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Smartphones are bridging a US digital divide as minorities tap into the Internet using mobile devices, according to a Pew study released on Friday. ... 
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On the Internet, we’ve reached a tipping point where more than 50% of all Internet traffic is no longer generated by humans – instead, it's generated by a motley mix of search engine spiders, bots, scrapers, scammers, hackers and, yes, spies. We are no longer talking about the Internet, we are talking about the Bot Net – a “bot-mediated reality” where algorithms and bots influence where we go, how long we spend there and with whom we communicate.
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FOR as long as humans have romanced each other, others have wanted to meddle. Internet dating sites claim to have brought science to the age-old question of how to pair off successfully. But have they?
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By means of cloud computing, enterprises can access scalable computing power and storage capacity. A people cloud, by contrast, supplies a scalable number of workers via the internet.
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The abundance of false information available on the Internet, in movies and on TV has created a big challenge for educators.
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David Weinberger is one of the Internet's clearest and cleverest thinkers, an understated and deceptively calm philosopher who builds his arguments like a bricklayer builds a wall, one fact at a time.
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New software could tell Washington exactly what social network users are really thinking, collectively.
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Meet Olly, the web-connected, smelly robot. He, and it is a “he,” takes your @mentions, status updates and more and turns them into the smell of your choice. Created by a London-based designer, Olly is still a Kickstarter project with a $35,00 goal. Articles about robotics: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Automakers want to integrate your smartphone into their latest models, making the car another device that will keep you connected to the Internet. Many advances the auto industry sought to pioneer, such as GPS and video display monitors, have already progressed further and faster through smartphone technology. But for every added feature, engineers must install a safety device to prevent you from smashing into things while you enjoy a phone call or YouTube video.
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In the coming decades, humanity’s sojourns and journeys across the Social Web will transform as the technological and cultural seismic shift in global communication patterns and infrastructure brings use closer together and intimately connects us. The Internet is evolving in ways that may be currently hard to comprehend. If the global netizenry does not stand up for its rights and those of an unencumbered Internet, them corporate greed, myopic political leaders, and misplaced fear will prevent humanity for achieving an amazing future.
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Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering technologies that ESA is working on for future exploration missions.
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Although use of the internet has been credited with helping spur democratic revolutions in the Arab world and elsewhere, a new multinational study suggests the internet is most likely to play a role only in specific situations.
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There is only one measure of time that matters to the current Internet generation: the here and now. The Cult of Now is influencing everything that we do and every interaction we have on the Internet, especially since providing a live, real-time update is often no more difficult than pressing a button on a smart phone. We now perceive our digital lives as a continuous flow of information, and as the intensity of this information flow builds, it means that "the now" gets a disproportionate amount of attention and focus in our society. The Cult of Now satisfies our desire for instant digital gratification, but does it impoverish us in other ways?
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Will constant access to the Internet make today's young people brilliant multitaskers or shallow, screen-bound hermits?
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"In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government. But this is the first book about something much more fundamental: how the internet is transforming the nature of our collective intelligence and how we understand the world." Via Howard Rheingold
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The Semantic Web, also known as the Web 3.0, is set to come of age this week when a powerful data crunching service becomes available to the public. Wolfram Alpha has been online since 2009 but has had trouble gaining traction in circles beyond statisticians and math fanatics. That may change on Wednesday when its data processing algorithms become available to anyone looking for a more numerical representation of information. The new service is premised on the idea that people prefer reports over answers.
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he Web's ability to facilitate the transfer of information will continue to revolutionize our world, replacing the very physical space which many of our institutions take for granted. Office buildings, universities and shopping malls exist in large part to store information and facilitate its transfer between human beings. Many offices still hold large file cabinets, college lecture halls were built to allow many students to learn from one professor and malls provide consumers with information before they make a purchase.
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The Internet is so vast and interconnected that it would be impossible to destroy completely; however, there is much about it that could be ruined or lost.
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he brains of Internet addicts function differently than non-addicts, says new research out of China. After scanning the brains of 17 people who admitted to having problems controlling their Internet use, researchers noticed irregularities in the addicts' white matter—the part of the brain that contains nerve fibers. "There was evidence of disruption to connections in nerve fibers linking brain areas involved in emotions, decision making, and self-control." Similar irregularities are common in the brains of alcoholics and drug addicts.
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It is this critical mass that has given rise to the “app-cessory:” a digitally enabled item that is controlled by, or interacts with, your mobile device. We have seen them emerging for adult markets with items like Bluetooth headsets and Bluetooth laser keyboards. But the children’s market will take them to the next step. And why not? If children’s expectations will be for more options and more development to increase interactivity and engagement, then it is they who will lead the development of the internet of things more than anyone...
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Several reports today suggest that a study of the brains of people who excessively use the internet show abnormalities similar to those found in people with substance addictions could be proof that the internet has similar addictive qualities to drugs, alcohol or tobacco. The Independent’s report here is the most extensive.
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Scientists have begun to note that the Internet has started to rewire our minds.Read on …...
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Now that we live in the virtual age, online college is now an option. Now a busy, inconsistent life is no excuse to not earn a college degree. |
