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The majority of British children will soon be growing up... are struggling “below the breadline” because of welf... and wage freezes, the Government is warned today.
Within two years, almost 7.1m of the nation’s 13m youn ...

The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a sn... called to account by a US Senator.
Senator Al Franken has written to Carrier IQ asking it t ...
Mr Eckhart claimed Carrier IQ software could log everyth ...
Carrier IQ said its software helped d

The map–territory relation—the relationship between ... object—is one of the lasting philosophical quandaries.
Coined by Alfred Korzybski, The map is not the territory ...

The memory model assumed for this discussion is a paged ...
The heapsort algorithms seen so far are not very well su ...
NOTE: Be aware that the words 'page access' does not nec ...
One may wonder if the d-heaps described in chapter 5 can ...
The drawbac

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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The microODRL specification descrbes a profile of the co... language for use as microformats in marking up standard ...

The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collectio...
Its purposes are:
To encourage research on algorithms that scale to co ...
To provide a reference dataset for evaluating research
... To help new researchers get started in the MIR f

The mission of the Emotion Incubator Group, part of the ... is to investigate the prospects of defining a general-pu... annotation and representation language, which should be ... variety of technological contexts where emotions need to...

The more our media channels are flooded with deep fakes ... various kinds, the more we have the feeling of sinking i... quicksand.

The most important issue that came to light was that dat... readily available in on-line API formats and are current... masses of spreadsheets that need to be downloaded and ho... worked into a usable and highly available format. If thi... process is

The most impressive neon districts in the world include ... Shibuya, Osaka’s Dotonburi which was the inspiration f...
Most dramatic of all, however is Hong Kong where the ent ...
Vegas and Times square deserve double mentions as they a ...
Although th

The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet... Since then, countless technological advancements have al... more efficient human computer interaction. Why then do w... outdated technology? Introducing Gmail Motion -- now you... with your b

The Movable Type Open Source Project is a community effo...
* MTOS is an entire community of people devoted to m ...
* MTOS is a set of projects, including a full versio ...
* MTOS is a distribution of the core publishing plat ...
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The Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Com... Japan has developed a prototype pair of GPS-enabled glas... lights built into the frame to keep you moving in the ri...
The glasses house a microcomputer used to input your fin ...

The National Public Toilet Map (the Toilet Map) shows th... than 16,000 public and private public toilet facilities ... Details of toilet facilities can also be found along maj... and for shorter journeys as well. Useful information is ... toilet, suc

The network takeover
Albert-László Barabási
Nature Physics
8,
... pidly developing into a new discipline: network science.

The new BBC /music site seeks to provide a definitive, p... online information about all the music the BBC plays. At... site are the artist pages which aggregate information fr... and elsewhere on the web. In addition to the the artist ...
A core feat

The new report, Inclusion Through Innovation: Tackling S... Through New Technologies, explores the potential that In... Communication Technologies (ICT) have to improve service... quality of life for the most excluded groups, and argues... use of ICT

The NHS’ controversial project to computerise all pati... cost billions of pounds without delivering any benefits,... damning report.
It warns the project is running years behind schedule an ...

The Norfolk hamlet of Berney Arms was once home to a small but thriving community of 11 families. Today, it lies empty but for an unused pub, an RSPB centre, a closed marsh mill and a railway station.

The notion of representation plays a central role in phi ...
One crucial question is whether it can be given a biolog ...
* If there are innate representations, are they adap ...
... will lead to explanations of animat or animal behavior.

The objective of the ACE program is to develop automatic... technology to support automatic processing of human lang... from a variety of sources (such as newswire, broadcast c... weblogs). ACE technology R&D is aimed at supporting various classificati

The Oculus Rift headset is the cutting edge of virtual r... games. Be part of history by getting your own Oculus Rif...

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

The Open Applications Group is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profi... development organization (SDO). Our community is focused... process-based business standards for eCommerce, Cloud Co... Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, and Enterpris...
Our Open Ap

The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative is an... effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standar... expressions. ODRL is intended to provide flexible and in... mechanisms to support transparent and innovative use of ... publishing,

The Open Graph protocol enables you to integrate your we... social graph. It is currently designed for web pages rep... of real-world things — things like movies, sports team... restaurants. Once your pages become objects in the graph...
Open Graph

The Open Graph Viz Platform
Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration pl ...

The OpenURL Framework Standard defines an architecture for creating OpenURL Framework Applications. An OpenURL Framework Application is a networked service environment, in which packages of information are transported over a network. These ...