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Daily archive Aug 9, 2012

Internet School is an idea Silicon Valley could embrace

Yale professor David Gelernter's offers a nice seed of an idea for a local Internet school in an op-ed piece in today's Wall Street Journal. (And it's refreshing, by the way, to see an op-ed piece in the WSJ Read More →

Google roundup: Safari settlement; Nexus Q postponement; search privacy concerns

News galore in the gargantuan world of Google: • It's official. Google will pay $22.5 million to settle charges that it bypassed the privacy settings of users of Apple's Safari Web browser, which did not allow certain Read More →

Samsung to look into child-labor claims at Chinese factory

Electronics giant Samsung, the Android manufacturer that has risen to be the top maker of cell phones worldwide, reportedly is sending a team of inspectors to investigate claims that a Chinese factory that assembles its phones and DVD players is Read More →

Quoted: on Australia and racist Facebook page

"We don't live by American laws here in Australia, we live by Australian laws and this is an Australian who is using the fact that Facebook is based in the U.S. to get away from Australian laws." — Stephen Read More →

Off topic: Map of the universe, new species, dumping religion, lemon-aid for Detroit

A fly-through video of the largest 3-D map of the universe yet. (via Space.com) From a SpongeBob lookalike to a millipede that resembles a sausage, the top 10 new species of the year. (via Read More →
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