The ethics of domestic drone use may not be sorted out, but police and other officials aren't waiting around to deploy them in the field — and there are few fields more mainstream than the one at the Super Bowl. According to a report from The Lens, New Orleans city officials wanted to use a US...
"You! Citizen! Pick up that beer can." Anonymous Unmanned Drone
For 27-year old Bilal Ghalib, founding Iraq's first hackerspace isn't just about making a studio dedicated to creation, it's about rekindling the country's entrepreneurial spirit. According to a profile published today on Wired, Iraqi-American...
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Despite their convenience, not everyone prefers ebooks to print, and a new survey offers further evidence that traditional books may not be going away so soon. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center surveyed about 1,200 parents on how they like to read with their preschool-age children, and the results revealed that both parties usually prefer to read print books together. Perhaps not surprisingly, kids appear more receptive to ebooks in general, but just over half of those surveyed still favor paper; more than 70 percent of adults sided with traditional books, meanwhile.
The study concludes that ebooks and paper books likely play different roles in households where both are available, with parents more open to ebooks when traveling or at times when the child is left alone. The survey participants, however, were all iPad owners, with no figures...
Over half of kids preferred to read on paper with parents
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Neither Jon Stewart nor Bill O'Reilly are shy when it comes to expressing their political opinions, and soon the pair will be debating live — and they're taking the fight straight to the internet. On October 6th the duo will be livestreaming an event called "O'Reilly v Stewart 2012: The Rumble...
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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
— Bertrand Russell
There are over five and a half billion cell phones in the world, nearly all equipped with cameras: an...
