Mar 9
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There are 22 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles , post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week – you go and look for your own favourites: Read …
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New and Exciting in PLoS ONE [A Blog Around The Clock] (ScienceBlogs)
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Mar 9
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Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, three eggheads (or Wolverines, as it were) at the University of Michigan claim they can break it simply by …
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1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity (Engadget)
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Mar 8
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Website usability testing identifies a precise methodology devoted to uncover specific bugs, idiosyncrasies and ambiguities in the way that website design impacts the effective use, legibility, navigation, and user experience of your website. In this MasterNewMedia guide you can find the best free website usability testing tools available out there. Heat map of MasterNewMedia homepage created …
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Website Usability Testing: Guide To The Best Free Tools And Services (MasterNewMedia.org)
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Mar 8
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Thirty seven multi-functional robots, which were customized to serve the visitors of Shanghai World Expo, made their debut in Shanghai Sunday. Besides dancing and singing, the 1.55-meter tall robots, shaped after the Expo mascot Haibao, could “communicate” with visitors in six languages and take photos for them, said Chu Jian, vice president of Zhejiang University, a key designer of the robots …
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37 robots to serve Shanghai World Expo (People’s Daily)
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Mar 8
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Thirty seven multi-functional robots, which were customized to serve the visitors of Shanghai World Expo, made their debut here Sunday.
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37 robots to serve Shanghai World Expo (China Economic Net)
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Mar 8
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Not very often does a small city in far-off Camarines Sur hosts a platoon of movie/TV stars at one time.
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Star-studded Tinagba Festival in Iriga City (Manila Standard Today)
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Mar 7
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The days are past when University of Melbourne students arrived for the academic year with just a notebook and pen – and perhaps for the scientifically-minded, a slide rule.
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From the Vice-Chancellor (University of Melbourne University News)
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Mar 7
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As companies spend millions of dollars to ensure that their global brands are localized accurately and communicated effectively in different foreign languages for the markets they operate in, Nicholas Goh, CEO of Verztec Consulting Pte Ltd reveals that a more cost-effective option of localizing or creating market-specific brands may be open to the company, depending on its ultimate global brand …
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Gain Local Advantage by Globalizing your Brand (PRWeb)
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Mar 7
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Returning to Seattle after nearly a dozen years away, journalist and big eater Hugo Kugiya seeks to renew his vows with the city by exploring its smaller eateries. What he finds are the unique cultures and cuisines that keep a city interesting and alive.
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Discovering Seattle’s soul in its small eateries (Seattle Times)
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Young: Tell me about how you came to Lawrence. Gilbert: I grew up in the Minneapolis area. When I was five we moved out to the suburbs. I grew up in Minnetonka. I went to Carleton College, and went there as a scientist. I took all these science courses, and got to the end of sophomore year and decided I wanted to be an English major, which astonished my parents, but it was a premonition about …
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The Secret lives of our Profs (The Lawrentian)
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