... |
| 19.06.2015 | Storifying the Oversight System for JSOC Kill/Capture Ops | I'm not certain this adds value, but I've decided to give Storify a shot. My first shot at it uses the platform to pull together my posts on the ongoing development of the statutory regime for oversight of kill/capture ops conducted by the ... |
| 15.06.2015 | Facebook Pages Can Now Show How Quickly They Respond To Customers’ Messages | Facebook has been working to improve customer service-focused features for Page administrators for some time, most recently with the introduction of “Saved Replies,” a feature that allows Page admins to quickly respond to incoming inquires ... |
| 08.06.2015 | Apple claims Siri’s speech recognition tech is more accurate than Google’s | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apple has improved the performance of its Siri personal digital assistant so much that it now outperforms alternatives like Google Now ... |
| 08.06.2015 | Apple claims Siri’s speech recognition tech is more accurate than Google’s | Apple has improved the performance of its Siri personal digital assistant so much that it now outperforms alternatives like Google Now and Microsoft’s Cortana.
The speech recognition capability in Siri now has a 5 percent word error rate, t... |
| 28.05.2015 | Increase Engagement on Medium or Reddit with Wedgies Integration | Creating engaging content on the web is the goal of just about any organization looking to grow their audience. Embedly is a product that makes it easy for content creators to put different forms of media directly into their content in orde... |
| 26.05.2015 | The ABIM, its finances, and the great collusion | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
Yesterday, Newsweek Pulitzer-prize finalist and reporter Kurt Eichenwald pulled back the curtain on the Great and Powerful Oz of medical credentialing, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) when he met... |
| 11.05.2015 | Europe’s Digital Single Market needs to foster tech startups and a global view | Europe has launched its strategy for a Digital Single Market throughout its member countries. The success of this strategy relies on the ability of European lawmakers and politicians removing barriers to digital trade and creating an enviro... |
| 05.05.2015 | How someone spent “pennies” to troll women, people of color via promoted tweets | Andrew Auernheimer reader comments 204 with 76 posters participating
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| 16.04.2015 | Tinder Experiences Outage Following Recent Update | A number of Tinder users are reporting issues logging into the service, seeing new people, editing profiles as well as sending messages. The problems began last night for some, though it’s not clear yet if the outage is affecting all users ... |
| 13.04.2015 | Sling TV Stumbles During HBO’s “Game Of Thrones” Premiere, As Customers Report Roku App Issues | Cord cutters who have been considering switching to Dish Network’s streaming service Sling TV may be having second thoughts as of this morning. The company, which offers a $20 per month bundle of TV channels you can watch over the internet ... |
| 07.04.2015 | Mark Cuban’s advice a ‘recipe for making all of us sick,’ expert says | (David Sleight/ProPublica)
By Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog.
Last week, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban caused quite a stir on Twitter by suggesting that people, if they could afford it, ge... |
| 02.04.2015 | A Somali Journal Launched Without Any Somali Editors, Igniting a Debate on White Privilege
CadaanStudies assembled 1,500 tweets in its first few days of inception and its Storify has been viewed arou... | White academics celebrating their African studies journal. Photo via Facebook
This post originally appeared on VICE Canada.
On the evening of March 25, the hashtag #CadaanStudies ("cadaan" meaning "white" in Somali) emer... |
| 02.04.2015 | Is Mark Cuban really healthcare clueless? Johns Hopkins stares down $1B lawsuit (Morning Read) | Cuban’s comments wouldn’t matter much if he was a run-of-the-mill investor, or even an average tech CEO.
