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How the Web Became Our ‘External Brain,’ and What It Means for Our Kids | Opinion | WIREDwired.com
Search YouTube for “baby” and “iPad” and you’ll find clips featuring one-year-olds attempting to manipulate magazine pages and television screens as though they were touch-sensitive displays. These children are one step away from assuming that such tec... - openssl.org
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Twitch implements YouTube-like system for blocking copyrighted audiopolygon.com
Twitch users now need to be more vigilant about the music they play while making gameplay videos. Starting today, Twitch is now scanning videos for unauthorized third-party audio — in-game and... -
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Announcing Mapbox GL for the Webmapbox.com
Announcing Mapbox GL JS — a fast and powerful new system for web maps. Mapbox GL JS is a client-side renderer, so it uses JavaScript and WebGL to dynamically draw... - yosefk.com
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Long Island Weather Observer Sets U.S. Record With 84-Year Streaknytimes.com
Richard G. Hendrickson has been giving the Weather Service daily readings from Bridgehampton for 84 years, the longest unbroken streak in the service’s history. -
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Against the Smart Cityurbanomnibus.net
Adam Greenfield critiques the prevailing definition of the "smart city" and calls for an alternative vision that understands and responds to the messy realities of human existence. -
Kale, cauliflower, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts are all the same species of plantvox.com
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China Corporate Espionage Boom Knocks Wind Out of U.S. Companiesbloomberg.com
Last June, three men squeezed inside a wind turbine in China’s Gobi Desert. They were employees of American Superconductor Corp., a maker of computer systems that serve as the electronic brains of the device. From time to time, AMSC workers are require... -
Storm Chasing on Saturnnytimes.com
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is trying to help scientists understand the seemingly supernatural shape of a gigantic hurricane, larger than the Earth, on the solar system’s most photogenic planet. -
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Garry Kasparov, the Man Who Would Be Kingnytimes.com
As he vies for the presidency of the governing body of world chess, Garry Kasparov can’t escape his fiercest opponent: the president of Russia. -
Duke’s Legacy: Video Game Source Disc Preservation at the Library of Congress | The Signal: Digital Preservationblogs.loc.gov
Duke’s Legacy: Video Game Source Disc Preservation at the Library of Congress. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2014-08-06. -
Hummingbirds vs. Micro UAVs: Who's the Best Flyer? - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
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Md. commission rules Uber is 'common carrier,' will face regulationsbaltimoresun.com
The popular ridesharing company Uber Technologies is a "common carrier" and is subject to the same regulations imposed on other passenger-for-hire services in the state, the Maryland Public Service Commission ruled Wednesday.