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The Real Name Fallacy - The Coral Project - 0 views

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    "Yet the balance of experimental evidence over the past thirty years suggests that this is not the case. Not only would removing anonymity fail to consistently improve online community behavior - forcing real names in online communities could also increase discrimination and worsen harassment."
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3D Printed Hand Replicas - A New Security Concern - 0 views

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    "Experts now believe that criminals could 3D-print hands complete with fingers and fingerprints to defeat security precautions at banks, airports and police stations."
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Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Now You See It" - teaching skills that a student will need is this the route that we must follow?
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15 Controversial Apps Pulled from iTunes in 2011, Banned Apps | TechAhead Software - 0 views

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    Interesting to see the censorship of such a controlled system as iOS - is it a good or bad thing?
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What I've Learned from Teaching with iPads - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 0 views

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    Great and thoughtful article...
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'Cybersecurity' begins with integrity, not surveillance | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views

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    "That is, when you are continuously surveilled, when your every word - even your private conversations, even your personal journals - are subject to continuous monitoring, you never have the space in which to think things through. If you doubt a piece of popular wisdom and want to hash it out, your ability to carry on that discussion is limited the knowledge that your testing of the day's received ideas is on the record forever and may be held against you."
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Were Luis Suárez's bite marks Photoshopped? | Football | theguardian.com - 0 views

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    "The response on Twitter was predictably splenetic. Suárez's supporters claimed the images were manipulated, their argument promoted by a rather well-done diptych which did the rounds. The left-hand image - which had been photoshopped to remove the marks - purported to be the "real" unaltered version, while the right hand side - Gentile's original image - was labelled the fake."
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The fake pictures of the Rohingya crisis - BBC News - 0 views

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    The plight of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar was thrust into the spotlight last month after thousands of migrants were left stranded at sea - but not all the images being shared online are what they seem to be.
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Mobile operators signal end of flat-rate data tariffs as app use grows | Technology | g... - 0 views

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    An interesting article, could affect alot of people also burn holes in your wallet.
dr tech

Cory Doctorow's craphound.com >> Blog Archive » Promoting statistical literac... - 0 views

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    Youngtroopz - right up your EE alley!
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