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Nadella to head Microsoft; Gates leaves chair role
Gates to step down as chairman, take on new role at Microsoft as company names Nadella CEO REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft has named Satya Nadella, an executive in charge […]
Bill Gates: Prioritizing Worldwide Internet Access Over Malaria Research Is A ‘Joke’
Huff Post — Technology is “amazing,” Bill Gates told the Financial Times in a recent interview, but it’s not going to save the world. Speaking with the Times’ Richard Waters about what it’s going to take the make the planet a better place, the Microsoft co-founder said that though improvements in technology […]
Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt
The New York Times: by Laurie Goodstein. In the small but cohesive Mormon community where he grew up, Hans Mattsson was a solid believer and a pillar of the church. He followed his father and grandfather into church leadership and finally became an “area authority” overseeing the Church of Jesus […]
Halal Google: An Internet Free Of Vice
Huff Post: by Yasmine. Halalgoogling.com is dreaming big, as they aim to become, “the number one search engine in the Muslim community.” Simply put, the site’s strict filters prevent users from accessing haram, or forbidden, content through the search engine, although according to their blog, users can do much more. Haram literally means […]
Concerns over online Qu’ran teaching as ex-Pakistan militants instruct pupils
theguardian: by Jon Boone. Religious websites and instructors enjoy mini-boom reading Qu’ran online as British Muslims tap into distance teaching. With his track record as a member of the political arm of a banned terrorist organisation, Mian Shahzib is unlikely to ever be given a visa to enter Britain. But […]
NSA leaker Edward Snowden is a hero to some, traitor to others
Computerworld – Depending on whom you ask, National Security Agency (NSA) contract employee Edward Snowden is either a hero or a traitor for leaking details about top-secret U.S. surveillance programs to the media. Snowden on Sunday identified himself as the person who had provided The Guardian and other newspapers with details of a top-secret phone […]
Scientists make world’s smallest movie from Atoms
Source: TheLocal You might say he is just a collection of atoms, but then, really, aren’t we all? The Local’s German of the Week is Boy, from the world’s smallest stop-motion film, made with individual atoms moved by a German-led research team. The video A Boy and His […]
Innovation success: Switzerland tops European innovation list
Mar 30, 2013 – 10:44 Switzerland is the most innovative country in Europe, comfortably ahead of second-placed Sweden, according to an annual study by the European Union. The Innovation Union […]
YouTube ban — Yasser Latif Hamdani
Daily Times: No state, modern or ancient, secular or religious, has successfully managed to exercise thought control on its citizens. The government’s flip-flop last week over the YouTube ban has once again exposed the misplaced priorities and a profound lack of logical and rational decision making on its part. YouTube […]
Google starts watching what you do off the Internet too
RT: The most powerful company on the Internet just got a whole lot creepier: a new service from Google merges offline consumer info with online intelligence, allowing advertisers to target users based on what they do at the keyboard and at the mall. Without much fanfare, Google announced news this […]
Why Millennials Don’t Want To Buy Stuff
Source: Fast Company BY JOSH ALLAN DYKSTRA Compared to previous generations, Millennials seem to have some very different habits that have taken both established companies and small businesses by surprise. One of these is that Generation Y doesn’t seem to enjoy purchasing things. The Atlantic’s article “Why Don’t Young Americans Buy […]
Dropbox lures Python creator away from Google
Source: ZDnet Dropbox might have just scored a major win against Google — at least as far as personnel goes. The cloud storage provider just hired Guido Van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language. Dropbox confirmed the news in a blog post on Friday, as founder and CEO Drew […]
The UN asks for control over the world’s Internet
Members of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) have agreed to work towards implementing a standard for the Internet that would allow for eavesdropping on a worldwide scale. At a conference in Dubai this week, the ITU members decided to adopt the Y.2770 standard for deep packet inspection, a […]
What Religion Can Do for You- Ask the Internet..
Huff Post: Paul Brandeis Raushenbush. Want to know something, anything? Want to find out what day Hanukkah starts? When Mussolini was born? How many eyes a common housefly has? Want to know if someone is gay? Why Sikhs wear turbans? Wondering if God exists? Ask the Internet. ……….As the Religion […]
‘Cypherpunks’ Internet may enslave us
RT: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has co-authored a book arguing that the world is at a pivotal decision: Whether the Internet will free us, or enslave us. Assange, famous for his ‘hacktivism,’ used a decidedly low-tech medium for his latest polemic. Titled ‘Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet,’ […]
Camp Kivu’s Quest to Get Depressed Teens to Disconnect From Social Media
Source: The Daily Beast. By Nina Strochlic When a camper’s dad unexpectedly died last month, Andy Braner didn’t send him a condolence email or Facebook message. He got on a plane and flew from Colorado to Texas to be with the grieving teen. For Braner, social media is a means […]
Switzerland seeks to confirm top research spot
by Andreas Keiser, swissinfo.ch Switzerland tops all major research and innovation rankings worldwide, largely thanks to generous funding and a clear separation between public and private research, as well as […]
FBI issues Android warning
Source: CNN Money/Fortune By Philip Elmer-DeWitt FORTUNE — Developers often complain about the hoops Apple (AAPL) makes them jump through to get their wares into the iOS App Store. But the company has its reasons — besides its 30% cut of the revenue — and one of them was illustrated […]
In Bangladesh, most complain over Facebook
Source: Gulf Times By Mizan Rahman The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission’s anti-cyber crime cell has received, in the last nine months, over a thousand complaints, most of which were directed at the popular social networking site Facebook and were lodged by female students, official said yesterday. Bangladesh Computer Security Incident […]