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Help Stop SOPA/PIPA

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After reading Jane Wells‘ post on WordPress blog and ‘ Fight For The Future‘  article today, I realized how SOPA act would affect our life and daily work we do. Internet is the most democratic place and Government is trying to own it. The Senate is scheduled to vote on the internet censorship bill on [...]

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Steve Jobs’ Vision of the World – Says This Will Be Your Greatest Life Revelation

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Pay close attention to this video, people. Not because it’s Steve Jobs, but because it’s some of the best advice you will ever get: Steve Jobs giving you his vision of life and how you can make a difference. When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re [...]

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CubeStormer II: The Fastest Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot

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CubeStormer II solves the Rubik’s Cube puzzle faster than the human world record. This ARM Powered robot was designed, built and programmed by Mike Dobson and David Gilday, creators respectively of CubeStormerhttp://youtu.be/eaRcWB3jwMo and Android Speedcuber http://youtu.be/ylFb4pqAUd8. The mechanics are constructed entirely from LEGO, including four MINDSTORMS NXT kits, with the addition of a Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone [...]

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Spirit Of India | Flash Mob Mumbai – CST

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200 ordinary Mumbaikars (aged 4-60) come together one busy Sunday evening for the pure joy of dancing. The historic CST station blares ‘Rang De Basanti’ on their speakers while surprised train commuters rush to see whats going on.

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Could the Taj Mahal Really Collapse?

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I came across few articles today mentioning  the possible collapse of Taj Mahal in next 3 to 5 years. Just search on google with the string ‘Taj Mahal Collapse’ and you will come across a long list of national and international news agencies citing this news – All of this in last week. Experts seem to deny [...]

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RIP Dennis Ritchie | printf(“Goodbye world.\n”);

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Dennis Ritchie (1941 – 2011) passed away last week (8 October 2011). I think all programmers know him. He  was the designer and original developer of the C programming language, and a central figure in the development of Unix. He spent much of his career at Bell Labs. He was awarded the Turing Award  in 1983, and [...]

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IBM’s Watson Supercomputer Defeats Humanity in Jeopardy

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IBM supercomputer Watson has emerged victorious against its human competition in a three-day competition between the massively intelligent machine and two of Jeopardy‘s greatest champions: Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. The competition wasn’t even close, with Watson earning $35,734 and his human competitors earning a combined $15,200. Today though, humanity — specifically Ken Jennings — [...]

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TIME Person of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg

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Today I spent my day reading about Mark Zuckerberg on TIME Magazine - For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year. Around [...]

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Reads for Today – 13 October 2010 | Sony’s Google TV-Powered devices , 100 ways to use your Ipod Touch,iOS 4.2 beta 3 in 5 minutes

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Voices from the Ground follows five people in the developing world and reveals how progress towards the Millennium Development Goals is affecting them – A great initiatives by Panos London. How “Windows Live” Is Obscuring Some Actually Good Products Sony’s Google TV-Powered Devices Have Arrived 100 Ways To Use Your iPod Touch iOS 4.2 Beta [...]

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Blank Spaces – Big Break Competetion Finalist

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BLANK SPACES – Written and directed by Rajneel Singh from New Zealand. Blank Spaces was a finalist in the Your Big Break competition a global search for the next great filmmaker. Their task was to capture the spirit of New Zealand in a 3 minute short film. Judged by Peter Jackson and produced by multi [...]

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Top Searches and Rising Search terms in India – Google Insights 2010

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Recently I came across Google Insights ( launched in 2008 but still in Beta Stage!) that provides a very simple way of finding out the most searched terms and rising search topics. We already had many other tools for the same purpose by Google already . The most closest one is Google Trends.Then why Google [...]

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Reads for 28 Sept 2010 – MS dumps Live Spaces

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Microsoft Dumps Live Spaces for WordPress CodePlex Foundation now called Outercurve How to get bought by Google, Facebook 5 Reasons the Media Cover Apple So Much Ayodhya verdict on Sept. 30 as Supreme Court clears way

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