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Mark Zuckerberg: Connecting everyone is one of the fundamental challenges of our generation.online.wsj.com
The Facebook chief writes that connecting everyone on the planet to the Web is one of the fundamental challenges of our generation, with the potential to create opportunity and reduce poverty. -
Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millionsinsights.ubuntu.com
Challenge Munich is the third-largest city in Germany, with approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The local governing body employs more than 33,000 people – 16,000 of whom use PCs as part of their daily roles. Those computers are located at different ... -
The NSA’s Top (and First) PRISM Partner, Microsoft, Lies to Governments and Businesses as Office Gets Banned in China | Techrightstechrights.org
Developments in China reveal that security and privacy threats posed by reliance on Microsoft are so great that a ban becomes inevitable and continues to expand (Microsoft put on more and more block lists and blacklists) -
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Man Raises $10,000 on Kickstarter to Make a Bowl of Potato Salad (Update: Make That $23,000)slate.com
Last week, Zack Brown posted a Kickstarter page titled simply “Potato Salad.” “I’m making potato salad,” Brown wrote. Then, in case anybody was confused or skeptical or more inclined to support the preparation of a German-style potato salad than a mayo... -
Fujitsu Lettuce? In Japan, idled electronics factories find new life in farmingonline.wsj.com
Struggling to compete with rivals in South Korea or China in businesses like televisions and smartphones, a range of Japanese electronics giants are converting idled factories to agriculture. -
Anya Groner: The Heart You Save Won’t Be Your Ownguernicamag.com
Working at an outreach center puts a young idealist on the road to apathy. -
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BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate denierssalon.com
The network will stop airing "debates" featuring members of the anti-science fringe -
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Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universitiescacm.acm.org
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Success! Private Team Fires 36-Year-Old NASA Probe's Enginesspace.com
An old NASA spacecraft under the control of a private team fired its thrusters yesterday (July 2) for the first time in a generation. The ISEE-3 probe performed the maneuver to prep for a larger trajectory correction next week. -
The Government Once Built Silicon Valley | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Last month, I received an invitation to participate in the “Startup Global Design Workshop” hosted by the White House Business Council and Business.. -
practicalswift/Pythonic.swiftgithub.com
Pythonic.swift - Pythonic tool-belt for Swift – a Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library. -
KDE Frameworks 5 Makes KDE Software More Accessible for all Qt Developersdot.kde.org
Today, the KDE community has made available the first stable release of Frameworks 5. At the Randa Meetings back in 2011, we started work on porting KDE Platform 4 to Qt 5. But as part of this effort, we also began modularizing our libraries, integrati... -
Welcome to the Everything Boom, or Maybe the Everything Bubblenytimes.com
Around the world, nearly every asset class is expensive by historical standards. -
Complete DIY guide: legal basics for startups, COO responsibilities • Staply Teamblog.staply.co
Founders Agreement. The right hand. In the first article of the complete DIY guide we’ve discussed how to write the Founders Agreement and more particularly the part that describes the CEO’s responsibilities. There I provided some... | Staply Team | A ...