June 2012
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Scientists Create Wi-Fi That Can Transmit Seven... →
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American and Israeli researchers have used twisted vortex beams to transmit data at 2.5 terabits per second. As far as we can discern, this is the fastest wireless network ever created — by some margin. This technique is likely to be used in the next few years to vastly increase the throughput of both wireless and fiber-optic networks.
These twisted signals use orbital angular...
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“Forget the never-ending “women aren’t funny” line that spews from every male...”
– The funniest feminist, a tribute to Nora Ephron from Alex Leo
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Watchlifeandcode:
FF Chartwell is a “typeface” for infographics. Type in some numbers…and charts automatically appear.
OMG YOU GUYZ
I CAN’T EVEN
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Social Media Cheat Sheet →
I started a public document on Google which I shared hoping people would add their own tips about best practices for Social Media when it comes to news gathering and distributing news. I decided to post it here as well in its current form. If you’d like to add your own tips, click the link above.
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Build lists of sources using Twitter lists. Use this to get ahead of your...
Revealed: 64 Drone Bases on American Soil →
“How could any rational person expect their government to spend a full decade...”
– Glenn Greenwald, What Might Cause Another 9/11?
When the federal judge who sentenced Shahzad asked with disgust how he could try to detonate bombs knowing that innocent children would die, he replied: “Well, the drone hits in Afghanistan and Iraq, they don’t see children, they don’t see anybody....
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WatchJon Stewart: The circle of life of the political gaffe
Coroner rules that a dingo killed an infant in...
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Coroner Elizabeth Morris told a packed courtroom on Tuesday that a dingo was to blame for the attack at Uluru, which originally saw Azaria’s mother Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton jailed for murder and her husband Michael given a suspended sentence for being an accessory after the fact.
Both were later exonerated after a royal commission in 1987.
The case was the subject of the 1988...
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Small broadcasting team risks their lives to... →
Using a combination of in-studio anchors and citizens piped in from Skype reporting directly from the ground, Syria al-Shaab manages to broadcast 12 hours of live programming a day from a country that won’t allow foreign reporters in.
“They hacked into our Skype account about a week ago and sent a virus to all the contacts in it. Every time they do something like that, we know we are doing our...
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Awesome Job Alert: Senior Digital Producer for...
The Senior Digital Producer will take the lead in presenting Reuters TV and the broader Reuters Digital Video online – programming and promoting video on Reuters web and social media platforms. This producer will work with other senior producers and managers to ensure that all video and displays are editorial accurate and compelling, and in sync with Reuters reporting. He or she will take a...
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Bain profited from government aid that Romney... →
Mitt Romney likes to say that “government does not create prosperity.”
His record in the private equity industry shows otherwise.
During Romney’s years as chief executive of Bain Capital LLC, companies owned by the firm received millions of dollars in benefits from a variety of state and local government economic development programs.
