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Open DNS Free Filtering System How to set UP

OpenDNS is an incredible free Filtering system on the internet. It allows you to reroute your Internet content through Open DNS servers.   208.67.220.220  setting for DNS It will definitely keep your internet safe and clean, and most importantly,your kids are protected. visit www.safenetsolutions.net for more   

How to access TV news on any topic for the last three years

This is fantastic news for journalists and voters: the Internet Archive has launched the free TV News Search & Borrow service. The collection now contains 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C.  The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired.  Older materials are [...]

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Welcome to 2035…the Age of Surprise

The U.S. Air Force just released today a jaw-droppingly impressive, fast-paced video on accelerating change, “Welcome to 2035…the Age of Surprise” (see video below). Produced by the U.S. Air Force Center for Strategy and Technology at The Air University, the video was based on Blue Horizons, a multi-year future study being conducted for the Air Force Chief of [...]

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Bing likes Britannica, Bruno burns

Microsoft has announced a deal with Encyclopaedia Britannica to add entries from the prestigious reference work to Bing search results. The deal appears related to Britannica’s decision in March to stop producing a print edition and Google’s “knowledge graph,” which consolidates search information about specific subjects. Et tu, Bruno? For example, a Bing search for Giordano Bruno [...]

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A universe of self-replicating code

What we’re missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology. People treat the digital universe as some sort of metaphor, just a cute word for all these products. The universe of Apple, the universe of Google, the universe of Facebook, that these collectively constitute the digital universe, and we can only see [...]

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Txting makes u stupid

Yeah, you knew that already. How else to explain the zombies who text while driving or randomly jaywalking in traffic, AGKWE*? But now there’s a reason: they have a tiny vocabulary. Textisms Or so says says University of Calgary linguistics researcher Joan Lee, who interviewed texters in research for her master’s thesis. Texting is associated [...]

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Bypass the Internet!

I’m sick of hearing about how we need to cave in to repressive governments and throttle back Google, Twitter, Facebook, and other information services and accept Web censorship and limits on free expression. Get the hell off my cloud. “If a full-surveillance world prevents us from speaking, then we need to make another platform where [...]

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Evi trumps Siri for general knowledge

Move over Siri, Evi is the new kid in town. It’s no Watson, but Evi, created by True Knowledge, a Cambridge, U.K.-based semantic technology startup, like Siri, can answer questions posed by voice (using Nuance software) in a conversational manner or by typing. But unlike Siri (only available on iPhone 4S), Evi runs on the [...]

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China Telecom to launch telecom services in Europe; U.S. next

China Telecom is reportedly launching mobile services in the U.K., the first time a Chinese telecom operator has launched MVNO services outside China (an MVNO is a mobile operator that sells services directly to its customers but does not own any of the infrastructure), according to China Tech News. The service will target Chinese residents [...]

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