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(http://news.cnet.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted in 1965 that the number of transistors on a microprocessor would double approximately every two years--a prediction that has proved to be remarkably resilient. But IBM Fellow Carl Anderson, who researches se...
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(http://blog.wired.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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A unifying theory of winged locomotion could explain the magical mid-air maneuvers of birds and insects, and guide the design of flying robots.
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(http://www.eurekalert.org)
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over 4 years ago
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Casinos drain money from consumer products and services, weakening the economic engine that ultimately drives defense spending, according to the latest volume in the three-part United States International Gambling Report Series.
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(http://www.nytimes.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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Bradley Inman wants to create great fiction, dramatic online video and compelling Twitter stream — and then roll them all into a multimedia hybrid that is tailored to the rapidly growing number of digital reading devices.
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(http://www.techcrunch.com)
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over 4 years ago
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This discussion begets a bigger question. Will we need a separate Technorati-type index for measuring the authority of content publishers on Twitter and other micro-media in their own right? Of course we do.
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(http://hunch.net)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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Langford zeroes in on some of the core disparate fields of prediction studies and argues for the need to unify/centralize these programs. To my mind, it's clear that these areas are converging and that at the center lies a new systems framework f...
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(http://yalelawjournal.org)
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over 4 years ago
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Josh Fairfield, Yale Law Journal - "I argue in this brief essay that as government enters virtual worlds it should respect basic privacy rights. For intelligence and law enforcement purposes, this most importantly includes the question of whe...
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(http://www.techcrunch.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania argues that the Internet shatters all forms of advertising. “The problem is not the medium, the problem is the message, and the fact that i...
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(http://www.technologyreview.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Study:"Our results show that some countries known for their national policies, such as Iran and China, have relatively little effect on interdomain routing, while three countries (the United States, Great Britain, and Germany) are central to ...
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(http://www.theness.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Nice analysis of the recent findings the self-oganized criticality is found in the human brain system. ---
"Manfred Kitzbichler and his coauthors decided to look at brain function to see if it also has the features of self-organized critical...
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(http://www.edge-online.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Nintendo claims that the sales figures of Wii Play and Wii Remotes demonstrate the console’s strength as a “social hub”.
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