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Do Too Many Friend Connections Harm Unique Thinking?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 5, 2009 9:35 AM / 11 Comments

Does having too many friends in online social networks make radical, innovative thinking harder to develop and foster group-think instead? That's the conclusion of one scientist contributing to a recent

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5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind
Written by Alex Iskold / October 1, 2008 8:52 PM / 82 Comments

From the dynamics of social networks to market bubbles, science has a lot to say about the world of technology. One of the great discoveries of modern science was

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Web 2.0 Start-Ups = Social Science Experiments
Written by Bernard Lunn / June 29, 2008 10:30 PM / 8 Comments

Recently I had the great pleasure to hear the inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, give the keynote at the Tetherless World Conference organized by Rensellaer Polytechnique Institute (RPI)

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Journalism Students + Computer Science Majors = Better News Apps for All
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 8, 2009 9:35 AM / 7 Comments

The good old days of print journalism are becoming just that - good old days, the domain of old timers who reminisce about tape recorders and digging through other people's

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Shouldn't Schools Have Embraced Second Life By Now?
Written by Dana Oshiro / September 16, 2009 9:00 PM / 29 Comments

When it first launched, the tech and business worlds were transfixed on Linden Labs' Second Life as a new marketplace. Science fiction fans flocked to the site for its Snow

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reCaptcha: Stopping Spam While Transcribing Books
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 24, 2008 11:35 AM / 9 Comments

CAPTCHAs, those pesky challenge-response tests that many web sites use to determine whether you are human or a spambot, are an annoyance to many users. According to a report in

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Magazines Come to Google Book Search
Written by Frederic Lardinois / December 9, 2008 11:40 AM / 7 Comments

Google today announced that it is adding magazines to its lineup for Google Book Search. These magazines include publications like Popular Science and New York Magazine, but also more obscure

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Live Blogging Future of the Web Debate
Written by Richard MacManus / June 11, 2008 12:56 PM / 5 Comments

The Rensselaer interactive debate on the future of the Web is just starting now and is being webcast live here (note: Silverlight required). You can watch the debate and submit

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Farecast: Travel Nerds Rumored to Have Been Bought
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 14, 2008 10:29 PM / 5 Comments

Seattle PI tech beat reporter and frequent news breaker John Cook is reporting that the math-heavy travel price prediction service Farecast has been bought by parties unknown for $75 million.

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Obama, Kids, & All Tomorrow's Web Apps: President Focuses on Tech Education
Written by Jolie O'Dell / November 23, 2009 9:00 PM / 4 Comments

At the White House today, President Obama talked robots, hung out with the guys from MythBusters, and launched a campaign designed to create smarter, techier American kids. "Reaffirming and strengthening

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