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Does the FCC really not get it about the Internet?washingtonpost.com
An essay by Brett Frischmann on the FCC's false distinction between "edge providers" and "end users" in their currently proposed Open Internet (aka Net Neutrality) rules. -
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How Uber Is Changing Night Life in Los Angelesnytimes.com
A growing contingent of urbanites have made Ubering (it’s as much a verb as “Googling”) an indispensable part of their day and especially their night life. -
Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine | TorrentFreaktorrentfreak.com
Disney has just obtained a patent for a search engine that ranks sites based on various "authenticity" factors. One of the goals of the technology is to filter pirated material from search results while boosting the profile of copyright and trademark h... -
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Cantonese Proverbs in One Picturewritecantonese8.wordpress.com
The Great Canton and Hong Kong Proverbs" : illustrations of 83 Cantonese proverbs in one picture -
Let's Try Acme: Ep. 0 - Research - Dev and Suchechosa.github.io
In the vein of the popular “Let’s Play” videos, I’ve decided to start a blog post series of “Let’s Try“ -
A phoenix riseseconomist.com
Ready for take-off? SOME technologies look wonderful on paper but don’t quite make it in the big, bad world. Airships. Autogyros. Hovercraft. They all work. They... -
AI Websites That Design Themselvesthegrid.io
This is not another do-it-yourself website builder. The Grid harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to take everything you throw at it - videos, images, text, urls and more - and automatically shape them into a custom website unique to you. As ... -
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Edward Tufte forum: PowerPoint Does Rocket Science--and Better Techniques for Technical Reportsedwardtufte.com
Edward Tufte home page for books, posters, sculpture, fine art and one-day course: Presenting Data and Information -
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Why Innocent People Plead Guilty by Jed S. Rakoffnybooks.com
The criminal justice system in the United States today bears little relationship to what the Founding Fathers contemplated, what the movies and television portray, or what the average American believes. -
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Talk: Keeping secrets with JavaScript - An Introduction to the WebCrypto API - Tim Tauberttimtaubert.de
Talk: Keeping secrets with JavaScript - An Introduction to the WebCrypto API October, 29th 2014 With the web slowly maturing as a platform the … -
Artificial intelligence: machine v man - FT.comft.com
The scene in the cramped office in Berkeley on a recent Saturday feels like a typical start-up carried along by the tech boom, with engineers working through the weekend in a race against time. The long whiteboard down one wall has been scrawled over -
A plutocratic proposalmosaicscience.com
If mega-rich people could buy places on clinical trials, would this help drive forward the development of new treatments that could benefit everyone? Alexander Masters thinks it might just work. -
Barnacle gosling’s terrifying cliff tumblebbc.com
Filmmakers record the extreme rite of passage of barnacle goslings as they plummet over 120m down a cliff face -
The early days of the Internet in Cambridgefanf.livejournal.com
I'm currently in the process of uplifting our DNS development / operations repository from SCCS (really!) to git. This is not entirely trivial because I want to ensure that all the archival material is retained in a sensible way. I found an interesting... -
Demystifying the MOOCnytimes.com
Massive open online courses haven’t changed the world of education. The average user is a white American man with a degree already. But that doesn’t mean they’re failures.