Tag Archives: Affects

DarkList Links Silk-Road-Style Drug Dealers

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When the Department of Justice took down the anonymous, Bitcoin-based narcotics bazaar known as the Silk Road in October, the dark web drug market didn’t disappear. It splintered into smaller markets...

Pope Francis Talks Internet

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“The internet …,” writes Pope Francis today, “offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.” With that, Pope Francis offered the world some...

Netflix Can Make The Public To Care About Net Neutrality

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I’m not the first person to say that if you want to get Americans to care about an issue, hit them in their pocketbooks. Which is why Netflix—purveyor of fine streaming content to more than 40...

‘The Banner Saga’ Review: Beautiful, But Not Quite Brilliant (PC)

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The moment I laid eyes on indie developer Stoic’s The Banner Saga, I wanted to love everything about it. The art-style is simply jaw-dropping, calling to mind classic Disney—Sword in the Stone comes...
    






How Facebook Memes Evolve And Spread

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As a publisher, understanding the flow of information online is as important as a civil engineer understanding traffic congestion. Unfortunately, so much of what takes place online has been...
    






Is Verizon’s Victory A Streaming Music Killer?

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Until yesterday I was hopeful about the future of the music business. Today not so much. All the indicators and predictions showed the growth of music streaming to not only offset the decrease in...
    






Fox Sports tests weather gadgets for Super Bowl

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Fox Sports testing out weather-related gadgets for use at Super Bowl PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Fox Sports has a few weather-related tricks up its sleeve for next month's Super Bowl...
    






Multimillion-Pound Brain Fund Set Up To Stop Teachers Buying Into Neuroscience Myths

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Neuroscience is full of urban myths that have latched on to the collective consciousness and stuck there. It’s not just the obvious ones like the old saw that “humans only use ten per cent of their...
    






Facebook To Help Brands Convert 55 Million U.S. Hispanics

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In 2014 brands must finally resolve their fate with Hispanic consumers. Most companies see only the growing number of Hispanic consumers and their estimated $1.5B purchasing power in 2015, yet fail...