Tag: progress
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Wired.co.uk reviews Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Wired UK)
Hail Caesar The king of the swingers makes a wise ruler in the latest Apes movie © 2014 20th Century Fox It’s perhaps an unenviable task to come into a movie franchise for the eighth instalment. Even though Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is only the second […]
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Startup of the Week: GoEuro (Wired UK)
CEO Naren Shaam Berlin-based GoEuro is a travel platform that allows people to search for, compare and book plane, train, bus, rail and car hire options for travelling across Europe. It was set up by 31-year-old Naren Shaam and provides an alternative to visiting different sites for each of […]
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Google reinstates deleted links to Guardian articles (Wired UK)
Shutterstock Google has reversed its decision to remove several links to Guardian articles following action it took under its new process for dealing with “right to be forgotten” requests. Google has been removing links following a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice that ordered information pertaining to […]
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Facebook’s study has even irked the journal that published it (Wired UK)
Shutterstock The journal that published the controversial study in which Facebook manipulated the emotions of users by altering content in users’ News Feeds, has published an Editorial Expression of Concern regarding the study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has acknowledged that while the study represents an […]
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Men would rather receive an electric shock than think (Wired UK)
I can’t take it anymore, these, these….. thoughts!Shutterstock When asked to sit alone in a room, with nothing but a button that administers an electric shock, men will choose to take that shock more often than not. Yes, a series of 11 experiments has confirmed that men would rather […]
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A 4th of July Roundup : TreeHugger
It’s funny when you look back at TreeHugger’s Independence Day stories; most used to be themed around declaring Energy Independence and conserving fuel. Since the explosion in fracking of the last few years, energy independence has a whole new meaning and it ain’t green. I suppose we should have been careful what we wished for. […]
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Fake some American independence pride with these movies (Wired UK)
Shutterstock Fourth of July weekend. It’s a time for barbecues, fireworks, road trips, and generally celebrating America. (Or, y’know, ‘MURICA.) But for those of us who have always been somewhat movie-obsessed, it’s a long weekend during which we can cram in more than a few blockbuster matinees. Hollywood, of […]
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This simple app lets anyone be an encryption expert (Wired UK)
Shutterstock Encryption is hard. When NSA leaker Edward Snowden wanted to communicate with journalist Glenn Greenwald via encrypted email, Greenwald couldn’t figure out the venerable crypto program PGP even after Snowden made a 12-minute tutorial video. Nadim Kobeissi wants to bulldoze that steep learning curve. At the HOPE hacker conference in New […]