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The Web Applications Working Group within the W3C has pr... Access Control for Cross-Site Requests recommendation, w...
This access control standard is supported by Firefox 3.5 ...
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Prism is a simple XULRunner-based browser that hosts web... without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is ... called Site-Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is designed ... with a single web application. It doesn’t have the men... other accou

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our custom... month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of ... customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our... looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we d... our own cus

Today the Twitter team moved into their new office which... by the super talented Sara Morishige Williams (@sara). ... existing shell of a building in downtown San Francisco. ... sneak peek last week while she was working on it, and wa... the photos

Free2C 3D-Kiosk with virtual touchscreen
Kiosk systems must stand out by offering simple intuitiv ...
The Free2C Kiosk is perfectly suited for applications in ...
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The Radius 320™ takes widescreen computing to a new le ...
Advances in display technology have allowed 20-inch, 24- ...

Smoke Signals is based on one of the oldest forms of com... recorded history dating back over 5,000 years. The proje... hybrid system that explores the dynamic and spatial capa... and light in relation to contemporary mobile SMS technol...
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Government is committed to making its public information... available as possible. The best way to make structured i... available online is to publish it as Linked Data. Linked... information easier to cut and combine in ways that are r... citizens. T

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activi...
The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse ...
Breakdown of a typical person's carbon footprint
The pie chart above shows the main elements which
... we buy the more emissions wil

Universities in the UK are worth £59bn for the economy,... the economic impact of higher education.
The report, based on figures for 2007-8, highlights the ...
Universities created, directly or indirectly, over 668,5 ...
The figures follow the launch o

ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2009) — A diet high in fat and ... carbohydrates, known as the "ketogenic" diet, quickens r... paralyzed rats after spinal cord injury, according to ne...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of men and women u... neuroscientists how their brains differed in response to... situations. In men, increased blood flow to the left orb... suggested activation of the "fight or flight" response. ... activated t

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — There are areas in the b... arms, legs, and various parts of our bodies. The way the... distributed throughout the brain are known as "body maps... some significant differences in these maps between left-... people. For

In everyday life we encounter more and more carbon dioxi...
Convert between a CO2 amount to other units as cups of t ...
Compare between two different emissions, for instance ho ...
Use our API to convert CO2 to a more understandable numb ...
Our carbon

The Art of Swishing involves getting your friends togeth... clothes and party at the same time. Every lady must brin...
(Large sacks of designer frocks are also gratefully rece ...
"Save money, save the planet, have a party: swishing eff ...
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Indian telcos give voice to the illiterate
knINDIAN_KIDS_wideweb__470x350,0.jpg Sending text messag ...
"... Since the urban market for mobile phones in India i ...
The solution is called Voice SMS. It is just like leavin ...
Some of the big operators —

I have remained fairly silent over the last year, ever s... letter from the British Chiropractic Association threate... This essay is an attempt to explain what has been happen... twelve months, why I have decided to apply to the Court ... might happe

I am going to create my own Ph.D. program via open educa... courseware. My degree will be in Educational Technology... in (what else?) Open Education as the Great Equalizer. ... my blog states: it will be all the learning, with none o... “doc”-u

That proved bipedalism did not evolve on the savannah, b... not fossilise, it is hard to establish when the hominids... In 2006, Nina Jablonski, an anthropologist at Penn State... a book, Skin: A natural history, in which she proposed t... bipeds fina

Data.gov.uk Newspaper
Friday, October 16th 2009
Over the last three days we’ve been working on a side ...
We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk reposit ...
And perhaps unsurprisingly, we thought a good way to do ...

LumiNet is a network of low-cost intelligent pixels that... an organic fashion: Without a central point of control, ...
Each node consists of an RGB LED, microcontroller, and c ...
New behaviors are injected into the network from a singl ...
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Q I have a website - can I display your calendar (or it...
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Absolutely! Interaction-Design.org is founded on princip ...

A recent iome survey into the social impact of mobile ph... the UK’s deep rooted emotional bond with handheld devi... mobile phones a vital role in our social lives. Almost a... respondents (31 per cent) confirmed they would feel “c...
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A new generation of contact lenses built with very small...
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... ess to information that appears right before their eyes.

Life imitates sci-fi as contact lens displays inch close...
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... with machines is too compelling not to pay attention to.

Solid-state lighting won't supplant the lightbulb until ...
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... electric lighting industry, unless we can defeat droop.

Printed compound semiconductors could challenge OLEDs, s...
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... energy efficiency, durability, and moisture resistance.