The 12 Coolest Things We Saw at the Consumer Electronics Show
Act One of this week's This American Life finds Mike Daisey, self-described worshipper in the Cult of Mac, visiting Foxconn, where many of their products are manufactured. It's an incredibly well told and heartbreaking story.
Am I wasting my time organizing e-mail? A study of e-mail refinding. (.PDF)
Big Brother Is Watching: Document Reveals Surveillance of Social Media, Blogs, Image-Sharing Sites
Computers are totally disrupting the job market: Because they take out the middle, it is a lot harder to pursue the American dream by working your way up the ladder. Climbing up rung by rung, you will find a machine staring down. And it won’t retire or move up the ladder to make room for you. Once in place, a retirement or promotion is not going to happen, it isn’t going to be opening up a spot.
The Facebook Search Engine – 7 Reasons You Will See It In 2012
A recent XKCD comic charted the difficulty of various games for computers
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Reddit To Go Dark January 18th To Protest SOPA
Researchers at I.B.M. have stored and retrieved digital 1s and 0s from an array of just 12 atoms, pushing the boundaries of the magnetic storage of information to the edge of what is possible.
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