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“Technologies 'r' us”
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www.theverge.com - May 26, 9:54 PM

The Internet Defense League will let anyone with a web presence become a digital activist

Earlier this year a number of high-profile websites went dark as a form of digital protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA was eventually scuttled, but it's not the only internet-related legislation on the horizon, and a group calling itself the Internet Defense League is putting into place a system that could rally thousands of sites for similar protests at a moment's notice.

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www.slate.com - May 26, 3:20 PM

Follow Friday: The Ethereal Musings of @NotTildaSwinton

@NotTildaSwinton isn’t quite parody, though—or, at least, not just that. There is a trippy piety to the tweets, a combination of uproarious nature-worship and makeshift self-help proferred freely to her followers (or 'tildren,' as she calls them).

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www.youtube.com - May 25, 9:25 PM

Tetris: Official Trailer (fake)

A cool trailer for a nonexistent movie.

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boingboing.net - May 25, 9:01 PM

YouTube launches new Human Rights channel

This week, YouTube announced the launch of a new Human Rights channel in partnership with advocacy nonprofit WITNESS, and social news-gathering service Storyful.

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www.tnmoc.org - May 25, 12:58 PM

Turing and his Times video now online

The video of the highly acclaimed Turing and his Times event organised by The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is now online. The event, held on 26 April 2012, was to mark the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing and was the second of three Turing-themed events linking three of the top computing museums in the world.

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news.cnet.com - May 25, 10:50 AM

FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit

CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications.

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www.bbc.com - May 25, 6:50 AM

Diablo 3: A virtual world of money

If you want to earn some extra cash, then there are few more satisfying - and addictive - ways than 'mining gold' in a make-believe world.

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bigthink.com - May 24, 7:53 PM

The Power of Networks: Fractals of Complexity

In the latest RSA Animate production, Manuel Lima explores the power of network visualization in our increasingly complex world. A senior UX design lead at Microsoft, Lima explains how the world wide web we’ve mapped out on the Internet is eerily similar to many natural phenomenon in the world and universe at large.

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www.guardian.co.uk - May 24, 7:42 PM

Anyone can do it. Data journalism is the new punk

Can anyone be a data journalist?Simon Rogers on what we can learn from a 1977 diagram.

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www.guardian.co.uk - May 24, 9:43 AM

Solar plane begins first flight from Europe to Africa

Single-seater aircraft with 207ft wingspan aims to reach Morocco via Madrid and is being seen as a trial for a round-the-world flight.

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mashable.com - May 23, 10:39 PM

For Some Magazine Publishers, Web Still Isn't That Important

Although magazine publishers have embraced mobile, the web is still not all that important, executives at Conde Nast and Meredith Corp. say.

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www.newyorker.com - May 23, 10:26 PM

The Web Gets Smarter

Last Wednesday, with relatively little fanfare, Google introduced a new technology called Google Knowledge Graph.

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www.northwestern.edu - May 23, 9:50 PM

Taking Solar Technology Up a Notch

New inexpensive, environmentally friendly solar cell shines with potential.

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www.guardian.co.uk - May 26, 3:21 PM

Cookies law changed at 11th hour to introduce 'implied consent'

Alteration to regulations may leave Britain out of step with EU law in implementation of continent-wide directives.

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www.guardian.co.uk - May 26, 3:14 PM

Prometheus: the making of a new myth

What made Ridley Scott revisit the world of his his iconic movie Alien more than 30 years later?

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www.technologyreview.com - May 25, 9:03 PM

The Facebook Fallacy

For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site. Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web.

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www.zdnet.com - May 25, 8:59 PM

RIP webOS: Again and for good this time | ZDNet

The situation at HP is putting a nail in the coffin of webOS, effectively killing it off yet again.

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www.guardian.co.uk - May 25, 12:27 PM

SpaceX via Twitter: the everyday miracle of modern technologies

There's so much we already take for granted about the digital revolution that's rocked our world. But it can still strike awe.

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www.denofgeek.com - May 25, 10:45 AM

What games can learn from movies about the rules of the road

Dirt: Showdown and Hollywood don’t care much about rules of the road, and more games could learn a thing or two.

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io9.com - May 24, 7:57 PM

Why you'll be eating quantum dots twenty years from now

One day, your doctor may tell you to eat two teaspoons of quantum dots and call her in the morning. Well, sort of.

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www.economist.com - May 24, 7:46 PM

Online activists in the Middle East: Seeds of the future

At the very least, the advent of electronic and social media has vastly improved the ability of individuals to act as catalysts for change in the Arab world, stimulating and galvanising people to think and act more freely, even if they disagree with his views.

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www.guardian.co.uk - May 24, 9:56 AM

Hideo Kojima: video game drop-out – interview part 2

On the 25th anniversary of the genesis of his game series Metal Gear, creator Hideo Kojima reflects on a career spent battling the stigma of working in video games in the second of a two part interview feature, exclusive to the Guardian.

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www.guardian.co.uk - May 24, 6:00 AM

Hideo Kojima: video game drop-out

On the 25th anniversary of the genesis of his game series Metal Gear, creator Hideo Kojima reflects on a career spent battling the stigma of working in video games in the first of a two-part interview.

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www.zdnet.com - May 23, 10:39 PM

Jury strikes a blow against software patents

Ding, dong, the patent witch is dead! Well, maybe not dead, but at least melting a bit.

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mashable.com - May 23, 10:04 PM

10 Google Moog Doodle Recordings to Rock Your World

We've gathered some of the best recordings from the Robert Moog recordable Google Doodle synthesizer.

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