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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Open education and open technology in education | Opensource.com

Open education and open technology in education | Opensource.com
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A New Purpose for Old Smartphones: Cluster Computing

A New Purpose for Old Smartphones: Cluster Computing
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Five open hardware projects | Opensource.com

Five open hardware projects | Opensource.com
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Technical Analysis: Introduction | Investopedia

Technical Analysis: Introduction | Investopedia

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Stochastics: An Accurate Buy And Sell Indicator


Stochastics: An Accurate Buy And Sell Indicator
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Windows Users Can Now Create Bluetooth-Powered Devices With LightBlue Bean

Windows Users Can Now Create Bluetooth-Powered Devices With LightBlue Bean
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Google Maps updates Android API v2 – developers to get lite mode, toolbar, much more - The REM

Google Maps updates Android API v2 - developers to get lite mode, toolbar, much more
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fuse by outracks

fuse by outracks  - fusetools.com/referer/bf5bc003-d307-4b85-a4f4-5e2bea132b10

fuse - Beta opening soon - Request an invite today!
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Google Fiber Plans Major Expansion

Google Fiber Plans Major Expansion

Google Fiber Plans Major Expansion

Google Fiber confirmed for four new metro areas, 18 cities

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‘3 1/2 Minutes’ Film at Sundance: How Gun Culture, Fear and Racial Bias Killed Jordan Davis - America's 2014 Emmett Till


The Americans Freedom Paradox continues in which Afro American mothers fight to bring awareness to a nation that clearly shows no value in the lives of Afro Americans.  

To paraphrase Alexis de Tocqueville, the causality of a Revolution upon America's soil lies not in its ability to proclaim Freedom but in its inability to accept its dichotomy of Justice may give rise hereto.

Jordan Davis, Michael Brown, Trayvon Benjamin Martin  and the many innocent Afro American  Murdered through acts of Terrorism is America's 2014 Emmett Till reality.
 
3 1/2 Minutes: How Gun Culture, Fear and Racial Bias Killed Jordan Davis
American Experience . The Murder of Emmett Till | PBS

    

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Saturday, January 24, 2015

DIY "Physical Web" UriBeacons, Google's Open Version of Apple's iBeacon Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Advertising Packet

Getting Started | DIY Google's "Physical Web" UriBeacons with the Bluefruit LE Friend | Adafruit Learning System
DIY Google's "Physical Web" UriBeacons with the Bluefruit LE Friend

Why Pharma Payments to Doctors Were So Hard to Parse - ProPublica

Why Pharma Payments to Doctors Were So Hard to Parse - ProPublica
Why Pharma Payments to Doctors Were So Hard to Parse

Review of ‘X: A Novel’: A Portrait of Malcolm X’s Formative Years - The Root

Review of ‘X: A Novel’: A Portrait of Malcolm X’s Formative Years - The Root
In medieval Europe, when a man vanquished his enemy, he killed the enemy’s wife, the enemy’s children and any other kin he could find. It was brutal; it was terrible. But it was done so that the enemy’s family would have no support, strength or even knowledge of who the man was. So that no one else in the enemy’s family would take up the mantle of revenge upon him or the next generation. Destroy the family, they knew back then, and you destroy everything.
"America in the 1940s"  as well as Toady's America is no different."Malcolm X’s father, Earl Little, was a pivotal figure in the fight for black rights. In X: A Novel, co-author Ilyasah Shabazz—the third daughter of Malcolm X—recounts how her grandfather “was instrumental in getting Garvey out of jail” and “circulated the petition against the government for violating the human rights of Negroes in the United States.” So Earl was attacked. First the Ku Klux Klan burned his house down, and when that failed to stop him, KKK members killed him one night." - The Root
X: A Novel: How Malcolm X Grew From 'Little' to the Leader of a Revolution

America's 14th-century UAV policies will hurt its chances to be a drone innovation leader.

America's 14th-century UAV policies will hurt its chances to be a drone innovation leader.
America's 14th-Century Drone Policies

Hadean Lands: The text-only video game shows how the genre can be beautiful, innovative, and complex.

Hadean Lands: The text-only video game shows how the genre can be beautiful, innovative, and complex.
Text-Only Video Games Don't Need Graphics to Be Beautiful, Innovative, and Complex. Hadean Lands Proves It.

