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Uche Amaechi

Students To Be Subject To Week-Long Social Media "Detox" Experiment - 1 views

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    What if...there were not internet?
Amanda Bowen

You'll freak when you see the new Facebook - CNN.com - 0 views

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    Facebook is about to roll out profile changes - again - but apparently the new ones are a shocker that will at first disappoint and later enthrall us. 
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    Isn't that what they promise with every roll-out? And then we all fight back by creating groups, sending emails, and overall boycotting the new changes, and then they send a message and apologize? Sometimes I want to tell Facebook: "If it ain't broke, don't try and fix it!"
Uche Amaechi

Aussie Startup Brings Seamless Computing Across Devices | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 1 views

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    This is not online what we saw in the microsoft video
Amanda Bowen

'Bulldozer' chip sets world record -- with help of liquid Nitrogen - CNN.com - 0 views

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    crazy super-chip needs liquid nitrogen to keep cool
Xavier Rozas

Augmented Earth...cool or really, really scary! Watch this video! - 1 views

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    Orwell missed the mark with his vision of a society that is policed by a single panoptical entity (government). WE ARE BIG BROTHER! Regardless of use, taste or even civility, the masses are using their digital recorders to capture everything. These students have developed a very interesting aggrigator of live video cams that layers over Google Earth sat feeds....Check this out!
Xavier Rozas

Who's the better translator: Machines or humans? - 0 views

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  • Pros and cons: People are good at knowing idioms and slang, so Facebook tends to get these right, but there are limited numbers of multi-lingual volunteers who want to spend time helping Facebook translate things.
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  • Pros and cons: People are good at knowing idioms and slang, so Facebook tends to get these right, but the
  • Google uses mathematical equations to try to translate the Web's content. This fits in line with the company's mission, which is to organize the world's information and make it useful and accessible to all.
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    Without a doubt Google will develop a user powered and 'usefulness' powered idiom aggregate. In fact, they could use web-bots to scour their translated pages/content for user consensus on 'busted-up lingo, yo'.
Xavier Rozas

Little pages make for big difficulties - 0 views

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    I have read a few short books on my iphone and enjoyed it, but it was an exersis in patience. I don't think phones will ever be viable text readers for students.
Amanda Bowen

Mobile digital 'omnivores' are radically changing media, comScore says - CNN.com - 1 views

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    are we that much closer to ubiquitous computing?
Amanda Bowen

Apple patent uses 3-D gestures to control an iPad - CNN.com - 0 views

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    Possibility of gesture-interface technology on forthcoming ipads. 
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