Isolated Indians meet the world

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Isolated Indians meet the world

The Mercury
Jul 31 2014

RIO DE JANEIRO: Isolated native people, probably fleeing attacks in Peru, have turned up in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, where they made contact with the outside world, according to a video released by the country's indigenous authority. Brazilian...
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The machines will take our jobs if we don’t get smart

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The machines will take our jobs if we don't get smart

Business Week
Jul 31 2014

WHAT to do? Should I write this week about financial imbalances in the euro zone, or the threat to jobs from computerisation? One might be of more interest to me, but the other to almost everyone else. Then it dawned that the two were connected in a...
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The public sector assumes most of the cost of research

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The public sector assumes most of the cost of research
RACHEL PARKER DAVID WISEMAN Rachel Parker is dean of research development from Queensland University of Technology and David Wiseman is team leader of the Research Support Office at QUT Business School.
The Australian
Jul 30 2014

AN important potential advantage of any research impact assessment exercise would be to better articulate the incredible and substantial contribution of public research to economic and social advancement and to correct the balance of public discourse...
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Baidu developing ‘self-driving’ car

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Baidu developing 'self-driving' car
By MENGJING mengjing@chinadaily.com.cn
China Daily
Jul 30 2014

Chinese search engine leader Baidu Inc, widely known as the Google of China, is following in the Western Internet giant's footsteps by working on its own version of a selfdriving car. The Beijing based company confirmed it has already initiated the...
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Tapping into rich market for used iPhones

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Tapping into rich market for used iPhones
THIS WEEK'S CASE STUDY JARED LINDZON
Toronto Star
Jul 29 2014

In the never-ending cycle to own "the latest" iPhone, a Toronto startup sees billions to be made. Not in the slick new model, but in the castoffs that waste away in drawers. While brainstorming ideas for his first startup last summer, Bruno Wong was...
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The confessional

Interesting story on page 75. Anonymous apps for private thoughts. 

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The confessional
BY MARIANA MARCALETTI mariana.marcaletti@washpost.com
The Washington Post Sunday
Jul 27 2014

Users are sharing private thoughts — from Gaza to dating — on anonymous apps like Secret. G4
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Typewriters are the start of a fightback against cyberspying

If you have one, hang on to it :)

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Typewriters are the start of a fightback against cyberspying
By Andrew Martin
Sunday Times ( Sri Lanka)
Jul 27 2014, page 40

A German politician called Patrick Sensburg announced this week that his country's government was thinking about reverting to the use of an un-hackable technology: typewriters. Mr. Sensburg is head of the Bundestag inquiry into the US National...
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Robot’s hitchhiking trip across Canada kicks off in Halifax

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Robot's hitchhiking trip across Canada kicks off in Halifax
METRO HALIFAX
Cape Breton Post
Jul 25 2014

The parents of a smiley hitchhiker in yellow rain boots are hoping Canadians keep their little one safe during a cross-country journey. This weekend, Haligonians travelling on Highway 102 might spot a robot with its gloved thumb pointing west on his...
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We’re heading into a jobless future

What can we do that a machine couldn't? 

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We're heading into a jobless future
By VivekWadhwa
The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
Jul 24 2014

In an op-ed in TheWall Street Journal, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers revived a debate I'd had with futurist Ray Kurzweil in 2012 about the jobless future. He echoed the words of Peter Diamandis, who says that we aremoving froma history of...
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Drones take flight into a world of possibilities

See also:
How to save journalism? News stories without reporters
New York Review of Books : The News About the Internet

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Drones take flight into a world of possibilities
By CLENT SABOURIN in Montreal
China Daily
Jul 23 2014

Like a well-trained dog, the HEXO+ follows you faithfully wherever you go. But it doesn't walk beside you— it's airborne. Developed by a French start-up, Squadrone System, the six-rotor HEXO+ — which handily totes a GoPro video camera — is billed as...
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How to save journalism? News stories without reporters

Sad story / Good punch line....