The Age of Analytics - Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics

Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics | ZDNet
Neo4j, the World's Leading Graph Database 
Build a Modern Data Architecture with Hadoop
After its IPO, Hortonworks is a $1 billion Hadoop company (again)
Look at what Google and Amazon are doing with databases: That's your future | ZDNet
Revolution Analytics lines up Hortonworks, Intel Hadoop pacts | ZDNet

Why Apache Solr search is on the rise and why it's going solo | ZDNet

Why Apache Solr search is on the rise and why it's going solo | ZDNet

Why Apache Solr search is on the rise and why it's going solo | ZDNet
Solr Features

​The TrackingPoint 338TP, the Linux rifle that's accurate up to a mile | ZDNet

​The TrackingPoint 338TP, the Linux rifle that's accurate up to a mile | ZDNet
​The TrackingPoint 338TP, the Linux rifle that's accurate up to a mile | ZDNet

Enterprise architects need to be 'doctors,' not 'x-ray techs,' says legendary EA advocate | ZDNet

Enterprise architects need to be 'doctors,' not 'x-ray techs,' says legendary EA advocate | ZDNet
About The Zachman Framework™
Enterprise architects need to be 'doctors,' not 'x-ray techs,' says legendary EA advocate | ZDNet
 

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Howard University Research Week 2015 Save the Date

Research Week 2015 Save the Date
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Jim Gates - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS

Jim Gates - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
Gates, S. James Jr. - Distinguished University Professor, University System of Maryland Regents Professor, John S. Toll Professor of Physics, and Center for String

Jim Gates - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
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Barrington Irving - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS

Barrington Irving - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
Barrington Irving - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
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Tanzeem Choudhury - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS

Tanzeem Choudhury - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
Tanzeem Choudhury - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
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Rich Robinson - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS

Rich Robinson - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
Rich Robinson - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
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Stephon Alexander - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS

Stephon Alexander - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
Stephon Alexander - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
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Andre Fenton - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS

Andre Fenton - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
Andre Fenton - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
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Bruce Jackson - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS

Bruce Jackson - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | PBS
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Martin Luther King Jr. Inspirations From The Black Community

Martin Luther King Jr. Inspirations From The Black Community
This Is Why We Have MLK Day

Tech Startup of the Week: Kaliki App In-Car Integration Allows Commuters to Listen and Drive [Video]

Tech Startup of the Week: Kaliki App In-Car Integration Allows Commuters to Listen and Drive [Video]
Tech Startup of the Week: Kaliki App In-Car Integration Allows Commuters to Listen and Drive

Best game development tools for Android to build killer apps | SiliconANGLE

Best game development tools for Android to build killer apps | SiliconANGLE
Best game development tools for Android to build killer apps

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: African-Americans, Jews come together to remember shared history of oppression | OregonLive.com

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: African-Americans, Jews come together to remember shared history of oppression | OregonLive.com
Martin Luther King Jr. Day: African-Americans, Jews come together to remember shared history of oppression

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Threat Level Raised at Delaware Air National Guard Base That Services Vice President Biden | NBC 10 Philadelphia

Threat Level Raised at Delaware Air National Guard Base That Services Vice President Biden | NBC 10 Philadelphia
One has to wonder, before the Paris attacks the French raised its Threat level
Threat Level Raised at Delaware Air Guard Base

This Fake Phone Charger Is Actually Recording Every Key You Type | TechCrunch

This Fake Phone Charger Is Actually Recording Every Key You Type | TechCrunch
This Fake Phone Charger Is Actually Recording Every Key You Type

Segregation Now: The Resegregation of America’s Schools - ProPublica

Segregation Now - ProPublica
Segregation Now: The Resegregation of America’s Schools - ProPublica
In the past many have rejected and in most cases vehemently argued this would never happen again. AfrocatioN position is Segregation never truly ended and shall progressively worsen with perceived Southern growth and the precipitous decline in US knowledge and economic prosperity. 

Segregation Now: The Resegregation of America's Schools
 
Saving Central from ProPublica on Vimeo.
In Tuscaloosa today, nearly one in three black students attends a school that looks as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened. Central High is one of those schools. Meet Principal Clarence Sutton Jr. as he fights to save his students from the effects of resegregation.

This short film by Maisie Crow is part of ProPublica's investigation into the resegregation of America's schools. Sixty years after Brown v. Board ruled "separate but equal" had no place in education, many schools have moved back in time, isolating poor black and Latino students in segregated schools.

Read ProPublica's yearlong investigation into Tuscaloosa schools, among most rapidly resegregating in the country: www.propublica.org/tuscaloosa

Or join the conversation on race and education by sharing your story with ProPublica and the Race Card Project: www.propublica.org/sixwords

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Afro American Jerry Lawson, Inventor of Modern Game Console

Jerry Lawson, Inventor of Modern Game Console, Dies at 70 | WIRED

 
  Jerry Lawson, left, in 2006, at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, California.
Photo: Peter Fuller/Courtesy VintageComputing.com

"As an engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor, Lawson designed the electronics of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System, later renamed the Channel F, in 1976.

