Facebook at 800 million users suppresses ET/UFO disclosure with cointelpro spying, censorship Exopolitics | by Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd | With the premiere of a blockbuster movie The Social Network (Tagline: “You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies”), social network website Facebook.com - whose approximately 517,760,460 current members now total 7.6 % of the hum...
Q&A: Rudy Crew's Public-Private Ed. Perspective Education Week | Rudy Crew has had an eventful career in education. He's run two of the four largest school districts in the United States—New York City in the 1990s and Miami-Dade County from 2004 to 2008—where he initiated ambitious policies and pro...
Wolfram Alpha to Get Brainier TechNewsWorld | How much does a civil engineer in New Orleans make? What is the average temperature there? What are the differences in the trigonometric functions of sin, cos and tan? What is the exchange rate between the U.S. and the UK right now? | Throw one of ...
This Week in Small Business: Jobs! The New York Times | Dashboard | A weekly roundup of small-business developments. | What’s affecting me, my clients and other small-business owners this week. | The Big Story: Washington Takes Notice, China Gives Money | President Obama holds a special cabinet meetin...
According To The FBI, Internet Privacy Is Now Considered To Be Suspicious Activity Pakalert Press Share | When you use the Internet in a public place, do you prefer to have as much privacy as possible? Well, that makes you a potential terrorist. , Internet privacy is now considered to be suspicious activity. If you are out in public and you...
Real hero of the Facebook story isn't Mark Zuckerberg, it's the internet The Observer Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg started the site with $1,000 borrowed from Eduardo Saverin. Photograph: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP | The number to watch is not the putative $100bn valuation but the 845 million users that Facebook now claims to h...
Real hero of the Facebook story isn't Mark Zuckerberg, it's the internet The Guardian | Without the 'permissionless innovation' enabled by the internet, Facebook would not have got off the ground Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg started the site with $1,000 borrowed from Eduardo Saverin. Photograph: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP | Th...
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Microsoft Office 15 Goes to Technical Preview Newsfactor Get ready for the new Office. The Redmond, Wash.-based giant has started its technical preview of the new version, which is code-named Office 15, and speculation is starting to bui...
Anonymous And The War Over The Internet (Part II) Huffington Post | This is the second part of a two-part series on Anonymous, the amorphous Internet group that has emerged as a force in global affairs. In the first part, we track Anonymous' transition from pranks to politics. In this installment, we learn about it...
Celebrate Digital Learning Day With 40 Years of Times EdTech Reporting The New York Times | The New York Times has been covering technology’s role in education since the paper first began publishing — from an 1872 editorial questioning whether to teach science or the classics to boys of “ordinary abilities,” (PDF) ...
Can a home computer teach you to fly a real plane? Austin American Statesman | Can flight simulator training on a home computer teach you enough to fly a real plane? | Sort of. | Authorities say two teenagers in Utah planned to bomb their school, steal a plane and flee the country. They'd never flown a plane, but police said ...
Older women at highest risk of dying from breast cancer Newstrack India | Washington, Feb 8 (ANI): Among postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, increasing age is associated with a higher risk of death from breast cancer, a new study has found. | Willemien van de Water and his colleagues from the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, conducted a study to assess dise...
Delhi Metro to revamp its signalling and info display systems Indian Express | The Delhi Metro is going in for a revamp of its signalling and telecommunication software system. The passenger announcement system and the passenger information display system installed at the stations will be modified to give advance information to the commuters on whether an approaching train will be a four-coach or a six-coach train. | The ad...
