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(http://www.tuaw.com)
- scanned by: Accel Rose
over 2 years ago
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"Rather than continuing to invest heaps of money to research its own devices, Maj. Gen. Justice wants to take a different approach: leveraging the knowledge and research of the commercial sector into the Army's portable equipment. This approa...
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(http://www.impactlab.com)
- scanned by: memebox
over 2 years ago
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Davinci Institute: the NSA is constructing a datacenter in the Utah desert that they project will be storing yottabytes of surveillance data. And what is a yottabyte?
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(http://www.markpack.org.uk)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 2 years ago
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Both Amazon and Google have unveiled major developments in their plans to dominate the future of e-books.
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kindle, google, amazon, ebooks, books, authors, booksellers, bookstores
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(http://www.acceleratingfuture.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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As part of his stated commitment to boost national funding in research and development to 3% of US GDP, Obama mentioned both AI and advanced prosthetics as research goals:
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(http://news.cnet.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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Facebook plans to announce at a developer event Monday that it will open up user-contributed information to third-party developers, according to a report Sunday in The Wall Street Journal.
The move would allow developers to build applications a...
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developers, develop, facebook, fb, socialmedia, mandateofkevin
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(http://features.csmonitor.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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President Obama set an ambitious goal Monday to have the US spend more on scientific research and development than it did at the height of the space race in 1964.
If he can meet that mark, it would reestablish the United States as an internatio...
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(http://www.avc.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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Claire Cain Miller has a story in today's NY Times about Second Market, a NYC based company that makes markets in illiquid securities. She reports that they will shortly be launching a marketplace for private company stock.
I've written about t...
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market, economy, economics, secondmarket
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(http://online.wsj.com)
- scanned by: Marc Cobb
over 3 years ago
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A new Obama initiative is in the works to increase the government's efforts to protect the nation's cyber boarders. The move comes amid growing evidence that sophisticated cyberspies are attacking the U.S. electric grid and key defense programs.
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(http://www.google.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis has warned that Latvia may face bankruptcy if it fails to obtain the next round of IMF bailout funds by June. To hit the IMF targets necessary to release the funds, Latvia must cut an additional 40% of public sec...
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latvia, economy, bailout, economics, debt, budget
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(http://www.cnn.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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Hackers continue to tear away at U.S. government data, reinforcing the notion that there's a broad, perhaps asymmetrical, information war taking place. -- Thousands of confidential files on the U.S. military's most technologically advanced fighter...
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fighterjet, hack, hacking, data, information, military, us, govet, government
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(http://www.nytimes.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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Could this be a sign of things to come for other heavy-industrial nations? --
The nation’s jobless rate, already a painful 15.5 percent, could soon reach 20 percent, a troubling number for a major industrialized country.
With the toxic comb...
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