Predating the release of Atari’s Video Computer System by a year, the Channel F was the first videogame machine that used interchangeable game cartridges, which Fairchild sold separately. Previous game machines like Atari’s Pong and the Magnavox Odyssey had all their games built into the hardware. Lawson’s pioneering design set the standard for the game consoles of today. - WIRED

Google Domains Launches To All In U.S. With Support For Blogger Integration, Templates And More Domain Endings | TechCrunch

Google Domains Launches To All In U.S. With Support For Blogger Integration, Templates And More Domain Endings | TechCrunch
"Google’s first foray into the domain name registration market launched with support for a number of standard features, like free private registration, free email forwarding to your Gmail inbox, free domain forwarding, support for up to 100 sub-domains, and support for the growing number of new domain endings (like .guru and .club) that are now emerging.
Google said at the time its service also includes phone support, indicating Google’s intention to market it more to business customers. | TechCrunch
 

Google Calendar’s Enforced Birthdays Show The Ugly Side Of Algorithms | TechCrunch

Google Calendar’s Enforced Birthdays Show The Ugly Side Of Algorithms | TechCrunch

This is the reason why one should remain anonymous online, shouldn't trust Tech Companies to be honest nor spread your life history via social media sites.

The New IBM z13 Is Not Your Father’s Mainframe | TechCrunch

The New IBM z13 Is Not Your Father’s Mainframe | TechCrunch


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Monday, January 05, 2015

SpaceX Gets Set for Unprecedented Rocket Landing: Follow Along Online - NBC News.com

SpaceX Gets Set for Unprecedented Rocket Landing: Follow Along Online - NBC News.com
The new twist comes after the Falcon 9's first stage finishes its main job. Three minutes after launch, the second stage is due to separate and fire up its own rocket engine to continue the trip. Then the first stage is slated to relight its rocket engines and go through a complex series of maneuvers to put itself safely down on a 300-foot-long, 170-foot-wide (91-by-52-meter) "autonomous spaceport drone ship" in the Atlantic Ocean - NBC News.com
Image: Launch profile 


An infographic by Jon Ross shows the key phases in the launch-and-landing plan for SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket during Friday's space station resupply mission.
... check out 'The Future of Space Launch Is Near' by John Gardi and Jon Ross.
- NBC News.com
 
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Keshia Knight Pulliam Speaks Out in Support of Bill Cosby | Variety

Keshia Knight Pulliam Speaks Out in Support of Bill Cosby | Variety
“Whoever is involved, those are the people who were there. I wasn’t there. I can only speak to the great man that I know and love, who has been so generous, who has been such a philanthropist and giving back millions of dollars to education and schools. And just the man I grew up knowing. It’s really not my place to speak on that. Unfortunately, in the court of public opinion everyone has formed their opinion, but we’re still in America and you’re innocent until proven guilty of any crimes.”
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Now There's an App For Detecting Government Stingray Cell Phone Trackers

SnoopSnitch is an app by the German SRLabs that detects IMSI catchers, stingrays.

What are Stingrays and IMSI catchers you ask?
IMSI catchers, otherwise known as stingrays, are those surveillance tools that masquerade as cell towers and trick mobile phones into connecting, spewing private data in the process. Law-enforcement agencies have been using them for awhile, but there's never been a good way for individuals to detect them. But that was before SnoopSnitch.
SnoopSnitch scans for radio signals that indicate a transition to a stingray from a legitimate cell tower. 
"SnoopSnitch collects and analyzes mobile radio data to make you aware of your mobile network security and to warn you about threats like fake base stations (IMSI catchers), user tracking and over-the-air updates."

imsi 

And just when you though Mobile Phones where safe for private discussions, financial transactions and not to mention those unmentionable selfies.

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Gogo creates fake SSL/TLS certificates so it can block video streaming.

Gogo creates fake SSL/TLS certificates so it can block video streaming.
Google engineer Adrienne Porter Felt realized during a flight on Friday that, for Google services and possibly others, Gogo was undermining encryption meant to keep pages secure.  
As Neowin first reported, the certificate which was supposed to show that Felt had a secure HTTPS connection to Google.com was raising a red X alert because it wasn’t signed by Google. It was signed by Gogo. Undermining the SSL/TLS protocols meant to encrypt data transmitted to and from a site is called a man-in-the-middle attack, and Gogo carries these out on its own users. The measures could give the company access to lots of user financial data because of the phony certificates.-Slate.com
All must be very careful when using any publicly available WIFI services. All are potential security risk for man-in-the-middle attacks.

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National Weather Service announces a tenfold boost in supercomputer power.

National Weather Service announces a tenfold boost in supercomputer power.
The new system should be fully operational by October and will eventually boast a 5 petaflop capacity, nearly double what close observers of the National Weather Service had anticipated. One petaflop is equivalent to a million billion floating point calculations per second.
These supercomputing upgrades will significantly improve our ability to translate data into actionable information... 
The upgrade would have come sooner, but last year IBM sold its supercomputing division to Lenovo, a Chinese company. “That froze us,” National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini recently told Mashable. Having its supercomputers made by a Chinese company raised “red flags” in Congress, so a new deal had to be assembled from scratch. -Slate.com

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The Internet of Things is a long way from being secure.

The Internet of Things is a long way from being secure.
The more devices and points of entry there are on a network, the more opportunities there are for an intruder to find a sneaky way in. -slate.com

2014 was the hottest year ever measured on Earth.

2014 was the hottest year ever measured on Earth.
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