March 8, 2008
NYT > Technology / By EVE TAHMINCIOGLU
Technology like Web streaming has made online learning more like a real classroom experience. ...
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March 8, 2008
NYT > Technology / By JOHN MARKOFF
Last year, Nintendo Wii and the Apple iPhone began to break down the logjam in technological innovation for the way humans interact with computers. ...
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- GottaBeMobile: Changing Interactions
- The Biz: Voice Commands To Improve Data Input on Small Devi ...
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- WinBeta: Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine
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March 9, 2008
Washington Post / Lori Aratani
When Matt Florian signed onto his Facebook account recently to check the status of his 400-plus friends, he had a friend request. ...
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- Newsvine - technolog ...: When Mom or Dad Asks To Be a Facebook 'Friend'
- Prometheus 6 - All r ...: "Just go onto their computers and delete their acc ...
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March 9, 2008
Washington Post / Ariana Eunjung Cha
GAOLONG, China -- The first time Li Gengxuan saw the dump trucks from the nearby factory pull into his village, he couldn't believe what happened. Stopping between the cornfields and the primary schoo ...
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- Life On This Rock: Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China
- Don Surber: Just ask me
- PrairiePundit: Polution from "clean" energy
- Egotistical Whining: It seems that solar energy firms are polluting Chi ...
- Fueling Station | ta ...: Going solar produces a toxic disaster in China
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A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows. ... Investigation finds...
Darkly illustrated and full of gruesome historical facts, a Holocaust-themed game called Imagination Is the Only Escape will not be distributed in U.S. markets. ... Last month, when a 21-year-old British video game developer named Luc Bernard posted a description on his...
With a smooth countdown and good forecast, everything seemed to be going NASA's way for Tuesday's planned liftoff of shuttle Endeavour on a long and arduous space station mission. ... "We're feeling really good about an attempt Tuesday morning," launch director Mike...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea named a female mechanical engineer Monday to become the country's first person in space by going aboard a Russian spacecraft, after Moscow rejected Seoul's first choice because of rule violations during training. ... The Ministry of...
The Internet is aflame with word that Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the latest release for the Wii and probably one of the most anticipated console games ever, doesn’t work on some machines. ... Destructoid also has some juicy information, including reports that...
Reuters - By Philip Pullella - Mar. 10 (Special Report) - Thou shall not pollute the Earth. Thou shall beware genetic manipulation. Modern times bring with them modern sins. So the Vatican has told the faithful that they should be aware of "new" sins such as causing environmental blight.
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The American - By Christina Hoff Sommers - Mar. 10 (News Analysis) - Math 55 is advertised in the Harvard catalog as "probably the most difficult undergraduate math class in the country." It is legendary among high school math prodigies, who hear terrifying stories about it in their computer camps and at the Math Olympiads. Some go to Harvard just to have the opportunity to enroll in it. Its formal title is "Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra," but it is also known as "math boot camp" and "a cult...
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Associated Press - By Jeff Donn, Martha Mendoza, Justin Pritchard - Mar. 10 (Special Report) - A vast array of pharmaceuticals (AP) -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
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ScienceDaily - Mar. 10 (News Report) - A combination of negative mother-daughter relationships and low blood levels of serotonin, an important brain chemical for mood stability, may be lethal for adolescent girls, leaving them vulnerable to engage in self-harming behaviors such as cutting themselves.
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PBS - By Charlie Rose - Mar. 10 (Interview) - (VIDEO 22:19) Chris Anderson quotes: "Most media have always been free because a third party pays. What the web does is take that "third party pay" model and takes to anything else that can be made digital: software, services of all sorts, etc." (...) "By writing [my] book in public, I got a flood of data that made the book better."
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New York Times - By Louise Story - Mar. 10 (News Report) - A new analysis of online consumer data shows that large Web companies are learning more about people than ever from what they search for and do on the Internet, gathering clues about the tastes and preferences of a typical user several hundred times a month.
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Last week Steve Jobs took the stage at the Apple Town hall meeting and announced two major things for the iPhone: 1) support for Microsoft Exchange and 2) the iPhone SDK. The Exchange support was an unexpected move, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense. In order to unseat Blackberry as the...
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
A Couple of My Rules for Startups — My buddy Jason had a GREAT post about rules for startups. Read it, love it learn it. — Of course, anyone who has started a company has their own rules and guidelines, so I thought i would add to the meme with my own.
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----AMD today announced a collaboration with TopCoder, the leader in software development programming competitions, to host quarterly coding competitions throughout 2008 focused on advancing multi-threading application development for multi-core processor architectures.
Haroon Malik / Gizmodo:
Paul McCartney Signs $400 Million iTunes Deal For The Beatles Catalog — Finally! Paul McCartney has signed a $400 million deal, which will see the Beatles catalog make its way to iTunes, at long last. — Though McCartney will probably make off with the lion's share of the cash sum …
March 8, 2008
NYT > Technology / By Paul Meller, IDG News Service\Brussels Bureau, IDG
Intel is preparing to defend some of its questionable business dealings with PC makers at an antitrust hearing with European regulators and competitors next week. ...
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