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  • The Amazon will message authorities when loggers strike

    The Amazon will message authorities when loggers strike By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Technology Brazil­ian author­i­ties hope to com­bat defor­esta­tion in the Ama­zon by fit­ting trees with wire­less loca­tion devices that send out alerts if their host tree is cut down. Invis­i­ble Trac­ck is a device about the size of a… RT @WiredUK: The Amazon will…

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  • Accelerator 2013

    startl.org Applications now open for 2013 Accelerator After a year hia­tus, Startl is again part­ner­ing with DreamIt Ven­tures to offer a very select group of enter­pris­es the oppor­tu­ni­ty to engage in an inten­sive, company-building immer­sion… http://flip.it/1zxEW Accelerator 2013 Related articles Ranking Applicants For An Accelerator (alexstechthoughts.com) DreamIt Health Startup Medlio Has a Virtual Insurance Card:…

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  • How Washington, DC became the capital of bike-sharing in the US

    How Washington, DC became the capital of bike-sharing in the US By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Wash­in­ton, DC was never known for being bike-friendly — but over the last decade, the city is home to the largest and most suc­cess­ful bike-sharing pro­gram in the coun­try. Slate tracks its rise, pin­ning much of the suc­cess on for­mer……

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  • Codecademy teaches users to work with APIs

    Codecademy teaches users to work with APIs from YouTube, NPR and more By Ben Popper, theverge.com Giving novice coders the ability to build on top of other software Since it launched last year, New York start­up Codecad­e­my has helped to fill the huge demand for com­put­er sci­ence edu­ca­tion with free online cours­es in pro­gram­ming… RT…

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  • JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to online literature

    JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to its online academic library By Ben Kersey, theverge.com Online dig­i­tal library JSTOR will begin offer­ing free access to its cat­a­logue of jour­nals, papers, and books. The Reg­is­ter & Read pro­gram will now allow indi­vid­u­als to reg­is­ter for the ser­vice, but mem­bers will only be able to read……

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  • How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language

    How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Futur­ist and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence guru Ray Kurzweil has just start­ed at Google and gave an inter­view to Sin­gu­lar­i­ty Hub days after start­ing his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into nat­ur­al lan­guage… RT @verge: How Google’s Ray Kurzweil…

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  • Keith Ratliff, YouTube’s most famous gun lover, found dead

    Keith Ratliff, YouTube’s most famous gun lover, found dead By Chris Welch, theverge.com Keith Ratliff, whose gun enthu­si­ast YouTube chan­nel FPSRus­sia is among the most pop­u­lar on the video site, was found dead on Jan­u­ary 3rd — killed by a sin­gle shot to the head. Ratliff’s body was dis­cov­ered in the office where he stored……

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  • Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop

    Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop (hands-on) By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com The orig­i­nal Clam­case was one of the most flawed iPad key­boards we tried in our roundup — since then, the com­pa­ny has gone back to the draw­ing board and is now debut­ing a much-improved new model called the…

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  • America’s first bookless public library

    America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’ By Laura June, theverge.com Bexar Coun­ty, Texas says that it will open the first 100 per­cent dig­i­tal pub­lic library sys­tem in the coun­try, unveil­ing plans for its first loca­tion this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, head­ed up…

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  • Spotmaps translates every second of a film into a block of color

    Spotmaps translates every second of a film into a block of color By Amar Toor, theverge.com What can a film’s color scheme say about its nar­ra­tive? Accord­ing to Spotmaps, quite a lot. Cre­at­ed by Andy Willis, Spotmaps is a Python-based project that con­cep­tu­al­izes clas­sic movies not in words or sto­ry­boards, but highly-detailed… RT @verge: Spotmaps…

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  • California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial

    California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial – NYTimes.com http://flip.it/JgDqM http://flip.it/8W5cC   Related articles NYTimes rejects the MOOCopalypse (computinged.wordpress.com) Bill to Create ‘New University of California’ Dies (insidehighered.com) California Bill Brings Online College One Step Closer (tutoringtoexcellence.blogspot.com)

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  • How Minerva Plans To Make Its Affordable, Next-Gen University

    Non-Profit Innovation: How Minerva Plans To Make Its Affordable, Next-Gen University A Reality Rip Empson, techcrunch.com The Min­er­va Project burst onto the scene last year with an ambi­tious goal: To cre­ate the next elite Amer­i­can uni­ver­si­ty, online, and, in so doing, help rethink the role of high­er edu­ca­tion in the Dig­i­tal Era. Not only that,…

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  • The Booming Market for Specialized Master’s Degrees

    (via The Booming Market for Specialized Master’s Degrees – Businessweek) Related articles Foursquare’s New Series D Round Of $41M Helps It Delay Tricky Questions About Its Valuation (techcrunch.com) Bloomberg Businessweek’s Big Story On Samsung Fails To Mention One Of The Biggest Reasons For Samsung’s Success (embargozone.com)

