Day: February 6, 2013

Business Culture Economy

Here’s What An American High Speed Rail Network Could Look Like

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Alex Davies High speed rail is moving forward in California, but progress is pretty stagnant around the rest of the country. Still, there are a lot of proposals out there, and when placed on one map, they form an impressive rail network. This map was put together by California Rail Map, led by Alfred Twu, which combined existing proposals from high speed rail advocacy groups around the US. The US High…

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Education Tech

MIT’s Free Creative Learning Class Teaches You How to Learn Almost Anything

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry Whether you need to learn a new skill or language to advance your career, or you just want to learn something new and broaden your horizons, lifelong learning is important. Still, picking up new things can be difficult, and the free Learning Creative Learning course from the MIT Media Lab aims to teach you techniques to easily pick up something new whenever you want to. The course starts on…

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Culture

The Winter Bloom Desktop

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry We’ve seen some great OS X desktops featuring GeekTool, but you don’t need it to tweak your Mac’s desktop into something that’s even cleaner, or at least a little more personal. That’s what reader DJDC did with this great-looking Snow Leopard desktop. No fancy Geeklets, just a clean, consistent look and a wallpaper that brings it all together. Want your Mac to look the same way DJDC’s does? Well, one thing…

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How to Track the Emails You Send (and Avoid Being Tracked Yourself)

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Whitson Gordon Ever wish you could find out whether someone actually opened that email you sent, or whether they just ignored and trashed it? A service called Bananatag can tell you—but if you find that a little creepy, we’ve got the lowdown on how to protect yourself too. How Bananatag Works Think of Bananatag like iMessage or BBM for your email: when you send someone a message, you can track it…

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Article

Navy’s First 4G Network Will Head Out to Sea in March

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As reported on Wired. BY SPENCER ACKERMAN For the first time, sailors and Marines are about to bring a 4G LTE network onto two ships, giving communications experts like Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Lakisha Johnson, above, a new means of sharing data, voice and text at sea. Photo: U.S. Navy   For the first time, a sailor or Marine on board a ship out to sea can actually use his or her cellphone for something…

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Culture

Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas in Pre-Olympic Sweep

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER A UPP soldier reacts to the distant sound of a gunshot by taking out his gun in the Sao Carlos shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. March 7, 2012.   When a city is chosen to host a major global event like the Olympics, officials go into high gear to ensure their metropolitan area is ready for the world’s eyes. In addition to building enormous amounts of infrastructure there’s…

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Article

Gun-Death Data Boldly Illustrates Stolen Years

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As reported on Wired. BY VALENTINA PALLADINO Arcing lines represent each victim’s saga. Image: screenshot   Data visualization firm Periscopic has developed a somber but thoughtful graphic showing the number of gun deaths in the United States in 2010 in terms of years of life that could have been. The project, officially launched on Monday, started out as an internal exploration of data for Periscopic co-founders Dino Citraro and Kim Rees and their team, and quickly became a compelling visual…

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Business

Software support: Microsoft’s loan to Dell is a protective move to secure big business

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren It’s all about the cloud, tablets, and mobile Following rumors of a Microsoft multi-billion dollar investment in Dell, the software giant has confirmed its moves to help take Dell private. Microsoft will invest around $2 billion in the form of a loan to Dell, a deal that was supervised by Silver Lake — the same private equity firm that helped Microsoft acquire Skype for $8.5 billion back in 2011. The loan may seem…

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Entertainment Story

Monty Python members to reunite for sci-fi comedy ‘Absolutely Anything’

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As reported on The Verge. By Sam Byford Monty Python’s Flying Circus stars John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones are set to work together again on Absolutely Anything, a sci-fi farce that will blend live action and CGI footage. Jones is directing the project, which will begin filming in the UK this spring, and tells Variety “It’s not a Monty Python picture, but it certainly has that sensibility.” Robin Williams is also on board to voice a talking dog.…

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Article

Newly-discovered prime number is more than 17 million digits long

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As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon The computer of Dr. Curtis Cooper at the University of Central Missouri has made a rare mathematical discovery — the world’s largest known prime number, 257,885,161 – 1. The integer is more than 17 million digits long, so if you wanted a hard copy to hang on your wall or something it would take more than 13,000 pages of A4 paper. The size of the find crushes the 2009…

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