The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
WIRED DANGER ROOM By Noah Shachtman July 28, 2010 |Categories: Spies, Secrecy and Surveillance The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens …
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The Rosetta Project is pleased to announce the Parallel Speech Corpus Project, a year-long volunteer-based effort to collect parallel recordings in languages representing at least 95% of the world’s speakers. The resulting corpus will include audio recordings in hundreds of languages of the same set of texts, each accompanied by a transcription. This will provide …
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(clips from the synopsis about the Frontline video documentary) Five years ago, Amy Costello reported a story for FRONTLINE/World. It was about the challenges of getting water in Africa, and a promising new technology called the PlayPump. After years of covering “bad news” in Africa, she was happy to report a story that seemed to …
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“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.” —Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises Exhibition on view National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC through September 6, …
“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.” —Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises Exhibition on view National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC through September 6, …
The Next Apollo Project in 140 Characters Innovators are being asked to friend Uncle Sam as the next good ideas for the government are being sought through social networks. By Emily Badger Anil Dash sums up the power of crowdsourcing with a simple question he put to his Twitter feed a few months back. It …
Conversation Starting Point: Afghan Self-stabilization from Below – and Above Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Lee Felsenstein Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Dave Warner Monday 12 July 2010 (Read from Bottom Up)
