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A smart city is an open city. It runs on data, so public... demonstrate a presumption of openness, making data freel... in an accessible format. Data connectivity needs to be s... a privilege and as ubiquitous as water from the tap.

What can athletes with ADHD teach us about the condition?
Michael Phelps, hailed as the greatest Olympian ever, ha ...
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Sinister or not, its use at Baja Beach Club seems in kee... surroundings. "It's very suitable for this kind of place... body-aware," says René Lönngren, who runs the Barcelon... cool. "In an atmosphere where it is all muscles/tits/bod... attracted b

Alan Dix, professor of computing at Lancaster University... rough calculations, Roadrunner was possibly only five to... powerful than the human brain. "Wait another three to fi... will be there," he said

When the budget for rebuilding Birmingham City Council's... from £580,000 to £2.8m, did nobody say 'let's try free... instead'?

Twitter's old hat if you've used The Notificator
Social networking, 1935-style
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Augmented reality: it's like real life, but better
Charles Arthur investigates how the ways in which we wat ...
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... a video or sound clip. Or pretty much anything you want.

Programming should take pride of place in our schools
If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taug ...
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John Naughton
... owerPoint presentations will look like Dead Sea scrolls.

British website owners could face extradition to the US ... even if their operation has no connection to America and... which is most probably legal in the UK, the official lea...
The US's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE ...
As long as

How one word change lets Amazon pays less tax on its UK ...
The word 'fulfilment' introduced in 2006 marked new role ...

Two interesting things happened last week and neither ha... with social networking or privacy. First, a web server f... new in that, you say; happens all the time. Yes, but thi... web server: it was the machine that hosts the Raspberry ...
The second

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 ...

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The tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now bei... volunteers, meaning you might already have been surrepti... uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you be?

Twitter tells software developers not to try to mimic fu... 'timeline' apps - but missteps by official apps suggest ... alternatives still needed

Technology editor Charles Arthur sees if he has the righ... Parrot's Wi-Fi controlled quadricopter for a test flight

Every 10 years since 1841, the government has collected ... population to understand how the country is changing. Us... to get a picture of how your local authority has changed... previous census in 2001 and the most recent. Our data tr... census cate

The godmother of British electronic music who helped to ... most recognisable TV theme tunes of all time and pioneer... through her work in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is to b... an inaugural one-day celebration of her work in Manchester.
Delia Derbys

The Twitter users "voluntarily" turned over the internet... when they signed up for an account and relinquished an e...
"Petitioners knew or should have known that their IP inf ...
The fight comes amid widening concerns about online priv ...
"I want eve

If you had just survived a plane crash, it is not inconc... first thoughts would be a long line of expletives, as we... when the Continental Airlines 737 in which he was travel... runway in Denver.

It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a plann... multiply violating elementary norms of international law... have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as... have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no oppos... they claim,

STRATEGIES FOR WINNING ACCEPTANCE OF SECOND ORDER CYBERN... Umpleby Department of Management Science George Washingt... Washington, DC 20052 USA Guest Scholar, Summer 1991 Inst... Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence University of Vi... A-1010 Vien

The introduction of iOS 6 also introduced "smart app ban... let users know that your site has an associated app. The... adds a META tag and mobile safari handles the rest.
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=999">

HaptiMap, Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps a... Services, is a project which receives financial support ... Commission in the Seventh Framework Programme, under the...
If you are walking or cycling, and don’t want to (or a ...
The HaptiMa

The HAT is a private and secure cloud-based information ... and data processing abilities. It’s your own microserv... can access your data and manage it from an easy-to-use d... hyperdata browser we call Rumpel™. With Rumpel, you ca...
If you are

Colour blindness is caused because one of the three type...
totally or partially absent. The most common for ...
blindness which means that red and green colours ...
are about 20 times lower for females as most for ...
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GoodRelations - The Web Ontology for E-Commerce
GoodRelations is a standardized vocabulary for product, ...

# Staff can assess their own readiness for promotion
# Clear, explicit criteria for assessing readiness for p ...
# Staff can obtain feedback about why their application ...
# Control over unplanned grade drift and role growth