With the issue of NSA-related surveillance dominating global headlines, there is indeed a certain irony regarding America’s on-going railing against the PRC for supposedly doing the same thing…
(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/0TMLG
Paul Graham’s experience and insight is always worth taking under consideration.
(Source) Tech Crunch: http://goo.gl/fmoSz
As Google’s Reader draws to a close other firms are looking to capture this service’s fan-base…
(Source) LA Times: http://goo.gl/eevb9
With the recent NSA surveillance dust-up in the news, the Feds using Supercomputers (for various ‘defense-related’ activities) dates back to the height of the Cold War (which still does not fully justify doing so).
(Source) Wired: http://goo.gl/uOW0l
Seemingly going the route of Redmond; Google is developing both an Android-based (OS) Game Console and a wristwatch… while the latter is easily a flanking move (against, you know who) the former is a curious move in light of the industries’ (current) direction…
(Source) WSJ: http://goo.gl/pwRDQ
In light of America’s NSA surveillance, Turkey’s (current) Civil Disobedience reveals – yet again – the tension between citizen activism and governmental crackdowns…
(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/PXUar
The enclosed looks to be an excellent resource for navigating the proliferation of Educational-applications.
(Source) Graphite: http://goo.gl/ZP2va
Scientists have figured out how to mimic the actions of a hamster running on a treadwheel / ball which in turn has been replicated into creating a robot that can be deployed to assist farmers (tend to their crops).
(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/Q83Mr
Be careful what you part with… Yet, another Apple 1 is up for auction (starting at $300,000) for those with a penchant for this sort of collectable.
(Source) Statesman: http://goo.gl/NY6rx
Whether this is the definitive list or not is debatable.
(Source) LA Times: http://goo.gl/LyUE1
