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YouTube Anniversary of the Day: True story: These 19 seconds made Internet history. YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim’s otherwise boring elephant musings became the first video uploaded to a site that — exactly seven years later — now boasts 800 million unique visitors per month; 4 billion videos watched per day; and one hour of video uploaded every second.
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I work in edtech, and definitely know my way around an iPad better than most. This means I field a lot of questions about not just what apps or services might be interesting for the classroom, but also how to find these things and judge whether or not they’re even worth the time.
Enter edshelf.
Early Bird Special: Joe Biden gets the Bad Lip Reading treatment — and no one notices.
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Follow-Up of the Day: Internets Revolt as Facebook Backs CISPA: Facebook (and also Microsoft, Verizon, AT&T, Intel…) has come out in support of CISPA — SOPA’s evil twin that essentially would obliterate online privacy — and thewrath of the web has reached a fever pitch.
What’s the best way to fight back?
Sign the petition by Demand Progress:
“Internet users were able to push GoDaddy to withdraw its support of SOPA. Now it’s time to make sure Facebook knows we’re furious.”
And/or share your opposition on Facebook, natch.
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Follow-Up of the Day: Internets Revolt as Facebook Backs CISPA: Facebook (and also Microsoft, Verizon, AT&T, Intel…) has come out in support of CISPA — SOPA’s evil twin that essentially would obliterate online privacy — and thewrath of the web has reached a fever pitch.
What’s the best way to fight back?
Sign the petition by Demand Progress:
“Internet users were able to push GoDaddy to withdraw its support of SOPA. Now it’s time to make sure Facebook knows we’re furious.”
And/or share your opposition on Facebook, natch.
Majorana fermions are particles that act as their own antiparticles: if two of them collide, they annihilate. Researchers may have found quasiparticles (particle-like quantum states arising from multiple particles) that act like Majorana fermions in a thin wire connected to a superconductor.
Cartoon of the day. For more cartoons from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/I0llN0
