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Update on Course Accessibility for Students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syriablog.coursera.org
Providing access to education for everyone has always been at the core of Coursera’s mission, and it is with deep regret that we have had to make a change to our accessibility in some... -
news.ycombinator.com
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How I lost my $50,000 Twitter usernamethenextweb.com
Naoki Hiroshima is the creator of Cocoyon and a developer for Echofon. This post originally appeared on Naoki's Medium blog and has been republished with permission. I had a ... -
US bans students from "blacklisted" countries from getting a free educationhummusforthought.com
I'm following a Coursera course entitled "Constitutional Struggles in the Muslim World" and just received a rather odd email. All students from Syria, Sudan, Iran and Cuba will no longer be able to... -
Google is bringing Chrome apps to iOS and Android, developers start building nowthenextweb.com
Google today launched Chrome apps for Android and iOS. The company is offering an early developer preview of a toolchain based on Apache Cordova, an open-source mobile development framework ... -
github.com
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As Facebook Turns 10, Zuckerberg Wants to Change How Tech Industry Worksbits.blogs.nytimes.com
A Facebook-sponsored, open-source software group met at the San Jose Convention Center Tuesday, and the Facebook chief executive made an unscheduled appearance. Among his geeky tribe, he gave an uncharacteristically clear sense of his ambitions. And yo... -
How I lost my $50,000 Twitter usernamethenextweb.com
Naoki Hiroshima is the creator of Cocoyon and a developer for Echofon. This post originally appeared on Naoki's Medium blog and has been republished with permission. I had a ... -
Let banks fail: Iceland's plan looks to be workingbusiness.financialpost.com
Iceland is finding that crisis-management decisions made half a decade ago have put it on a trajectory that’s turned 2 percent unemployment into a realistic goal -
Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade - The Economic Timeseconomictimes.indiatimes.com
Life expectancy has gone up by 5 years, from 62.3 years for males and 63.9 years for females in 2001-2005 to 67.3 years and 69.6 years respectively in 2011-2015. -
Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenuearstechnica.com
Holding company Vringo used old Lycos patents to wrest a win worth many millions. -
The Internet Is the Greatest Legal Facilitator of Inequality in Human Historytheatlantic.com
It doesn't have to be. - wolframalpha.com
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How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Usernamemedium.com
A story of how PayPal and GoDaddy allowed the attack and caused me to lose my $50,000 Twitter username. -
Imgur rolls out crazy useful viral image analytics dashboardventurebeat.com
Image sharing community Imgur is launching a new tool that will help people track the images they upload across the web, the company announced today. The new image analytics dashboard lets uploader... -
First-Ever Porsche Rediscovered: Electric Power from 1898!ca.finance.yahoo.com
When you ask most people what the first car ever made was, Americans typically (and wrongly) answer the Model T Ford. Sure, that was the first mass-produced automobile, thus making it affordable to the average consumer, but the 1908 Model T was far fro... -
IE7 users, we need to talk…nursingjobs.us
Wayne Gretzky once said "skate where the puck is going, not where it's been" and, in the fast-evolving world of technology, this is sound advice that we have taken to heart as we launched the new NursingJobs.us job board. The new site uses a more moder... -
Josh Kopelmandrt.fm
In this interview, Josh Kopelman Founder of First Round Capital reveals what characterises a great entrepreneur and what type of investments he's interested in. -
Decentralizing Docker: How to Use Serf with Docker | CTL-C Blogblog.ctl-c.io
In last week's post, we talked about how to create a 2-container application with Docker. Now we want to use a brand new project called Serf (from the makers of Vagrant) to have the containers lear...