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  • Visualizing cancer: it’s gone viral

    Cancer Rates Around The World [Infographic] By Emily Elert, popsci.com Global patterns reveal the myth of a “disease of affluence” Can­cer is often con­sid­ered a “dis­ease of afflu­ence”—a mal­a­dy that most­ly afflicts peo­ple in the world’s wealth­i­est coun­tries, often as a con­se­quence of… Cancer Rates Around The World [Infographic] http://flip.it/Pc75S http://flip.it/qUUIU Related articles Light-activated, acid-producing…

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  • Funf: computational social science in your pocket

    Open-source Funf platform taps into Android’s huge knowledge about you By Daniel Cossins, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Novem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flip.it/FiWXt Related articles Why…

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  • Ethnographic documentary filmmaking with a kinect

    How a Kinect hack is turning documentary film on its head By Tom Cheshire, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Decem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… RT @WiredUK: How…

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  • Case study of ditching the DSLR for a mirror less

    Sony NEX-5R review: can the best mirrorless camera get even better? By Dan Seifert, theverge.com Ear­li­er this year, I made a pret­ty dras­tic change in my cam­era set up. I left behind my trusty Canon DSLR, and the lens­es and acces­sories that had served me well for six years, and I picked up a Sony…

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  • The Evernote clipping obsession

    The Verge at work: backing up your brain By Thomas Houston, theverge.com How I use Evernote as a memory tool for deep reading, writing, and research The Verge at Work is a series about process. We’re not sci­en­tists, and we’re not gurus, we’re just try­ing to get some work done. The solu­tions pre­sent­ed here ar……

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  • Why the iPad shall replace your ugly black television

    The future of television has arrived: it’s called the iPad By Nilay Patel, theverge.com Why owning the second screen is Apple’s game to lose The future of the tele­vi­sion is the iPad. That was the over­whelm­ing mes­sage at the TV of Tomor­row con­fer­ence in New York, which saw exec­u­tives and deci­sion mak­ers from across the……

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  • Transcendence: a new film about AI

    Johnny Depp assumes the role of artificial intelligence in new sci-fi flick ‘Transcendence’ By Kimber Streams, theverge.com John­ny Depp will play a sci­en­tist whose con­scious­ness is uploaded to a super­com­put­er in the upcom­ing sci­ence fic­tion film Tran­scen­dence, TheWrap reports. Incep­tion direc­tor Christo­pher Nolan is exec­u­tive… http://flip.it/GwUjo Related articles Johnny Depp’s ‘Transcendence’ Adds Paul Bettany, Gets…

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  • Apps for iPad that let anyone watch cable channels for free

    History, A&E, and Lifetime Channel apps for iPad let anyone watch current episodes for free By Dante D’Orazio, theverge.com It may con­tin­ue to be a pain for cable sub­scribers to watch tele­vi­sion when mobile, but the sit­u­a­tion should be a bit improved now that apps for the His­to­ry Chan­nel, A&E, and Life­time are avail­able for…

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  • Adobe finally gives up on desktop software, embraces the creative cloud

    With 326K Paid Of 1M Total Members, Adobe Adds Teams To Creative Cloud, Subscriber-Exclusive Updates To Photoshop CS6 Darrell Etherington, techcrunch.com Adobe is host­ing an event today to show off some new updates it’s mak­ing for its Cre­ative Cloud offer­ings, but here’s an advance look: The ser­vice is get­ting a num­ber of exclu­sive updates that…

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  • Buffer social media turns from websites to mobile streams

    With Over 400,000 Users, Social Media Manager Buffer Gets A Refresh On Web & Mobile, Moves Away From Being A Destination Site Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com Buffer, the social media man­ag­er that allows you to sched­ule posts to Twit­ter, Face­book and LinkedIn, is today launch­ing a redesign of its ser­vice on both web and mobile. The…

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  • Check this online posters

    Checkthis Updates Its Social Posters: Share Visually Compelling Content Without Setting Up A Blog Romain Dillet, techcrunch.com Check­this received a major update today, mak­ing it more than ever a visu­al com­ple­ment to the text-only updates on social net­works. The ser­vice enables users to cre­ate com­pelling posters and share them with their friends. But users now…

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  • Loccit converts your Facebook media into physical stuff

    UK Startup Loccit Sells 8k Facebook ‘Memory Books’ In 48 Hours, Wants To Turn Your Digital Media Footprint Into Physical Stuff Natasha Lomas, techcrunch.com There’s a cot­tage indus­try of star­tups that want to sell your social net­work­ing con­tent back to you in a new form, such as Past­Book and Mem­olane. Loc­c­it, a UK-based ecom­merce start­up…

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