But Cuban’s platform is so big — beyond his nearly 3 million Twitter followers, “Shark Tank” draws more than 8 million viewers too — an... |
| 25.03.2015 | FORBES Twitter Chat: Bruce Upbin And Thomas Fox-Brewster On E-Mail Security | E-mail security is a hot-button issue in the news, but for some, there are still concerns about how you can protect yourself and your information. FORBES hosted one of our #AskForbes Twitter chats with Forbes Managing Editor Bruce Upbin and... |
| 24.03.2015 | SXSW Interactive 2015: Our future selves, a maturing health tech industry and why failing is productive | By Judy Wang
In 2012, when I attended the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference for the first time, health tech was still an emerging field. It was the first year the world’s leading conference for emerging technology and digital... |
| 19.03.2015 | Mobile Web Surfers Again Facing Unexpected Redirects To App Store, Native Apps | Remember the early days of web surfing? You’d be happily browsing through your favorite sites, clicking links – then, boom! – your screen was littered with pop-up advertisements! The problem became so prevalent, people began installing pop-... |
| 13.03.2015 | Kola Tubosun, the Man Behind Yorubaname.com, Shows Us the Future | “We’re not just talking about it. We’re committed to changing the worldwide web’s attitude to African (and other indigenous) languages. We have no excuse for failure.”
We recently reported that the linguist and Fullbright scholar, Kola Tubo... |
| 02.03.2015 | Former NFL Player Becomes Entrepreneur For Social Good | Tishin Donkersley Contributor
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| 27.02.2015 | Storify Founders Leave For Open Source, Baby | They’ve got new tales to tell. After five years running Storify, which lets you collect social media updates into narrative timelines, co-founders Burt Herman and Xavier Damman are leaving the startup which was acquired by Livefyre in 2013.... |
| 26.02.2015 | Net Neutrality Wins: No Blocking, Throttling, or 'Fast Lanes' for the Internet | Federal regulators voted today to approve the most sweeping overhaul of US internet policy in two decades, in a landmark victory for net neutrality advocates and a bitter defeat for telecom industry giants and their allies in Congress.
In a... |
| 03.02.2015 | No, Twitterati, Gen. Alexander Didn't Leave His Laptop Unattended on Amtrak | I'm going to let this exchange on Twitter this morning speak for itself.
[View the story "Facts Too Good to Check on Keith Alexander's Laptop" on Storify] And for the record, no, I don't have General Alexander's cell phone number,... |
| 21.01.2015 | WhatsApp Cracks Down On Third-Party Apps, Temporarily Bans Their Users From Its Service | WhatsApp, the mobile (and now web!) messaging client Facebook acquired for now roughly $22 billion, is beginning to make things more difficult for customers who use third-party clients to access its service. While the official app is the mo... |
| 18.01.2015 | Foreign Founders Should Look Beyond Silicon Valley | Sten Tamkivi Contributor
ten Tamkivi is the CEO and co-founder of Teleport. He was previously an early executive at Skype and an Entrepreneur in Residence at Andreessen Horowitz.
Silicon Valley generally believes it’s the ideal place to be ... |
| 12.12.2014 | Senator Feinstein Rebuts CIA on Twitter | Yesterday, as CIA Director John Brennan spoke about the release of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's Study of CIA Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Senator Dianne Feinsten (D-CA) live tweeted her responses. You can find the ful... |
| 03.12.2014 | Defining digital leadership: Entrepreneurs and governments both have a role | Economic figures released this week show Australia is heading into a tough period, making things harder is our business and political leaders don’t understand how technology is changing the world’s economy.
Last Thursday in Sydney a group o... |
| 24.11.2014 | Google and Xbox music will no longer count against T-Mobile data caps | Google Play Music on Android.
