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warrenellis: Morning, Computer: Headbook – The Facebook “emotional contagion” experiment has created what is to me a surprising little storm. Facebook constantly manages what news you see and which of your friends you get to pay attention, even with continual manual alteration of your feed’s parameters, so Facebook playing with FEELS in pursuit of algorithm…
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manojalpa: mathani: This puzzle consists of four hinged pieces which can be folded one way to a square and the other way to an equilateral triangle. Master puzzler Henry Dudeney demonstrated a wooden model before the London Royal Society in 1905. Mystifying geometry.
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Ukrainians crowdfund to raise cash for ‘people’s drone’ to help outgunned army | sUAS News
Ukrainians crowdfund to raise cash for ‘people’s drone’ to help outgunned army | sUAS News
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theeconomist: Chart: The number of unaccompanied children caught crossing into the United States since October has surged to about 52,000, from 15,700 over the whole of the 2011 fiscal year.
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Last week, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) published a study that conducted a large-scale experiment on Facebook. The authors of the study included an industry researcher from Facebook as well as academics at the University of California, San Francisco and Cornell University. The study employed an experimental design that reduced the…
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ximenavengoechea: Lessons from Google I/O. Above: The Design Sprint from Google Ventures; Material Design (Visuals and Imagery). I also wrote a recap of Android Wear and designing for wearables here.
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footblogged: Mexico lost the game but the World Cup lost Ochoa
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kadrey: Augmented Reality GPS penguins that lead you to the Tokyo aquarium. Forget making phone apps. Japan just won. jessicreep: sex-bom-omb: I have a mighty need. It’s cute. Stop.
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kohenari: Social media is hard. You know how it is: You’re working for an airline’s Twitter account, watching the World Cup match between your home country, the Netherlands, and Mexico, and then you decide to tweet something clever about how the Netherlands narrowly eged out Mexico. And you almost — almost! — manage to do…
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futurescope: Charlie Stross on the stop/go nature of technological change From Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing: Charlie Stross’s keynote speech to the Yet Another Perl Conference is an inspired riff on the weird, gradual-then-sudden nature of technological change. As Charlie points out, almost everything today — including the people — was around 20 years ago, and…