Apple News: iPad city… how the Apple tablet is powering London
It could be how you order a drink in the pub or shop for clothes or even how doctors look up medical notes — all that’s needed is an iPad. There’s an iRevolution going on and London is leading the way. Here’s how the city has been iPadded out.
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Technology News: The Potential and the Risks of Data Science
Columbia University held a daylong symposium on Friday as a kind of brainy coming-out party for its new Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering. The institute is a collection of interdisciplinary centers including ones for cybersecurity, financial analytics, health analytics, new media and smart cities. It points to the direction universities will have to take if the bundle of technologies called Big Data — new data and artificial intelligence tools — really are to transform industries, as its champions predict.
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Programming News: BOOL/bool/Boolean/NSCFBoolean
Truth. Vēritās. The entire charter of Philosophy is founded upon the pursuit of it, and yet its exact meaning and implications still elude us. Does truth exist independently, or is it defined contingently against falsity? Can a proposition be at once both true and false? Is there absolute truth in anything, or is everything relative?
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Photography News: A Spring Cleaning Checklist for Your Camera
It’s spring again — in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway. Which means it’s around that time of year when people like to start fresh; you change the batteries in your smoke detectors, sweep up those mutated dust bunnies hiding behind the sofa, finally throw out the Christmas leftovers. The usual. Amongst all the unsavory tasks on your checklist should be a spot for your camera.
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