Good, Google does (sometimes).
Google Translate app adds 20 more languages
By week's end, the Android and iOS app will offer instant translation in a total of 27 languages.
Yoda: Google Translates 27 Languages
Advanced Cyber/IOStephen E. Arnold: IBM Comatose, Near Death
IO Impotency
Watson: The PR Blitz Continues
I know that IBM is trying to reverse 13 quarters of revenue decline. I know that most of the firm’s business units are struggling to hit their numbers.
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Pierre Cloutier: Quebec Institute of Research for Independence
Cultural Intelligence
The Quebec Institute of Research for Independence
Half a good idea.
Guy Pruneau
Original in French — Google ugly translation below the fold.
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JZ Liezskiewicz: Ethical Global Factory Sourcing
Commerce, Ethics
Ethical global factory sourcing.
Backed By Y Combinator, Maderight Matches Fashion Designers With Ethical Factories Around The World
Made Right: Global Manufacturing, Simplified
OSE: Open Source Miscellaneous
Software
Open Source Is Going Even More Open—Because It Has To
Google often gives its software away for free. It has long believed in open source software. But last week, the company took this idea to the next level.
Move over Skype, Facetime, Hangouts. Here comes Spreedbox, a fully open source, secure …
Spreedbox can offer private and secure video chat using Linux and open source technologies. All it needs is your support.
Jean Lievens: Buen Vivir – Future South
P2P / Panarchy, Resilience
Buen Vivir: South America’s rethinking of the future we want
Buen Vivir is a concept and practice influencing politics and communities across South America. It involves a radically different way of thinking about collective wellbeing and sustainable living.
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Unlike any index based on logarithmic economic indicators, in Buen Vivir the subject of wellbeing is not the individual, but the individual within a community in relation to a specific cultural-natural environment.
Mother Jones: Stop Crime with Basic Income
09 Justice, 11 Society
One City Tried Something Radical to Stop Gun Violence. This Report Suggests It's Working.
From 45 homicides to 11 in seven years.
Tim Murphy, Mother Jones
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Four times a year, the program's street team sifts through police records and its own intelligence to determine, with actuarial detachment, the 50 people in Richmond most likely to shoot someone and to be shot themselves. ONS tracks them and approaches the most lethal (and vulnerable) on the list, offering them a spot in a program that includes a stipend to turn their lives around.
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