Reshaping New York – From buildings to bike lanes to painting over Broadway, how the city changed in 12 years of Bloomberg
Auteur/autrice : noflux (Page 455 of 633)
« Plenty of schools use iPads. But what if the entire education experience were offered via tablet computer? That is what several new schools in the Netherlands plan to do. There will be no blackboards or schedules. Is this the end of the classroom? » (via New iPad Schools in Holland Hope to Revolutionize Education – SPIEGEL ONLINE)
Khalil Shreateh found a vulnerability in Facebook.com and, due to miscommunication, was not awarded a bounty for his work. Let us all send a message to security researchers across the world and say that we appreciate the efforts they make for the good of everyone.
The state that is building such a formidable apparatus of surveillance will do its best to prevent journalists from reporting on it. Most journalists can see that. But I wonder how many have truly understood the absolute threat to journalism implicit in the idea of total surveillance, when or if it comes – and, increasingly, it looks like “when”.
Moving Sidewalk at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris (par Gizmodo)
(Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Facebook a commencé à tester, “à très petite échelle”, un système permettant à ses membres de payer pour des achats depuis leur appareil mobile en utilisant leur compte sur le réseau social en ligne. En s’identifiant, les intéressés n’auront plus besoin d’entrer leurs coordonnées bancaires, car l’application récupérera automatiquement les numéros de carte de paiement ou de compte PayPal qu’ils ont fournis par le passé au réseau.
A couple of crooks decided that Apple’s iPad was prime to pull a Royal Mail compensations claim. The plan: Send ice in a packet, insure it as an iPad.