#LastPass vs. #iCloud Keychain: fairly negative on $APPL’s approach, which is too safari-centric http://enva.to/K7lsQf via @macappstorm http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/synchronization/lastpass-vs-icloud-keychain
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LastPass vs. iCloud Keychain | Mac.AppStorm
January 6, 2014Republican calendar: Worthwhile Jacobin initiative.
December 31, 2013How to Fix the Calendar
MT @Eleni_Stroulia: How to Fix the #Calendar: 12months, 3 wk/month, 10 d/wk (3 weekend), but “extra” ~5d winter break
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/12/30/republican_calendar_worthwhile_jacobin_initiative.html
What Apple’s M7 Motion-Sensing Chip Could Do | MIT Technology Review
December 27, 2013What Apple’s M7 Motion-Sensing Chip Could Do: Your #password could become hop, skip, tap, tap & shake
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519531/what-apples-m7-motion-sensing-chip-could-do $AAPL
EBay’s Strategy for Taking On Amazon – NYTimes.com
December 23, 2013.@giveeverything …but do people really want an e-wallet replacing their cards? EBay’s Strategy for Taking On $AMZN
http://nyti.ms/1cRmoCr
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/magazine/ebays-strategy-for-taking-on-amazon.html
pot. strong implications for Walmart & big retailers
Five Web-based Apps to help you visualize big data – TechRepublic
December 16, 2013Five Web-based Apps to help you #visualize big data: Many Eyes, ICharts, Visualize Free, Wolfram Alpha, Data Wrangler
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-web-based-apps-to-help-you-visualize-big-data ==
Also Visualize Free to complete the 5 MT @KirkDBorne 5 Web-based Apps to help you visualize #BigData
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-web-based-apps-to-help-you-visualize-big-data
Spies Infiltrate a Fantasy Realm of Online Games – NYTimes.com
December 14, 2013MT @davidlazer So many #NSA elves that deconfliction needed to avoid collisions. Spies Infiltrate… Online Games
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/world/spies-dragnet-reaches-a-playing-field-of-elves-and-trolls.html
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But for all their enthusiasm — so many C.I.A., F.B.I. and Pentagon spies were hunting around in Second Life, the document noted, that a “deconfliction” group was needed to avoid collisions — the
intelligence agencies may have inflated the threat.
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Burkhard Bilger: Inside Google’s Driverless Car : The New Yorker
December 13, 2013A REPORTER AT LARGE
AUTO CORRECT
Has the self-driving car at last arrived?
BY BURKHARD BILGER
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Has the self-driving car at last arrived? Almost, thanks to DARPA challenges, maps & machine learning
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/25/131125fa_fact_bilger via @gigajordan
The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It | MIT Technology Review
December 9, 2013The Decline Of #Wikipedia. Current issues: fewer editors, biased coverage & hidden wysiwyg interface
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia via @mhsantosa
Monitor: Magnetic tape to the rescue | The Economist
December 9, 2013Science for All
December 8, 2013Science for All. Interesting factoids on #India: more cellphones than toilets & plans for national #biometric numbers
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6136/1032.abs
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Nationwide connectivity is transforming India in other ways as well. Today, the country has 900 million cell phones. “Only about 35% of Indian homes have toilets. About 60% have mobile phones,” says Jairam Ramesh, who as India’s minister for rural development is searching for innovative solutions for poverty alleviation (see p.1034).
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Prime Minister Singh threw his weight behind the venture, and in July 2009 the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was formed. Its ambitions have since grown: UIDAI is now striving to assign a random 12-digit “Aadhaar” ID number to every resident of India, based on photos, iris scans, and a full set of 10 fingerprints. Some critics blast the program as far too ambitious to succeed. Others say it feels like Big Brother; they point out that security agents will have access to the database. Nevertheless, 300 million people have received Aadhaar numbers since the authority’s enrollment centers, scattered across the country, opened in September 2010.
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