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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg shares vision of telepathy
Facebook CEO says virtual reality holds promise of immersive brain-to-brain communication
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The Essential Guide to Crafting a Work Email
There are rules.
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Bad comments are a system failure
Why can’t you fix them like any other bug?
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Scaling China’s Great Firewall
In the fall of 2011, a friend and I got on to discussing Tibet. “Do you know,” he said, “that Tibetans are setting fire to themselves?” I had spent from 2005 to 2008 in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, but I had never heard of acts of self-immolation. My friend filled me in on the ghastly details, and then added, “Everyone beyond the wall knows this. A writer who cares about China, but who doesn’t go over the wall, suffers from a moral deficiency. You shouldn’t let a wall decide what you know.”
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Edward Snowden says Hillary Clinton 'ridiculous' to think emails were secure
Edward Snowden has branded as “completely ridiculous” the idea that Hillary Clinton’s personal email server was secure while she was secretary of state. The National Security Agency whistleblower was speaking in an interview with Al-Jazeera. In 2014, Clinton accused Snowden of inadvertently helping terrorists. Since then she has toned down such criticism and said the NSA needs to be more transparent.
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Justice Department rules Hillary Clinton followed law in deleting emails
The Obama administration told a federal court Wednesday that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was within her legal rights to use of her own email account, to take messages with her when she left office and to be the one deciding which of those messages are government records that should be returned.
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Edward Snowden: we may never spot space aliens thanks to encryption
The US government whistleblower Edward Snowden believes encryption might make it difficult or even impossible to distinguish signals from alien species from cosmic background radiation. On Friday night, Snowden appeared from Moscow on the astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk podcast, via a robot video link called a “beam remote presence system”.
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Russian Ships Near Data Cables Are Too Close for U.S. Comfort
Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications, raising concerns among some American military and intelligence officials that the Russians might be planning to attack those lines in times of tension or conflict.
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Will Li-Fi Replace Wi-Fi?
Mobile communications professor Harald Haas has theorized about using LED bulbs to transmit data for years. Now, the technology is a reality. If Harald Haas is right, in just a few years we’ll all be getting internet through our lightbulbs. Haas, a professor of mobile communications at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, has been championing the idea that data can be transmitted through LED lightbulbs for years. Now, he has created a working model of a “Li-Fi” system.
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BlackBerry leaves Pakistan following government backdoor demands
BlackBerry is pulling out of Pakistan entirely next year, saying it won't sell devices or services there because the government has demanded access to BlackBerry Enterprise Service emails and BBM chats. Pakistan issued a shutdown order on BlackBerry services in July of this year, telling the country’s mobile phone operators the company would no longer be allowed to operate in the country after Nov. 30 due to "security reasons."
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Stephen Hawking launches medal for science communication
Renowned British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Wednesday launched an award for science communication that will bear his name. The "Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication" will be awarded to those who help promote science to the public through media such as cinema, music, writing and art. "I'm happy to say I'm here today not to accept a medal but to announce one," Hawking joked as he launched the medal at an event at the Royal Society...
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A bank persuaded Twitter to delete my tweets
I had an annoying surprise this weekend: an email from Bank of America Merrill Lynch telling me that Twitter had deleted two of my tweets for copyright violations. The email also contained a threat: If I continued to violate BAML's rights, my Twitter account would be deleted. Needless to say, I deny the allegation. Quoting from or posting a brief segment of a BAML document is not a violation of copyright.
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The Triumph of Email
Why does one of the world’s most reviled technologies keep winning? By Adrienne LaFrance.
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Glitchet 0.31: Modern Communications
The way we interact with each other is modulated by technology. Letters and old photos are superseded by images, texts, reminders that Facebook's algorithm pushes at us. Exes and estranged friends surface themselves on LinkedIn. The dead haunt our inboxes. Also, some cool glitch tools!
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Busy and distracted? Everybody has been, since at least 1710
e rise of the internet and the widespread availability of digital technology has surrounded us with endless sources of distraction: texts, emails and Instagrams from friends, streaming music and videos, ever-changing stock quotes, news and more news. To get our work done, we could try to turn off the digital stream, but that’s difficult to do when we’re plagued by FOMO, the modern fear of missing out. Some people think that our willpower is so weak because our brains...
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The Forgotten Father of the Information Age
Shannon had a weakness for juggling and unicycles, but his fingerprints are on every electronic device we own. By Siobhan Roberts. (Apr. 30)
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Science Fiction Science Fact SF2 (1987)
John Bluck, NASA Lewis Research Center and Dr. Carrie Heeter, Michigan State University
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Alien Interpreters: How Linguists Would Talk to Extraterrestrials
In the upcoming sci-fi drama "Arrival," several mysterious spacecraft touch down around the planet, and humanity is faced with how to approach—and eventually communicate—with these extraterrestrial visitors. In the film, a team of experts is assembled to investigate, and among the chosen individuals is a linguist, played by actress Amy Adams. Though the story is rooted in science fiction, it does tackle a very real challenge: How do you communicate with someone—or how do you learn that individual's language—when you have no intermediary language in common?
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China’s quantum satellite could make data breaches a thing of the past
The Micius satellite will encrypt data using fundamental laws of physics rather than crackable codes. By Robert Young.
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The FCC Just Caved in to Republican Demands That It Halt Work on Major Issues
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s tenure at the agency is coming to an end. By Sam Gustin.
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