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• Morning team tackles high school civics - WXII The Triad

  17-01-2015 23:36
  
  Morning team tackles high school civics
  WXII The Triad
  100. WHO MAKES FEDERAL LAWS? THE SENATE? NO. IT'S EXECUTIVE? THE PEOPLE. WE, THE PEOPLE. JUDICIAL. NO. THAT'S -- I DON'T KNOW. WE THE PEOPLE. ALL RIGHT. WELL, NOW WE'RE GOING TO PUT OURSELVES TO THE TEST.
  
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• Scary Steam for Linux Bug Erases all the Personal Files on Your PC

  17-01-2015 18:52
  If you’re a Steam fan running Linux, the last thing you’ll want to do in the next few days is mess with your Steam files. Users on Valve’s GitHub Steam for Linux page are complaining about a nasty bug that has the potential to wipe out every single personal file on your PC. Even worse, users say the bug will even wipe out documents on USB connected drives. So much for local backups.
  The impact on you at home: The obvious implication if you’re running Steam on Linux is to be wary of t
  
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• Why I'm Still Excited About Google Glass

  17-01-2015 13:00
  
  I love covering Google, because the company is unpredictable. They believe in crazy moon-shot projects and have the resources to pursue them. And they put stuff into the public eye way, way before it's ready for prime time.
  It's fun enough when Google does this with software or online services. But it's really fun when they break new ground on hardware platforms.
  That's what they did with Google Glass. The wearable platform was ahead of its time, too advanced as a cultural phenomenon to be u
  
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• Rijksportaal komt dichterbij door haalbaarheidstoets

  17-01-2015 08:27
  In opdracht van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken (BZK) heeft Nederland ICT een haalbaarheidstoets uitgevoerd voor een nieuw Rijksportaal voor medewerkers van de overheid. De toets levert inzichten voor het rijk en voor deelnemende bedrijven.
  
  De nieuwe inzichten ondersteunen BZK bij de voorbereiding van het... lees meer
  
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• Google Glass: down but not out

  17-01-2015 02:40
  
  When Google said on Thursday it would end its Explorer program for Glass and stop selling the current version to consumers, a few premature obituaries were written for the head-worn device.True, Glass has struggled to find its place in the mainstream. Even at last week’s International CES, a mecca for geeks, we saw very few attendees sporting Glass, while a year before they were a common sight on the show floor.“Google Glass is a great example of good product looking for a problem,” sai
  
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• Big Data Digest: How many Hadoops do we need?

  17-01-2015 01:30
  
  Say hello to Flink, the newest distributed data analysis engine on the scene.This week, the Apache Software Foundation announced Apache Flink as its newest Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache also provides a home for Hadoop, Cassandra, Lucene and many widely used open source data processing tools, so Flink’s entry into the group speaks well for its technical chops.Don’t worry if you hadn’t heard of Flink before—it came to a surprise to us as well. Like Spark, another emerging data process
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Data and Science Don't Necessarily Make a Good Data Scientist

  17-01-2015 01:26
  
  Welcome to Analyzing Analytics, a new blog that examines the burgeoning world of Big Data analytics and explores how companies across a multitude of industries can leverage data to improve business performance. In today’s first post, we look at the insatiable demand for data scientists and identify the key attributes of a solid and effective scientist.This past year, the thirst for big data only intensified with greater recognition of the positive impacts it can have on a wide swath of busi
  
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• 3 things Microsoft has to prove at its Windows 10 event

  17-01-2015 00:50
  
  When Microsoft unveils the consumer editions of Windows 10 next week, key questions about the OS will be on the table. Will Windows remain relevant? In a world of choices, would you willingly choose Windows 10? And in a business where others make these choices for you, would they choose Windows 10?Its been said that, for people to want Windows 10 more than they did Windows 8, the system needs to return to many of the designs, themes, and functions of Windows 7. Well, theres already one compet
  
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