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Yale Daily News - FEAR THE SINGULARITYFEAR THE SINGULARITY Coffee was our sole objective as we slunk and scuttled into the 92nd Street Y, in New York, last Saturday at 7 a.m. Trembling with anticipation, we had arrived almost a full hour early to the fourth annual Singularity Summit. We had hoped for an empty lobby and untouched ...
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Amazon cuts Kindle price, adds global version - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.comCUPERTINO, California - Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in hopes of spurring more sales and keeping it ahead of a growing field of competitors.
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Blizzard Answers Your Questions and More | Slashdot Interviews Story | #Blizzard, #Diablo, #StarcraftLast week we asked for interview questions to help supplement our face-to-face interviews at Blizzcon. Over the course of the two-day con we were able to sit down with StarCraft II's Dustin Browder, Diablo III's Leonard Boyarsky, WoW's J. Allen Brack, and Battle.net expert Rob Pardo to answer a ...
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How To Prove Someone Is Female? | Slashdot Science Story | #Debate, #AndrogynyCaster Semenya won the 800m at the World Athletics Championship in blistering style leaving her competitors in the dust, but she has been thrown into the midst of a scandal amidst claims that she's not really a woman. According to the many press reports, she's believed to shave, is flat chested, ...
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CIPP Guide » Security vs. Privacy in France - Part 4 | SecurityThis is part 4 of the discussion “Sécurité ou Vie Privée ?” (ed: Security or Private Life) moderated by Mathieu Vidard (MV). Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 may be found here, here and here. CIPP Guide » Security vs. Privacy in France – Part 4
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Slashdot Technology Story | 'Awful' Internet Rules Released | #Privacy"NetChoice, a trade group that identifies and fights threats aimed at online communities and e-commerce, released iAWFUL, a list of America's 10 worst legislative and regulatory proposals targeted at the Internet. At the top of the list is a Maine law that would require e-commerce sites to get ...
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La neutralité du Web bientôt de nouveau débattue aux Etats-Unis - Actualités - ZDNet.fr | #[Net Neutrality]Législation - Un républicain va tenter pour la 3e fois de faire adopter au Congrès le principe de neutralité d’Internet, interdisant ainsi aux FAI de bloquer ou dégrader l’accès à des contenus ou services jugés légaux. La neutralité du Web bientôt de nouveau débattue aux Etats-Unis - ...
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furialog | #Google, #[Douglas Bowman]In his post explaining his departure from Google, Douglas Bowman says "Yes, it's true that a team at Google couldn't decide between two blues, so they're testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels ...
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Ten things we don't understand about humans - New Scientist | #HumansWe belong to a remarkably quirky species. Despite our best efforts, some of our strangest foibles still defy explanation But as science probes deeper into these eccentricities, it is becoming clear that behaviours and attributes that seem frivolous at first glance often go to the heart of what ...
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Slashdot | Feds At DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned | #RFID, #DefCon, #[Information Security]FourthAge writes "Federal agents at the Defcon 17 conference were shocked to discover that they had been caught in the sights of an RFID reader connected to a web camera. The reader sniffed data from RFID-enabled ID cards and other documents carried by attendees in pockets and backpacks. The ...
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