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  • New Gear: Samsung EX2F With f/1.4 lens, WiFi

      popphoto.com Sam­sung’s newest ven­ture into the world of high-end com­pacts is the EX2F, which packs one of the widest aper­tures to be seen in a com­pact cam­era. The EX2F has a 12.4MP 1/1.7-inch CMOS sen­sor, an artic­u­lat­ed 3-inch swiv­el VGA-resolution… http://flip.it/ApdXs New Gear: Samsung EX2F With f/1.4 lens, WiFi Related articles Panasonic launches $500…

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  • Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money

    Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money By Colin Lecher, popsci.com People save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly. Did you know that if you see an age-enhanced ver­sion of your­self, you’re more…

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  • A Tool To Let Companies Design Products Without Harmful Chemicals

    A Tool To Let Companies Design Products Without Harmful Chemicals BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com We all know BPA is bad, but so are a lot of other chemicals we don’t know too much about. A new service lets companies find out if what they’re selling us might end up being the next BPA—so they can…

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  • IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell

    IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell, Within The Next Five Years By Clay Dillow, popsci.com The computing giant’s annual list of technology predictions for the next five years foresee computers that can taste, see, smell, hear, and touch. At the end of each year, IBM releas­es its “5 in 5”—five tech­nol­o­gy pre­dic­tions that…

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  • A Map Of Every Person In The U.S. And Canada

    A Map Of Every Person In The U.S. And Canada By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com You can try to find yourself among the 341,817,095 tiny dots on the map. Here’s a pret­ty cool inter­ac­tive map made by Bran­don Martin-Anderson show­ing, accord­ing to cen­sus data, every sin­gle per­son in the Unit­ed States and Cana­da. The … RT…

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  • Firefly: a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone

    Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Skate­board­ers have been tap­ing their tricks with jury-rigged video setups since the advent of cam­corders, but the pro­duc­ers of short and beau­ti­ful video Fire­fly took the next log­i­cal step: using a cam­era mount­ed to a hexa­copte… Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a…

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  • Researchers Reverse Engineer Fireflies To Make More Efficient LEDs

    Researchers Reverse Engineer Fireflies To Make More Efficient LEDs By Colin Lecher, popsci.com Fireflies have a neat trick for conserving light. Turns out, it could work for LEDs, too. Some­times, a trick gets pulled off bet­ter in nature than it does in a lab­o­ra­to­ry. That might be the case with new research claim­ing fire­flies’ uniq……

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  • Americans Hate Congress More Than Root Canals

    New Data: Americans Hate Congress More Than Root Canals, Cockroaches Or Nickelback By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com But Congress narrowly beats ebola, bullies and Lindsay Lohan. Root canals, head lice, cock­roach­es, Don­ald Trump, Ghengis Khan, Nickelback—they’re all ter­ri­ble things, but in the eyes of Amer­i­cans, none of those things is worse than the… http://flip.it/JpCHr Related articles…

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  • Prediction: Science Funding Remains Strong

    2013 Prediction: Science Funding Remains Strong By Juliet Eilperin, popsci.com Barack Obama’s second term should see the same focus on funding science and technology—although the budget ax is looming. Sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy have utter­ly trans­formed human life in the past few gen­er­a­tions, and fore­casts of the… RT @gram_positive: But will remain weak in the Philippines.…

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  • Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things

    Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com In 2011, Berg worked with Google to imagine the service’s manifestation in real life. Here’s the remarkable, working prototype they came up with. Google is ridicu­lous­ly pow­er­ful. The ser­vice isn’t just search. It isn’t just maps. It isn’t j… RT…

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  • Basis Band goes on sale, taking wearable fitness tech to the next level

    (via Basis Band goes on sale, taking wearable fitness tech to the next level | Digital Trends) Related articles From The Pebble Smartwatch To Google Glass: Gauging The New Mobile Market For Wearable Devices (businessinsider.com) Gibson meets Glass: Cyberpunk creator dons Google’s wearable (slashgear.com) 3 Ways To Make Wearable Tech Actually Wearable (fastcodesign.com) OK, cupid:…

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  • Is Climate Change Self-Correcting?

    Is Climate Change Self-Correcting? Australia’s Heatwave Stops Gasoline Sales By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com At high outback temperatures, gasoline vaporizes too quickly to pump. Con­tin­u­ing Aus­tralia’s trend of being major­ly unpleas­ant this week, it got so hot in the Out­back town of Ood­na­dat­ta a few days ago that you couldn’t even pump gas. RT @PopSci: Good…

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  • Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile

    By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com A California company is selling car insurance by the mile, using in-car sensors to log data. The longer plan is to have a running monitor of the car’s health. http://flip.it/iV6qk Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile Related articles Car insurance prices ‘start to fall’ (bbc.co.uk)

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  • How the Cloud Changes Software Consulting

    By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com Software consulting is a multibillion-dollar business, and the means by which most enterprise software actually ends up in business. Consultants figure out what companies need, install it, customize it, and train workers on it. As more software is… http://flip.it/5rrL9 How the Cloud Changes Software Consulting Related articles OpenStack, Mobile, Amazon and…

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