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Tech journalism needs to grow up – ©[theweek.com] | Things I grab, motley collection
We are all familiar with what passes for technology criticism. The internet is stuffed with digital publications dedicated to reviewing the hardware and software issuing from Silicon Valley. There are the fetish-style videos in which gleaming mach…
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The UK government should establish an expert technology ethics body to help address complex challenges, including health monitoring, autonomous vehicles and legal disputes such as the right to be forgotten, an independent review has recommended.
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Yes, newsrooms are shrinking — but journalism is growing | Things I grab, motley collection
Originally posted on Gigaom:
The latest wave of buyouts has hit the New York Times newsroom, with the paper essentially paying about 100 staffers to leave, by compensating them with up to three weeks of salary for every year they were employed. N…
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The incident of Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, and the dog is a famous one. It was 2007 and Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor, was visiting Putin at his presidential residence in Sochi to discuss energy trade. Putin, surely aware of Merkel’s well-known…
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The news is bleak. With Ebola on U.S. soil, we are one infected monkey away from the plot of Outbreak. Russia is threatening to invade the Ukraine. We are blowing things up in Iraq again, where starving children are being massacred. There is overp…
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Being connected is more of a good thing than it is a bad thing | Things I grab, motley collection
Originally posted on Gigaom:
As smartphones and social platforms become more and more ubiquitous, debate continues over whether being connected all the time — even in a small way — is good for us, and that debate is probably never going to be set…
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Education in (mostly) plain English
Education in (mostly) plain English is out! http://t.co/hCZLpkyxjQ Stories via @OUFreeLearning @aliceayel
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“Playing with other children, away from adults, is how children learn to make their own decisions, control their emotions and impulses, see from others’ perspectives, negotiate differences with others, and make friends,” says Gray, an expert on th…
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