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Let’s Make the Facts Louder than the Opinions: A public service message from the Weather Channel.

Let’s Make the Facts Louder than the Opinions: A public service message from the Weather Channel.
Source: sspnet.org

Digital-native outlets in Europe are more pragmatic than innovative, report suggests

"Digital-native news outlets in Europe tend to be more focused on delivering quality journalism than on creating new business models or innovating about ways news is presented, according to a new report from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism that studied 12 online startups in France,...
Source: niemanlab.org

The Results of the "Positive Action for Today's Health" (PATH) Trial for Increasing Walking and Physical Activity in Underserved

The Results of the "Positive Action for Today's Health" (PATH) Trial for Increasing Walking and Physical Activity in Underserved African-American C... - PubMed - NCBI
Source: nih.gov

Pisa tests: UK lags behind in global school rankings - BBC News: The UK is still lagging behind at education, with little

Pisa tests: UK lags behind in global school rankings - BBC News: The UK is still lagging behind at education, with little progress in international rankings.
Source: bbc.co.uk

The UK government's latest deluded idea: 'banning' underage sexting on social media: When the UK government is not busy

The UK government's latest deluded idea: 'banning' underage sexting on social media: When the UK government is not busy looking for ways to invade internet users' privacy, it's looking for ways to restrict what they are able to do online -- particularly when it comes to things of a sexual nature.
Source: betanews.com

Firefox zero-day can be used to unmask Tor browser users: The exploit code is reportedly a near match to the code used by

Firefox zero-day can be used to unmask Tor browser users: The exploit code is reportedly a near match to the code used by the FBI in 2013 to deanonymize Tor users; Mozilla is aware of the zero-day and is working on a fix.
Source: computerworld.com

In a final betrayal of the Cadbury brand, Kraft has quietly abandoned its promise to stick with Fairtrade: When John Cadbury

In a final betrayal of the Cadbury brand, Kraft has quietly abandoned its promise to stick with Fairtrade: When John Cadbury founded his legendary confectionary firm in 1824, he was selling just three products: tea, coffee and – perhaps more predictably – drinking chocolate. With the help of his...
Source: independent.co.uk

Reuters built its own algorithmic prediction tool to help it spot (and verify) breaking news on Twitter: "The world has

Reuters built its own algorithmic prediction tool to help it spot (and verify) breaking news on Twitter: "The world has a lot more witnesses now, and we can't be at everything. Our tool helps shift some of the burden of witnessing and lets journalists do much more of the high value-added work."
Source: niemanlab.org

This Smart Watch Will Charge Itself Using Heat From Your Skin: Matrix Industries comes out of stealth today to say that

This Smart Watch Will Charge Itself Using Heat From Your Skin: Matrix Industries comes out of stealth today to say that wearables can—and should—power themselves
Source: ieee.org

Kenyan Startup Uses the Sun to Turn Human Waste into Cooking Fuel: A Kenyan startup scales up its processing of human waste

Kenyan Startup Uses the Sun to Turn Human Waste into Cooking Fuel: A Kenyan startup scales up its processing of human waste with a new continuous flow system creating a new fuel stream for cooking
Source: ieee.org

Looking at the Bankbot Landscape: A few days ago, Keith Armstrong did a nice writeup about the proliferation of chatbots

Looking at the Bankbot Landscape: A few days ago, Keith Armstrong did a nice writeup about the proliferation of chatbots in money and banking.
Source: chatbotsmagazine.com

Python is the Growing Platform for Applied Machine Learning - Machine Learning Mastery: You should pick the right tool for

Python is the Growing Platform for Applied Machine Learning - Machine Learning Mastery: You should pick the right tool for the job. The specific predictive modeling problem that you are working on should dictate the specific programming language, libraries and even machine learning algorithms to use....
Source: machinelearningmastery.com

Patients and staff shut out of NHS transformation plans, says thinktank: King’s Fund says local health leaders have been

Patients and staff shut out of NHS transformation plans, says thinktank: King’s Fund says local health leaders have been told not to reveal plans until they are finalised and have been approved
Source: theguardian.com

100 Stories: The Impact of Open Access Jean-Gabriel Bankier. Promita Chatterji.

100 Stories: The Impact of Open Access Jean-Gabriel Bankier. Promita Chatterji.
Source: bepress.com

SARA: the Socially Aware Robot Assistant.

In this era of fears that Artificial Intelligence will destroy humanity, SARA is a Socially-Aware Robot Assistant, developed in Carnegie Mellon University’s ArticuLab. SARA interacts with people in a whole new way, personalizing the interaction and improving task performance by relying on information...
Source: cmu.edu

Mobile web browsing overtakes desktop for the first time: Smartphones and tablets become king as the share of desktop web

Mobile web browsing overtakes desktop for the first time: Smartphones and tablets become king as the share of desktop web browsing traffic shrinks to 48.7%, according to data
Source: theguardian.com

E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017.

blog post image E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017. I'm looking forward to engaging with as many of them as I can. Conversational technology. Why not have immediate access and personal learning support on platforms through messaging...
Source: agnate.co.uk

Why Technology Will Not Get Cheaper: The long-desired hope that digital publishing will be cheaper gets more cold water,

Why Technology Will Not Get Cheaper: The long-desired hope that digital publishing will be cheaper gets more cold water, as infrastructure and personnel costs continue to rise, with no real end in sight.
Source: sspnet.org

The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem: A Terror Management Theory Jeff Greenberg. Tom Pyszczynski. Sheldon

The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem: A Terror Management Theory Jeff Greenberg. Tom Pyszczynski. Sheldon Solomon.
Source: springer.com

Measures of Malaria Burden after Long-Lasting Insecticidal Net Distribution and Indoor Residual Spraying at Three Sites

Measures of Malaria Burden after Long-Lasting Insecticidal Net Distribution and Indoor Residual Spraying at Three Sites in Uganda: A Prospective Observational Study: In this prospective observational study, Grant Dorsey and colleagues measure changes in malaria burden after long-lasting insecticidal...
Source: plos.org