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Reddit Considering Bitcoin for Subscription Model Says CEO Wong
Amidst the various markets that Bitcoin could have a lot of bite, online services are still the best bet and the highly democratized social forum of Reddit might just become one of them, according to news from a discussion thread there. As the site might be insanely popular with almost 3.8 billion pageviews in October, ...
The Eyes Have It at the Lund’s Prototype Digital Learning Classroom
Humanities Lab of Lund University in Sweden is working on groundbreaking educational research using eye tracking technology to enhance learning in collaboration with researchers from the University of Tübingen/Germany. The prototype classroom will use the eye tracking technology along with displays and computers in the lab to help determine what parts of a lecture appeal ...
Kendo UI Developer Survey Says HTML5 Adoption Is Right On Track
Kendo UI, a division of Telerik that offers a comprehensive framework for building JavaScript and HTML5 websites and mobile apps, announced the results of the survey they conducted among 4,000 respondents which consisted of developers for PHP, Java, Ruby, .NET, Node, and many others types. The survey focused on developers’ perspectives and adoption trends around ...
Remember, Remember, the 5th of November—Anonymous Raises the Flag
Anyone who follows the activity of everybody’s favorite Internet boogeyman Anonymous will notice that a prominent element of their graphics happens to be the Guy Fawkes mask from the graphic novel and movie V for Vendetta. As a result, it should be no surprise that Anonymous has also taken to celebrating the anniversary of Guy ...
A Big Data Rescue Mission for Sandy Storm Survivors
The East coast has been drenched with “Frakenstorm” Hurricane Sandy and once again this highlights how social media and Big Data come to the front with any large scale human event—we’ve seen Big Data put to use for disaster prediction and prevention, as well as social media projects rise out of citizen journalism during Sandy; ...
Forget SOPA, Russia Activates Web Censorship Blacklist Law
Wednesday, the Russian parliament unanimously adopted a controversial bill that would give them a tremendous amount of control over the Internet. Not so ironically, Wednesday was also October 31st—Halloween—the day of the year that the horrors, specters, and ghouls walk the land (in costume) and in this fashion, Russia managed to costume up SOPA and ...
Instagramming in Hurricane Sandy’s Wake: Postcards from the Windy Edge
Hurricane Sandy is a very human event and humans are inventing ways to better represent the experience of living through a storm. Mobile Photo Group has released a live curated feed of the #hurricanesandy Instagram tag, as well as plotted together images of the storm’s damage. Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing writes about this and it’s ...
#HurricaneHackers is Here to Organize Technology and Social Media Projects Related to Sandy
Right now, Hurricane Sandy is chewing on the East coast and the weather service is in a frenzy to get all its predictors in a row and even Google is getting in on this with an interactive crisis map. Everyday citizens and very smart technical geeks are also in the path of this upcoming “Frakenstorm” ...
Hurricane Sandy and the Big Data of Disaster Prediction
The science of meteorology is a game of numerous big numbers, a great deal of data from myriad sources, and historical regressive analysis of past events to understand the future. Right now, the East Coast is looking at a storm that has been seen before and NASA is using satellites to track it—Hurricane Sandy is ...
PlayStation 3 Low Level Decryption Codes Leaked, Console Hackers Descend
PlayStation 3 security isn’t what it used to be—or perhaps it’s never been so great, it’s just taken the hacker community to catch up with it. This isn’t the first time that the PS3 has been hacked, the first was a jailbreak technique, but Sony managed to defeat that with a firmware update. This time, ...