Apiece of software made Travis Solorio a little bit famous after he was gunned down on the streets of Los Angeles in February. On the morning following his death, the LAPD sent out an e-mail alert about the homicide to newsrooms across the city; within... [article] 

(The Globe and Mail (Ottawa/Quebec Edition), Wed, 09 May 2012, Page R3)

Deal with Apple is IBM’s revenge

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Deal with Apple is IBM's revenge
BY ROBERT EVATT
Tulsa World
Jul 22 2014

You could call it IBM's revenge. Last week the largely business oriented computing company struck a deal with Apple to integrate the devices and services offered by both companies. It's a big deal in the business world, as it has the potential to give...
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Intelligent car does daily chores

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Intelligent car does daily chores

The Napier Mail
Jul 23 2014

Cutting-edge technology is being pioneered by researchers at Jaguar Land Rover to develop an intelligent self-learning vehicle that will offer a personalised driving experience and help prevent accidents by reducing driver distraction. Using the...
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Search group to resume its use of drones

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Search group to resume its use of drones

The Dallas Morning News
HOUS­TON — A Texas-based group in­volved in searches for miss­ing per­sons around the na­tion said it will re­sume us­ing drones in its work af­ter a fed­eral ap­peals court ruled Fri­day that a warn­ing the group re­ceived to stop us­ing them didn't have...read more...

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Japanese firms set up shop in the uncanny valley

Silicon Valley — Uncanny Valley 

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Japanese firms set up shop in the uncanny valley

The China Post
Jul 17 2014

A future in which it is difficult to tell man and machine apart could soon become reality, scientists say, after recent robotic breakthroughs in Japan. But as the once-fantastical idea of wise-cracking android sidekicks takes form in laboratories —...
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IBM to spend $3b on new chip

 (The Kathmandu Post), Jul 11 2014, 16

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IBM to spend $3b on new chip
REUTERS WASHINGTON, JULY 10
The Kathmandu Post
Jul 11 2014

IBM announced on Wednesday it will invest $3 billion over the next five years in chip research and development in hopes of finding a game-changing breakthrough that can help revive its slumping hardware unit. IBM announced the plan a week before its...
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'Nothing is ever dry down here. Ever.' - Telegraph

Why did we ever give up on the octopus's garden? Read on... 

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'Nothing is ever dry down here. Ever.' - Telegraph
Sixty feet below the sea, in the world's only underwater habitat, a group of scientists is trying to unlock the ocean's secrets. But how do the crew of the Aquarius stay sane?

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NAST honors new academicians, outstanding scientists

The National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines (NAST PHL), the highest recognition and advisory body to the government and science community on matters related to science and technology, is holding its two-day 36th Annual Scientific... [article] (The Philippine Star, Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Page B-6)

Village of Coldwater sees spike in library memberships

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Township sees spike in library memberships
SARA CARSON
Packet & Times (Orillia)
Jul 9 2014

The Village of Coldwater has been gaining from the City of Orillia's loss. Since the city began charging township residents to use the Orillia Public Library, the Coldwater Memorial Public Library has grown by 86 members, said Severn's chief...
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The drone warfare drawbacks (Gulf News)

Slippery slope creation?

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The drone warfare drawbacks
By Doyle McManus
Gulf News
Jul 8 2014

The drone has become America's counter- terrorism weapon of choice, but does drone warfare really further US goals abroad? To wartime strategists under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the new weapon, like many innovations in the history of...
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Google leaders bemoan privacy limits

Google has been taking bold steps into the health realm lately, from forming a biotechnology company to extend life to developing a contact lens for diabetics. Just weeks ago, it unveiled an Android app that would aggregate fitness and health data in... [article] (San Francisco Chronicle, Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Page D1)

Elon Musk Warns of Terminator-Style Robot Apocalypse

A robot apocalypse is the last thing anyone would expect from green-tech pioneer Elon Musk. After introducing the spectacularly successful and iconic Tesla electric cars and innovations in space travel through his company, SpaceX, he has now brought...[Article] (Epoch Times New York Edition, Wed, 02 Jul 2014, Page B2)

Editorial writers’ brand new jobs

Librarians moving into intelligence work, journalists into marketing and related niches. Public roles for private.

What are we gearing up for? This is not the harmonic convergence I was expecting...

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MAJOR banks, financial institutions, advertising agencies and public relations companies are hiring journalists in greater numbers to create editorial content for their brands.
As redundancies continue at media companies across the country, more and... [article] (The Australian, Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Page 24)

Walking to Work Going Down, Down, Down (The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jun 29 2014, PageG2)

Interesting on commuting statistics.

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Walking to Work Going Down, Down, Down

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Jun 29 2014

The percentage of Americans who walk to work dropped by half over the last 30 years as people moved farther and farther from the most walkable urban areas and got fatter and fatter, although which was the chicken and which the egg is a tough......read more... 

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