Category: Hack
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Women are the dominant users of a wide variety of new technologies
Read the entire article at the Atlantic, Sorry, Young Man, You’re Not the Most Important Demographic in Tech The body of evidence amassed by Intel researcher Genevieve Bell indisputably shows that men’s role in technology adoption continues to be overstated. Here’s a summary she gave of her work in a "Big Ideas" talk last month…
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Web Fonts in Google Documents
How did I miss this? Google Web Fonts in Google documents. Often the best way to get your point across is to present your idea in a creative, captivating way. They added over 450 new fonts to Google documents to make it easier for you to add a little something extra to whatever you create.…
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121-Megapixel Photo of Earth
A timelapse of Planet Earth from Electro-L, a geostationary satellite orbiting 40000km above the Earth. The satellite creates a 121 megapixel image every 30 minutes with four visible and infrared light wavelengths. The infrared light appears orange in these images, and shows vegetation. The images were obtained beginning on May 14th, 2011 and end on…
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What’s Behind Facebook’s ‘Sponsored Stories’
This was in the NYTimes One Day, Nick Bergus came across a link to an odd product on Amazon.com. He found it irresistibly funny and, as one does in this age of instant sharing, he posted the link on Facebook. Within days, friends of Mr. Bergus’s started seeing his post among the ads on Facebook…
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Free Wi-fi, Friend or Foe?
As mobile devices become more and more popular the demand for easy access to wi-fi increases as well. It is already pretty easy to access wi-fi in most places including coffee shops, restaurants, the mechanics, etc. Access to wifi will only become wider spread and easier to access especially when it is predicted 1 in…