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Five Tips for a Safer Internet Day 2012

Christopher Burgess | Posted 02.07.2012 | Technology

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Lose one, and the criminals will find a way to exploit them all. Easy way to remember that was given to me many years ago: Passwords are like toothbrushes; you don't share them and you change them regularly.

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MegaUpload: le dossier accablant de la justice US

www.numerama.com | Posted 01.20.2012 | Home

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L'acte d'accusation à l'encontre de MegaUpload met à jour le système mis en place par son richissime fondateur pour encourager financièrement le p...

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Small Data on Big Data

Stephen W.T. O'Keeffe | Posted 01.11.2012 | Technology

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Brace yourself -- Big Data is the new IT buzz phrase coming to the Beltway. So, what is Big Data and why should we care?

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Zuccotti Park Protest Lives on, in Augmented Reality App

Amelia Marzec | Posted 01.10.2012 | Technology

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If you missed seeing the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park, there's another chance for you to experience the occupation at the original site.

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Best of TEDTalks 2011, #14: Consent of the Networked -- Fight for Your Online Rights, or Lose Them

Rebecca MacKinnon | Posted 02.06.2012 | Technology

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It is at the emergent digital intersection between corporate and political power where the most subtle and insidious threat to democracy lies.

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Rebecca MacKinnon On Internet Freedom

Posted 12.09.2011 | Technology

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Best of TEDTalks 2011, #15: Self-Driving Cars Roll Their Way In

Sebastian Thrun | Posted 02.05.2012 | Technology

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Self-driving cars can make traffic safer, as they never blink or focus on switching the radio station. They have no blind spots, and they can simultaneously process information at a rate that no human can match.

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Sebastian Thrun: Google's Driverless Car

Posted 12.09.2011 | Technology

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Best of TEDTalks 2011 #16: The Birth of a Word

Deb Roy | Posted 02.04.2012 | Technology

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We are creating learning systems to interpret the intended meaning of social media comments made "in the wild." We call our television dataset the TV Genome.

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Deb Roy: The Birth Of A Word

Posted 12.09.2011 | Technology

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Best of TEDTalks 2011 #17: On Regret (Premiere)

Kathryn Schulz | Posted 02.01.2012 | Technology

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At a time of year when most people are looking to the future and enumerating their resolutions for the new year, I encourage you to take a moment and dwell on your regrets instead.

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Kathryn Schulz On Regret (Premiere)

Posted 12.09.2011 | Technology

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Kevin Slavin: How Algorithms Shape Our World

Ted | Posted 12.09.2011 | Technology

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Occupy Research: Methods and Tools for a Decentralized Future

Amelia Marzec | Posted 01.25.2012 | Technology

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To decrease reliance on corporate media, protestors are moving towards building their own open source tools. Hackathons have been organized in New York, Boston, DC and San Francisco. The projects are available on Github so different camps can download and run them locally.

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A Farewell to BlackBerry: The End of the Affair

Richard Laermer | Posted 01.11.2012 | Small Business

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BlackBerry Inc. has sadly morphed into one more in a long list of corporate doofuses whose right hand and left hand refuse to communicate.

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Unthink, The 'Anti-Facebook,' Wants To Free You From Social Networking 'Dictatorship'

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 01.01.2012 | Technology

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Unthink has four words for Facebook: "The jig is up." The new social networking site seeks to unseat the likes of Twitter, Google+ and Facebook wit...

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Too Many Startups, Too Little Cash

Posted 12.30.2011 | Business

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SAN Francisco (Sarah McBride) -- Venture capitalist Bill Gurley has noticed something new this autumn: a big jump in the number of what he calls "...

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'Think Different'

Jalees Rehman, M.D. | Posted 12.05.2011 | Religion

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In many ways, Steve Jobs was the embodiment of the Apple advertising slogan "Think Different".

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Business Leaders React To Steve Jobs' Death

Posted 12.05.2011 | Business

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Hailed as a visionary innovator, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple, built the company in his image and changed the way users interact with compu...

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The Premature Demise of Daily Deal Sites

Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 12.03.2011 | Technology

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The DD business is not a classic web-based business; it requires aggressive marketing of merchants. Both sales personnel and the merchant must be savvy enough to craft offers that attract customers and turn a profit.

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EXCLUSIVE: Hacked by Anonymous (Video)

Dan McDermott | Posted 11.11.2011 | Technology

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The webmaster for the Texas Police Chief's Association spoke exclusively to me to tell his story about being on the receiving end of an attack by the international hacking group Anonymous and his subsequent dealings with the FBI.

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DOJ's AT&T Suit Shows Law Trumps Politics

Edward J. Black | Posted 11.09.2011 | Technology

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Darwinian competition, not government micromanagement, forces firms to innovate and keeps prices low -- and that is exactly what antitrust intervention is designed to promote.

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BuzzFeed's 10 Most Viral Posts From August 2011 (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Posted 11.01.2011 | Technology

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It's a new month! And that means it's time to take a look back at August's most viral posts, according to viral-tracking website BuzzFeed. Just like t...

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Watch: WikiLeaks Spills Apple's Plan to Fight Chinese Counterfeits

Posted 11.01.2011 | Technology

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Whistleblowing website Wikileaks has published a classified U.S. diplomatic cable, detailing Apple's attempts to crack down on Chinese counterfeits of...

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FCC to AT&T: Is That Your Final Answer?

Joel Kelsey | Posted 10.26.2011 | Business

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The army of lawyers and lobbyists AT&T and T-Mobile have assembled to ram this merger through are going to need more than a conference call or two to make this deal happen.

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