Media
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
There are a bunch of new Kindles if you’re into that whole e-reader thing. Your car will soon be able to read your mind if Nissan has its way. So just how long does your cellphone company keep your call…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Does the Web need an owner? Facebook is starting a political action committee. A small segment of you may be very excited that the iPhone 5 is scheduled to launch in October. I’m excited that scientists think they could reactivate dormant…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Facebook wants you to share everything …. aaaah! So what social networks are popular in other parts of the world? A nice infographic. Researchers reconstruct the videos people watch just by looking at their brain activity. Apple & Dropbox are…
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Netflix Roundup #2
Netflix signs a two-year agreement with Discovery (renewed, expanded, and non-exclusive). More on that note, Netflix plans to focus on TV Shows, as they comprise of “60 percent of the video streams viewed by Netflix members.” “Netflix plans to add…
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Unauthorised Assange Autobiography
Tomorrow Canongate, Julian Assange’s former publisher, plan to “publish ‘the unauthorised first draft’ of his autobiography without his consent, months after the WikiLeaks founder withdrew from a million-pound contract for his memoirs.”
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Apple devices rank top in customer satisfaction; Android, Nokia, RIM gnash teeth. And speaking of Apple, Adobe Flash now works on yr iGadget of any kind. The ex-Yahoo CEO may have just lost $10 million by calling her fellow board…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
App slaughter: Google’s killing off some products. The internet’s official red light district (.xxx) has arrived. Let the games begin! Not so green after all: Indoor weed farming and production is really bad for the environment. Did you see this…
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How To Write a Book in Two Months: The Rumpus Interview with Cole Stryker
Last spring, I met Cole Strkyer at a party where everyone had a tumblr but me. Just 27 years old, Stryker had recently sold a book about 4chan,
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Characters, Too Inspired
Five years ago Lynn Coady published a novel with a protagonist drawn partially from the life of a real, thirty-years-deceased poet, and a experienced firsthand earful from an audience full of the poet’s colleagues and friends. It wasn’t all ugly,…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Sometimes Google gets it wrong … which can be rough on the small businesses it marks as “closed” when they’re actually not. Has email driven the closure of the US Postal Service? Oooh, a pretty series of infographics on the…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Researchers have created a genetic computer that can be used to find and kill specific cancer cells. India is trying to help the poor by creating a biometric database of everyone in the country. An Apple employee left a super…
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Twitter Alter-Egos
Performance art is taking on twitter. Faux famous author accounts are in and they’re taking over. Laura Ingalls Wilder is pioneering the field with her twitter feed (@halfpintingalls) and not only do her tweets stay true to the Little House…