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The Best Films of the Decade So Far (2010-2014)

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Jan 11, 2015

LEAKED: The Hard Questions Yahoo Employees Asked Marissa Mayer

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Click here to buy "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!" on Amazon. Mario Tama/Getty Images My book, " Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!, " opens with Mayer onstage at an all-company meeting hosted in Yahoo's huge cafeteria, called URLs. The point of the meeting was for Mayer to…

Jan 9, 2015

Patent Troll Can't Stop People From Accessing Their Medical Records Online Anymore

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You must comply with a new law that was just passed, but doing so means you are probably violating one of our patents. So you might as well pay up now. This is essentially what a demand letter sent by MyMedicalRecords, Inc., an electronic health records provider with numerous broad patents, could…

Jan 9, 2015

Who pays for us to browse the web? Be wary of Google’s latest answer

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Virtually everything Google does revolves around data collection and data personalisation. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP G oogle has quietly launched a new service, Google Contributor, and it’s based on an intriguing proposition: for a small monthly fee, you won’t see any ads on the websites of its…

Jan 9, 2015

The Future of Human Computer Interaction — Medium

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10 characteristics of a new generation of user interfaces. Senic Jan 8, 2015 We (Senic, YC S13) just launched our product the “Nuimo”, a programmable controller for your computer and connected devices. We see the need for a new generation of user interfaces. There seems to be a split about this in…

Jan 9, 2015

New Year's Resolution: Getting Your Brain Back

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When you think about it, that brain of yours is both the cause of and the solution to every one of your problems. With the right thoughts, you can trigger yourself into actions that will change your life – or even the entire world. With the wrong thoughts and actions you can just as quickly end up…

Jan 9, 2015

Inside Trello, the venture-backed task-list app that’s determined to get big fast

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Above: The Fog Creek Software office in New York. Image Credit: Jordan Novet/VentureBeat NEW YORK — Over the summer, highly regarded New York software development shop Fog Creek Software spun out Trello , a product that a couple of developers had cobbled together three years earlier to help people…

Jan 9, 2015

Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare — NOVA Next | PBS

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Cyber warfare used to be the stuff of sci-fi movies and military exercises. But with the advent of the Stuxnet worm, the Sony Pictures hacking—which was allegedly carried out with the backing of the North Korean government—and this week’s assault on German government websites, large-scale cyber…

Jan 9, 2015

The Vulgar Mechanic and His Magical Oven - Issue 20: Creativity - Nautilus

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B y the time Cornelis Drebbel built an oven with a simple thermostat, one of the first manmade feedback mechanisms in history, in the 1620s, he was regarded in Europe as a magisterial, if not mad, inventor. He had already enchanted royalty and common people alike with elaborate clocks,…

Jan 9, 2015

Windows 10’s new browser will have the most advanced features ever

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Microsoft is planning to radically overhaul its web browser in Windows 10. Sources familiar with the company’s Windows plans tell The Verge that the new browser, codenamed Spartan , will include a host of new features not found in rival browsers. Chief among the plans for Spartan is new inking…

Jan 9, 2015

Google Loses Most Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo Gains

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Google Inc.’s dominance of the U.S. Internet search market slipped last month in the biggest drop since 2009 while Yahoo! Inc. posted its largest share gain, as the companies grappled with the fallout of a search deal on Firefox browsers. Google’s slice of the U.S. search market fell to 75.2 percent…

Jan 9, 2015

MI5 chief seeks new powers after Paris magazine attack

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The Metropolitan police's two-minute silence outside New Scotland Yard in London in solidarity with those affected by the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. Photograph: Philip Toscano/PA The head of MI5 , Andrew Parker, has called for new powers to help fight Islamist extremism, warning of a dangerous…

Jan 9, 2015

Back to the Future | News | Mailman School of Public Health

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In a study of smallpox in the mid-1800s, pioneering British epidemiologist William Farr made the astonishing discovery that the rate and duration of the epidemic’s rise was mirrored in its decline. More than 150 years later, researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health have taken Farr’s Law…

Jan 9, 2015

Third Time's The Charm? House To Take Another Stab At Terrible CISPA Internet Bill