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| 18.11.2014 | So Uber isn’t going to fire that exec who suggested an attack on journalists | Uber, a famously combative company, is under fire for comments made by senior VP Emil Michael, who suggested at a dinner party that the company should dig up dirt on journalists, including Pando’s Sarah Lacy, in reaction to critical coverag... |
| 17.11.2014 | NYC to blanket the city in free public Wi-Fi with 10,000 stations | One of the LinkNYC booths that will bring free Wi-Fi to New York's streets. reader comments 89 with 53 posters participating
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| 05.11.2014 | TGAC workshop explores programming for life scientists | TGAC workshop explores programming for life scientists
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The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) hosted a workshop run by Software Carpentry that offered attendees insight into how to train a life science audience in computing and progra... |
| 04.11.2014 | Tumblr Users Protest New Image Size Change, Claiming It Broke GIFs And Photosets | Another change to a social networking site, another user-driven backlash. Nearly 50,000 Tumblr users have now signed a petition asking the Yahoo-owned blogging platform to reverse its decision to increase the image size requirements, claimi... |
| 28.10.2014 | Startup West – Party Wrap-Up | On Friday 24th October 2014 the startup community in Perth came together at the Whipper Snapper Distillery to fraternise with alcohol and celebrate the community with a festival style event called Startup West (StartupWest.org.au).
If you d... |
| 20.10.2014 | #GamerGate Is The Future Of Troll Politics | I’ve refrained from talking about GamerGate because the entire thing has been so baffling. The hysteria and name-calling seemed counter-productive and, as a veteran of many flame wars (see BlackBerry, Notion Ink, and Palm) I saw all the sig... |
| 07.10.2014 | Social Curation Platform Storify Gets A Redesign With Support For Group Collaboration | Storify, a service that allows users to curate tweets, photos, and other social media posts to create a coherent story, is getting a new design. More than just giving the product a new look, the redesign supports an important new feature — ... |
| 19.09.2014 | Whisper used to document man's standoff with police | Might Whisper become another Twitter, aka a social network that can affect social change?
(Updated with further comment from Whisper)
Well, this is definitely a new, and pretty interesting, way to use secret-sharing app Whisper.
An incident... |
| 17.09.2014 | How It's Supposed To Work: Twitter Sleuths Nab Hate Crime Perps | While we’ve covered several instances in the past of local law enforcement actually using Twitter and social media services productively in order to capture criminals, as opposed to when they use Twitter horribly, it’s far more fun to show ... |
| 08.09.2014 | TheFamily Launches TheFamily Full Stack, A Risky Bet On Full Stack Startup Investment | French startup accelerator TheFamily is launching a new project called TheFamily Full Stack. As the name suggests, a small part of TheFamily team will now focus on full stack startup investments.
The company will set aside $1.3 million (€1 ... |
| 14.08.2014 | Why #Ferguson Wasn’t Trending For Some Social Media Users Last Night | As the situation worsened for a fifth night in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, where protestors were met with rubber bullets and tear gas, journalists were arrested, and many were asking how something like this could happen in A... |
| 07.08.2014 | My Twitter Exchange with Glenn Greenwald this Morning | The thing kind of speaks for itself:
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| 21.07.2014 | GovHack 2014 Produced Some Ripper Projects | Governments collect and publish enormous amounts of data, but have limited resources to get it into the hands of their citizens in engaging ways.
GovHack is an event to draw together people from government, industry, academia and of course,... |
| 11.07.2014 | World Cup Highlight Twitter Bot Suspended After FIFA Takedown Request | And here’s the corner from the DMCA…it’s a line drive…right at FIFA, who’s on a run – FIFA with the header…GOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
In other words, FIFA has successfully petitioned Twitter to suspend the increasingly popular @ReplayLastGo... |
| 06.07.2014 | The Foreign Policy Essay: Calculated Caliphate | Editor’s Note: The conquest of Mosul and other cities in Iraq by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has alarmed the United States and its allies and electrified the Sunni jihadist community. On Monday, ISIS went one step further, ch... |
| 10.06.2014 | eBay’s local delivery plans unravel: eBay Now may shut down (Updated) | Updated 4:41 p.m. ET with additional comments from eBay.
Two years after launching its local delivery service eBay Now, eBay plans to shut it down, a VentureBeat source claims.
Born out of the $75 million acquisition of Milo, eBay’s local t... |
