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  • Americans Hate Congress More Than Root Canals

    New Data: Americans Hate Congress More Than Root Canals, Cockroaches Or Nickelback By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com But Congress narrowly beats ebola, bullies and Lindsay Lohan. Root canals, head lice, cock­roach­es, Don­ald Trump, Ghengis Khan, Nickelback—they’re all ter­ri­ble things, but in the eyes of Amer­i­cans, none of those things is worse than the… http://flip.it/JpCHr Related articles…

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  • Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things

    Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com In 2011, Berg worked with Google to imagine the service’s manifestation in real life. Here’s the remarkable, working prototype they came up with. Google is ridicu­lous­ly pow­er­ful. The ser­vice isn’t just search. It isn’t just maps. It isn’t j… RT…

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  • iPhone 5 coming to Walmart

    iPhone 5 coming to Walmart’s Straight Talk prepaid plans January 11th Brad Molen, engadget.com Cus­tomers have been able to enjoy the iPhone expe­ri­ence on Wal­mart’s Straight Talk “BYOD” phone plans for quite some time now, but the pre­paid provider will begin direct­ly sell­ing the iPhone 5 — as well as the iPhone 4 — on…

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  • Miveu intros updated X case that turns your iPhone 5 into a rugged POV camera

    Miveu intros updated X case that turns your iPhone 5 into a rugged POV camera, we go straps-on James Trew, engadget.com We’ve seen rugged cases for iPhones before, even those that claim to give it action-cam cre­den­tials. Miveu rolled up to CES and revealed its lat­est offer­ing that incor­po­rates a wide-angle FOV lens (much like…

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  • Cambridge Semantics

    (via Cambridge Semantics – semanticweb.com) Related articles Cambridge Semantics Named 2013 SIIA CODiE Award Finalist (virtual-strategy.com) Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies (raygomore.wordpress.com) The basics of the “semantic web” (lordspratticus.wordpress.com) Next Steps For Semantic Services About Where To Eat And What You’re Eating (semanticweb.com)

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  • Geoffrey A Moore Author of Crossing the Chasm

    (via Geoffrey A Moore Author of Crossing the Chasm, The Gorilla Game, Inside the Tornado and Escape Velocity – Books by Geoffrey Moore) Related articles Technology Benefit Cycle: What Gartner & Geoffrey Moore Aren’t Telling You (sys-con.com) Managing disruption. Designing for the future of enterprise IT. (smartercomputingblog.com) Crossing the New Chasm: Focusing on Addiction, Not…

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  • Imagining the Perfect Plane

    (via Imagining the Perfect Plane – Articles – Executive Travel) Related articles Stunning Photos Of The Solar-Powered Plane Flying Over The Golden Gate Bridge (fastcoexist.com)

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  • The New Science of Building Great Teams

    (via The New Science of Building Great Teams – Harvard Business Review) Related articles When Hell Froze Over – in The Harvard Business Review (blogs.berkeley.edu) Harvard Business Review reduced to quoting dead eugenicist for argument against Bitcoin (peculium.net) When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review (xconomy.com) The Two Most Important Words Managers…

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  • For China’s driving test, be ready for almost anything

    (via For China’s driving test, be ready for almost anything – Washington Post) Related articles The Washington Post Readies “Post Everywhere” Video Distribution Play, Chief Digital Officer Vijay Ravindran; Social Reader “Reboot” Coming Soon (beet.tv)

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  • Willow Garage anthro of robots

    (via Overview | Willow Garage) Related articles As Willow Garage Shifts Course, a Key Robotics Platform Changes Stewardship (ostatic.com) Open Source Robotics Foundation Accelerates ROS Transition, Hires Key ROS Developers From Willow (spectrum.ieee.org) ROS Moving to Open Source Robotics Foundation (i-programmer.info) Robotics infiltrates Engadget’s Expand (robohub.org)

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  • Computational social science

    (via Computational social science: Making the links : Nature News & Comment) Related articles Scott Atran: The Folly of Defunding Social Science (huffingtonpost.com) Data Science in Business/Computational Social Science in Academia? (r-bloggers.com) Article Review: “Computational Social Science” by Lazer Et Al (rfidentity.wordpress.com)

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  • Social Science Pushing Data Frontiers

    (via Social Science Pushing Data Frontiers – Information Management Blogs Article) Related articles Scott Atran: The Folly of Defunding Social Science (huffingtonpost.com) Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself? (guardian.co.uk) Data Science in Business/Computational Social Science in Academia? (r-bloggers.com) Two Week Capacity Building Programme for Faculty in Social Sciences (knowledgesteez.wordpress.com)

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