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"From an algorithms perspective, this is a great time to be alive. Algorithms are just frolicking in the mountains of data that they can play with."
Using Twitter to connect with others is one of the keys to success. But many people are very immature in how they try to connect.
Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look. As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit students’ access to selected content, the video-sharing Web site is gaining popularity as a trove of free educational materials.
The world’s single largest online collection of historical maps launched earlier this week at Old Maps Online. By the end of the year, the site aims to have 60,000 maps available for public access.
ClassConnect is a relatively new website for finding and sharing lesson resources. It supports multiple file types, including documents, website URLs, and videos. Users can either upload their own files or embed files from Google Docs or video sharing sites such as YouTube. Each account comes with 512 MB of storage, which includes files that you’ve linked to from other users.
Windows 8 is a very different Windows. We've already seen that it will require Windows users to learn new ways of interacting with their computers, but there's more to it than that. The way applications work and interact with each other on the new platform is new and different—and rather good.
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Europe Seen Leading the Way in Hand-Held Computing
Crack this: How to pick strong passwords and keep them that way
The ability to control a Windows desktop with a simple hand gesture could become reality sooner than we once thought.
We love Jeff Broderick’s work here at Cult of Mac. We’ve told you about some of his web app projects, like QuickWiFi and QuickContact, and his latest creation is called Photogram. As the name implies, you can use Photogram to view Instagram in your web browser. The app is beautiful and optimized for both the desktop and mobile experience.
High grades will no longer be the only path to admission at the University of B.C., now that the school will also begin to consider personal profiles written by high school students.
How many times have you come across a website that you think nobody has seen before, decided to share it with your friends and family, only to receive comments like “OLD!” or “Saw that years ago” denting your pride as a result?
Forty-nine million or so American children have returned to public school classrooms that are, according to many critics, ever more boring. Preparation for increasingly high-stakes tests has reduced time for social studies and science. Austerity state and federal budgets are decimating already hobbled music, art, library and physical education budgets.
How and why is global warming accelerating? What sort of climate can we expect in 2100? Which human activities are most responsible for greenhouse gas emissions? How can we reduce these emissions? How does climate change currently affect our ecosystems and what impact will it have on them in the future? How will mankind be able to adapt to future climate change? Are you ready to set off on a journey that will take you into the heart of climate change and sustainable development? You are? OK! Let’s go !
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