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Emails suggest reviews from the Wirecutter are “pay to play” (2014)
Does the Wirecutter offers unbiased real reviews? Not even close. This story is about a little company taking on a fake review site owned by the NY Times.
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Google: Mowing lawn with goats
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Google Opens Up Its EPUB Archive: Download 1 Million Books for Free
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager Over the years, we've heard a lot from people who've unearthed hidden treasures in Google Books: a...
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One Small Leap for Open Source, One Giant Leap for Mankind
Search for and read the latest Red Hat news and press releases about the people and products shaping the future of open source and open hybrid cloud technology.
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2010 Nobel Prize for Peace Awarded to Liu Xiaobo
The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"
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Hacking the D.C. Internet Voting Pilot
The District of Columbia is conducting a pilot project to allow overseas and military voters to download and return absentee ballots over the Internet. Before opening the system to real voters, D.C. has been holding a test period in which they've invited the public to evaluate the system's security and usability. This…
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Happiness and Life Satisfaction (2017)
Self-reported life satisfaction differs widely between people and between countries. What explains these differences?
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Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots
Predictably, some argue the iPad doesn’t do enough. It needs a keyboard or a removable battery or multitasking ability or whatever. But there’s an interesting backlash to that backlash. (Meta-backlash!) The discussion has people openly discussing an ugly truth that doesn’t typi…
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How did the web lose faith in charging for stuff?
We’ve been talking about the basic wonder of putting a price on your product for such a long time that it almost seems trite at this point. I certainly thought that point would have lost propulsion long ago, but I keep being surprised by the contrary. It seems that the web has been so thor…
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This was a triumph.
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