Cool – History of Data synopsis

Popular Science Stephen Woofram is a mathematician who founded Mathematica and developed the company’s software. " “Gallery: A History Of Data By Stephen Wolfram and the Wolfram|Alpha staff 20,000 B.C....

Public Intellectuals: Rise of Librarian and Decline of Author

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" There are two flavours of public intellectual: librarians and authors. Librarians possess a synoptic view of mostly trivial and anecdotal data, interspersed with histories, accepted truths, slogans,...

Five Reasons Not to Buy a Verizon IPhone 4

So its finally official that the iphone 4 is now coming out for Verizon I heard that there might be a iphone 5 coming soon or a iphone 4gs. Should i buy the iphone 4 or wait for the new one if its actually coming out for verizon??Buy a Verizon IPhone 4?Here is five reasons...

Google Maps Street View, How do they do that?

Mojave, CA | If they were paying attention, travelers and folks in Mojave got a brief glimpse Monday morning of a Google Maps Street View vehicle. Used for gathering images and GPS data and more, Google...

Consumers demand higher welfare for chickens

More than two years after chicken welfare first hit the headlines with high profile campaigns by Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, new research reveals that people are choosing to buy more...

Personal Data Theft of 3.3 Million People With Student Loans

Student Loan Information of 3.3 Million Borrowers Stolen Educational Credit Management (ECMC) A company that acts as guarantor of Federal Student Loans announced that personally identifiable including, including names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of...

Numbers guru Nate Silver: Fewer Divorces in Gay-Friendly States

Numbers guru Nate Silver, in a FiveThirtyEight Politics Done Right article titled, "Divorce Rates Higher in States with Gay Marriage Bans", claims that over the past decade there is a decline in divorce rates. The...

Dots Connected

I read Eugene Robinson’s column in the Washington Post today and he provided the missing link for what I want to talk about. I think Robinson is the Post’s best journalist these days, so I am pleased to...

Hacker exposes false global warming claims

Well I still believe that we should clean up our acts " The CRU, which plays a leading role in compiling UN reports and tracks long-termchanges in temperature, has repeatedly refused to provide detailed...

Green does Orwell

In a move seemingly right out of some futuristic nightmare, the Dutch government has announced plans to track every car in The Netherlands. It is all for a good cause, naturally enough. The plan will tax...

New data offers first demographic picture of same-sex couples

The Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA Law analyzed newly released data by the U.S Census Bureau that offers the first demographic picture of same-sex couples. Advancing...

SQL Injection: Albert Gonzalez Steals 130M Credit Card Numbers

Albert Gonzales, 28, is charged with the largest case of credit and debit card theft in US history. Gonzales, from Miami, Florida, is already in jail for hacking into the databases of retail stores and stealing...

U.S. House Prices Keep Climbing with a 1.2% Rise in June

Integrated Asset Services(www.iasreo.com) today released its IAS360 House Price Index (HPI). Based upon the timeliest and most granular data available in the industry, the index for national house prices moved ahead another 1.2% in June.   With June’s gains--the...

Cyber attacks and Data Retention

While reading up on the latest spate of cyber attacks, e.g. on Twitter, Facebook, and Indymedia, I discovered the following website promoting efforts to protect our privacy from providers who are forced by government legislation to store all communication metadata.Meanwhile,...

Data Embedded Glasses for Multi-tasking Professionals

who could ever thought that x-ray glasses are the thing of the past. " Imagine a doctor reading notes on how to do a certain procedure in the midst of his operation. It might not only endanger the poor patient’s life but also might damage his eyes and concentration as well....

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