Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

What this means is app-culture infiltrating the dashboar... space finder to a way to get coupons for local restauran... that can pop up on the windscreen.
It all relies on the car being connected to the internet ...
The connected car is already the thir

Welcome to the real legacy of the coalition's fee rises:... mere consumers of an educational product, paying to rece... in a subject that the government is gambling on to provi... our job market will demand in years to come. Meanwhile u... into soulle

he online giant is creating thousands of UK jobs, so why... less than happy?

As a Conservative I have no pleasure in exposing David C... claims. However, as long as the party continues to talk ... via the blame game, confidence will not be given an oppo... For it is an undeniable and inescapable economic fact: w...
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The Flowing city is a collection of projects that I foun... for information visualization projects about cities and ... of my thesis which you can download here.
Some of these projects visualize community generated dat ...
Other projects visualize Real

Very early in my doctoral journey, I was fortunate to ex... moment when you know the decision you have made was the ... with the realisation that I was being paid, not very muc... nonetheless funded, to sit down every day, to read, thin...
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Librarian questions quality of a publishing house. Libra... criticizes said press on his personal blog. Two years la... current employer get sued for libel and damages in exces...

The British public believe benefit fraud is a big proble...
The reality is very different. Last year, 0.7% of total ...
Indeed, welfare fraud is smaller than accidental overpay ...
In other words, if we wiped out benefit fraud tomorrow ⠮..
... people

FORTUNE -- The key tech battle of the current decade wil... we wear. Technology is crawling out of our bags and pock... bodies in the form of wearables. An increasing number of... finding their homes on our wrists, necks, ears and eyes.... and the sma

A few weeks ago I discontinued (temporarily, I hope) my ... consultations, particularly those related to the fraught... whether or not to leave academia. I discontinued these ... dealing with a health issue that, while thankfully not s...
In any case

The Government should consider stopping sharing intellig... the US and end the use of Cloud computing due to concern... personal information about British citizens can be spied...
The warning comes during a Whitehall drive for governmen ...
US law allo

DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us...

In order to support data set owners to publish their dat... Data on the Web, as well as to support data consumers to... integrate Linked Data from the Web, the LATC project has... of open source toolkits that cover all stages of the Lin... publication

A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail,... frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her... notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it’s worst.
Linn travels a lot and therefore has, or should I say ha ...

Amazon is forcing British publishers to cover the cost o... on ebook sales – even though the true VAT cost to the ... only a fraction of that amount under its generous Luxemb... regime.
The firm is able to wield such power over publishers bec ...

For the last couple of years, sales of Android-based sma...
Android phones now account for nearly 75% of the global ...
In the U.S., Android is clubbing iPhone 53% to 34%.
Given such a disparity in phone sales and usage, you wou ...
... Android devices,

Britain is now the most unequal country in the Western w... authoritative new United Nations report reveals. The gap... poor is as great as in Nigeria.
Detailed statistics in the Human Development Report publ ...

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also... ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "powe... standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't ... can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain... have an imp

The microformats community has revisited it’s standard... “microformats version 2”. At first, I thought why! I...
The authoring patterns have been simplified even mor ...
microformats 2 addresses one of the biggest problems ...
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So were you able to keep your job when you got married?
I did get married on the sly. And then in 1951 they ...
The "law" Kolchin refers to is not so much a law but a c ...
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Cards are like a digital equivalent to the traditional a... concept of marrying form and function — so that the wa... inseparable from what the thing is. "These are objects,"... feel, not necessarily real, but they feel virtual. They⮮. be fake thi

We tend to think of reason and emotion as being two diff... it turns out that there may not be a choice between the ...
Relationships between general and emotional intelligence
CT scan showing overlaps of different general and em ...
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According to the International Society of Prosthetics an... there are some 32 million amputees in the world today, a...
Eric Ronning's ReHand, made mostly out of parts fabr ...
Eric Ronning's ReHand won US$10,000 at UW-Madison's ...
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Researchers have been pursuing the development of such a... decades, in some cases spending hundreds of millions of ... engineering challenges. One device designed to help peop... condition is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval. It is kn...
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From a wind turbine built from scrap to a vertical axis ... drew derision and praise in equal measure, we are not sh... homemade clean energy projects.
This video—created by YouTube user supergokue1—demon ...
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