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4:37 PM EDT By all of this has happened before... here we go again cispa congress laws bills privacy Not unlike a mummy, the reanimated corpse of a bad bill that just doesn’t know when to stay dead is once again coming to the floor of a Congress near you this week. Tomorrow, the Cyber Intelligence…

Jan 9, 2015

A Cyberattack Has Caused Confirmed Physical Damage for the Second Time Ever

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Getty Images Amid all the noise the Sony hack generated over the holidays, a far more troubling cyber attack was largely lost in the chaos. Unless you follow security news closely, you likely missed it. I’m referring to the revelation, in a German report released just before Christmas (.pdf), that…

Jan 9, 2015

US must not forget its history of dispossession – Claudio Saunt – Aeon

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Between 1776 and the present, the United States seized some 1.5 billion acres from North America’s native peoples, an area 25 times the size of the United Kingdom. Many Americans are only vaguely familiar with the story of how this happened. They perhaps recognise Wounded Knee and the Trail of…

Jan 9, 2015

Cyberattack in Germany Shuts Down Official Sites

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BERLIN — At least three official German websites, including Chancellor Angela Merkel ’s page, were inaccessible on Wednesday after an apparent cyberattack. A group demanding that Germany sever ties with Ukraine and halt financial and political support for the government in the capital, Kiev, claimed…

Jan 9, 2015

“A Toast to Your Health”: Getting Drunk in Colonial America—Blog

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A rowdy detail from Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam , which was painted onto a bed sheet in 1758. To say colonists living in early American society were enthusiastic about drinking would be a remarkable understatement. Modern estimates place the annual amount consumed by the colonists somewhere…

Jan 9, 2015

Teach Yourself Logic: A Study Guide (and other Book Notes) | Logic Matters

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Quick links Teach Yourself Logic 2017: A Study Guide (find it on academia.edu by preference, or here ) Book Notes (links to 35 book-by-book webpages, the content overlapping with the Appendix) In more detail, on TYL Most philosophy departments, and many maths departments too, teach little or no…

Jan 9, 2015

Thync, the craziest thing at CES, zapped my brain

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I got up at 4am Tuesday morning. It was still dark. I had only slept four hours, five tops. I ate a banana, nothing else. I then walked about two or three miles in the dry Vegas sun. I was sluggish, tired, and I had that gnawing feeling in the back of your throat when you’re getting sick. And then,…

Jan 9, 2015

Body of Knowledge: New Machine Can See Bones, Organs in Stunning Detail

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Computed Tomography (CT) scanners are often the first imaging technology many patients encounter when doctors suspect serious disease or injury. Radiologists use the machines to create detailed images of the insides of their bodies. Top image: A high-definition image of the skull and the Circle…

Jan 9, 2015

The Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages inside a pop song

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How the Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages… using a pop song Colonel Jose Espejo was a man with a problem. As the Colombian army’s communications expert watched the grainy video again, he saw kidnapped soldiers chained up inside barbed-wire pens in a hostage camp deep in the jungle,…

Jan 9, 2015

The Physiology of Foie: Why Foie Gras is Not Unethical

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[Photographs: Robyn Lee and J. Kenji López-Alt] I haven't always been comfortable with foie gras, though I've spent a good chunk of my life working with it. At first, the discomfort was with the taste. I tried it first as a teenager in the form of a cold terrine that tasted mostly of cat food to me.…

Jan 9, 2015

Most of America’s rich think the poor have it easy

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There is little empathy at the top. Most of America's richest think poor people have it easy in this country, according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center. The center surveyed a nationally representative group of people this past fall, and found that the majority of the country's…

Jan 9, 2015

Sorry iPhone Users: Apple’s Dev Agreement Means No EFF Mobile App for iOS

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Today we launched a new app that will make it easier for people to take action on digital rights issues using their phone. The app allows folks to connect to our action center quickly and easily, using a variety of mobile devices. Sadly, though, we had to leave out Apple devices and the folks who…

Jan 9, 2015

Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s

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The history repeats itself crowd thinks that that there must be a bubble sooner or later. “Now?” they constantly ask, “Is it a bubble now?” as if history has to repeat whatever was most memorable about the last time. History may repeat itself, but there’s an awful lot of history that this particular…

Jan 9, 2015