Technological savvy part of senior’s drive to help others

Source: Kane County Chronicle

ST. CHARLES – Brian Ricketts had no trouble falling in love with robots. After all, as he tells it, robotics have become an essential part of his life. “There aren’t many people that can say they have a microprocessor in their leg,” Ricketts said, with ...
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600 dollar shoes? Not for Mrs Zuckerberg

Source: NDTV

Palo Alto (California): The wedding of Mark Zuckerberg to Priscilla Chan last weekend here in the backyard of their $7 million home had all the staging of a carefully orchestrated celebrity event. A publicist for Facebook eagerly offered ph ...
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MuniLand Snaps: May 25

Source: Reuters Blogs

Todd Park, the U.S.’s chief technology officer, calls for all “bad-ass” coders to serve a short stint in the federal government doing computer programming. Here is more from Techcrunch. Marketplace Radio: How will Califo ...
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The Art of Computer Typography

Source: Hacker News

We didn’t want our papers just to be there, we wanted them to be beautiful. I wouldn’t have wanted to write The Art of Computer Programming if it was going to look ugly. Ever since I came across Jürg Lehni’s essay on typographic technology and digital fo ...
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HC directs MU to release results of engineering students

Source: MSN India

Mumbai, May 25 (PTI) The Bombay High Court today directed the University of Mumbai to decide within a week the results of three engineering students which were on hold after their answer sheets were lost in an ...
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So What Does It Mean to Be a Geek?

Source: Wired

Back in a previous life, when I was studying for an A.M. in social sciences at the University of Chicago, I did some thinking about group formation. This was right at the end of the Balkans War. One of the things ...
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Will.i.am: I can't sing that well

Source: Belfast Telegraph

Will.i.am confesses that he uses "autotune" computer programming on his vocals. The Black Eyed Peas bandmember and music producer is currently a judge on UK talent show The Voice. Will.i.am has an illustrious career as a composer of songs, b ...
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Google vows to fund teachers and Raspberry Pi computers in UK schools

Source: V3.co.uk

Google will join forces with English charity Teach Now to promote ICT education in the UK. The web giant will team up with the charity to fund over 100 ICT and science teachers in low income communities. The team up hopes to address the U ...
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Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads

Source: The New York Times

The heroine of this year’s best beach read was beheaded 476 years ago. The most chilling nonfiction spy story unfolds in cyberspace. The coolest biographical subject is a comic-book character. The hottest history is recent. The most amazing ac ...
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