Source: Guardian Unlimited
A burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Intel is a $53bn-a-year company that enjoys a near monopoly on the computer chips that go into PCs. But when it comes to the data underlying big companies like Faceb ...
Full article at: Guardian Unlimited
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Source: Wired
Early this morning Yahoo announced would be acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash – roughly a quarter of the purchase price Disney put up for Lucasfilm – and promised to “not screw it up.” Naturally, there were some long-ti ...
Full article at: Wired
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Source: ABC News
Yahoo! is buying Tumblr it seems, and there's nothing we can do about it. Media companies (like Yahoo!, NewsCorp., Google) often look at the acquisition of large platforms with millions of users as an opportunity to grab a wider audience for thems ...
Full article at: ABC News
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Source: The Huge Entity
On a 5-acre plot in Great Falls, Virginia, less than a mile’s stroll through exurban scrub from the wide Potomac River, Alex Hawkinson has breathed life into a lifeless object. He has given his house, a sprawling six-bedr ...
Full article at: The Huge Entity
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Source: The Verge
In sheer numbers, these microbes and their genes dwarf us. It turns out that we are only 10 percent human: for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are about 10 resident microbes. Albums by megabands like Fleetwood ...
Full article at: The Verge
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Source: Slashdot
This appears to be a story depicting a sort-of utopian future (of limited extent - an island) where there are no rules. I'm not sure from the context whether the author is in favor or against the concept. It somehow feels like he ...
Full article at: Slashdot
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Source: Hack Education
Google held its annual developer conference this week, and during Wednesday’s keynote, the company touted its work in education, including the growing adoption of Google Apps for Education (some 25+ million users worldwide) and Chromeboo ...
Full article at: Hack Education
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Source: techPresident
Top officials from President Barack Obama's campaign arm, which was recently rechristened as Organizing for Action, are working to dampen the passionate grassroots opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, j ...
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