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1   | Online Databases that Define Our Planet |
Back in April, we looked at an ambitious European plan to simulate the entire planet. The idea is to exploit the huge amounts of data generated by financial markets, health records, social media and climate monitoring to model the planet’s climate, societies and economy. The vision is that a system like this can help to understand and predict crises before they occur so that governments can ...
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1 | How to Speed Up Internet Connection and Mozilla Firefox + free tools |
Sometimes speeding up Internet is a simple question of upgrading your plan or changing your service provider. However, sometimes even users who are paying for high speed Internet access can experience surprisingly slow Internet connection. Fortunately, there are ways to speed up Internet without having to change your ISP or buying a more powerful computer. Here are some tips on how to speed up you...
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1 | The internet as a metaphor for God? |
In her ground-breaking study of human identity in the age of the Internet (Life on the Screen), Sherry Turkle reports that numerous computer users she has interviewed talk of their online experience in spiritual terms. In these narratives people tell her that computer networks “resonate with our most profound sense that life is not predictable. They provoke spiritual, even religious speculat...
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1 | Tablets vs. traditional notebooks |
The advantages and disadvantages of tablet PCs are highly subjective measures. What appeals to one user may be
exactly what disappoints another. The following are commonly cited opinions of the tablet PC platform:
Advantages
• Usage in environments not conducive to a keyboard and mouse such as lying in bed, standing, or handling with a
single hand.
• Lighter weight, lower power models can func...
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1 | See how easily identifiable you are as you surf the web |
Traditionally, people assume they can prevent a website from identifying them by disabling cookies on their web browser. Unfortunately, this is not the whole story. When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer’s configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify y...
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