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François Hollande 'would lose to Marine Le Pen tomorrow' - Telegraph

François Hollande's presidency has taken a fresh turn for the worse after a poll showed he would lose to Marine Le Pen tomorrow, as the far-Right leader claimed her National Front party is "the centre of gravity" of French politics.

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Google Is Alive, It Has Eyes, and This Is What It Sees | Raw File | Wired.com

Sam Bland has spent a lot of time with Google Goggles. He's learned how it sees the world and how it communicates -- they play games together.

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Enigma Makes Unearthing And Sifting Through Public Data A Breeze | TechCrunch

There's a sea of interesting public data out there just waiting to be tapped into, but there's a problem -- most people have no earthly idea how to access it. And even if they're able to make some headway, there's still an untold number of connections between that data and even..

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Steve Jobs Proved Data Can Tell Any Story You Want

Charts can help us understand the aggregate but they can also be deeply misleading. Here's how to stop lying with charts without even knowing it.

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Every page is your homepage: Reuters, untied to print metaphor, builds a modern river of news

Article pages now have added depth and context, providing more opportunities for readers coming from social media to discover more content.

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Watch: A Website Getting Hacked Into Oblivion

Over the last few years, as hacking has moved out of the shadowy corners of the web and into the mainstream, the world has become increasingly familiar with the tools and techniques involved. One of the ones you hear about most frequently is the DDoS, or distributed denial of service attack--not an attempt to hack a web site so much as bring it to its knees by swamping it with activity.

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Bitponics Offers A Cloud-Managed Hydroponic Grow Op Anyone Can Operate | TechCrunch

Kickstarter-funded Bitponics was showing off its finished product at TechCrunch Disrupt NY's Hardware Alley today in New York, which is shipping out to backers in the next few weeks according to company cofounder Michael Zick Doherty. The Bitponics system is a cloud-based hydroponic garden ma..

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A new brick in the Great Wall

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SV Angel’s Brian Pokorny Says Facebook Isn’t As Much Fun Anymore — It’s A Utility | TechCrunch

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An Absurdist News Ticker That’s All Media, No Message

I love information-related art

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These Products Are No Joke, but the Online Reviews Are

Always nice to read stories that cast people in general in a positive creative light

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How an iOS Game Helps Betaworks Improve Its News Products

Great UI and fun play

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Fighting Information Overload With The Impending Doom Engine — Life Hacks

Information overload is an increasing problem in our lives. Those that learn to deal with it will have a major advantage in the next few yea…

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Former elevator repairman builds iPad app to keep 'global citizens' informed

Track180 launched its iPad app today to provide an easier way for people to consume information about global issues and current events.

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Futuristic Trash Can Gives A Call When It’s Full — The Pop-Up City

The so-called Big Belly is a high-tech solar-powered trash can that automatically compacts trash and recycables, and sends city cleaners a notification when it's full.

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What You Need to Know About the Syrian Electronic Army

After claiming responsibility for a takeover of the Associated Press Twitter account and the market-moving false news of an attack on the White House that followed, who are the so-called Syrian Electronic Army?