THE FIFTH MAN is officially coming to the second city. Saks Fifth Avenue announces a newly renovated men’s store within its historic Chicago flagship on Michigan Avenue, opening in January 2014. Named THE FIFTH MAN, the store will ...
Searching through Twitter’s archive of tweets can be frustrating – they are sorted on the site by Twitter’s own algorithms, and older tweets tend to get buried. Google Forget it. Topsy, an analytics company, wants to do ...
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A study finds that just 35% of businesses can quickly detect security breaches and 58% store big security data for three months or less. McAfee have released a study that reveals how organisations around the world are unable to harness ...
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A key U.S. lawmaker has unveiled plans for a comprehensive review of the laws surrounding copyright in the United States to determine whether they are still relevant in the digital age. Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican and chairman of ...
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Believe it or not but dog houses have been around in one form or another for thousands of years. Archaeological evidence shows that dogs were quite prevalent in ancient Egypt (going back to 4500 BC or so) and were often held in high ...
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) today launched a beta of its discovery portal and open platform. Two years in the making, the DLPA will make available to the public 2.4 million records at its launch, including electronic ...
Momentum is growing in the U.S. Congress to overturn a U.S. Library of Congress ruling that took mobile phone unlocking out of the legal exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Late Monday, a group of senators and ...
The author of a successful White House petition calling on government officials to legalize the unlocking of mobile phones has turned his attention to broader reform of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Sina Khanifar, the ...
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A U.S. senator has proposed a bill that will allow consumers to unlock cellphones for use in other networks, after the administration of President Barack Obama backed over 114,000 petitioners who asked the government to legalize the ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has sided with more than 100,000 petition signers who asked the government to legalize the unlocking of smartphones. The White House on Monday agreed with petitioners who asked the Library of ...
The Library of Congress is now storing 500 million tweets per day as part of its efforts to build a Twitter archive, and has added a total of about 170 billion tweets to its collection. Twitter signed an agreement in April 2010 to ...
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In 1859, there was a solar event so extreme that witnesses reported seeing brilliant lights, electrical flashes, red glows and other aurora events, even in the South. It was the lead story on Sept. 3 of that year in the Memphis Daily, ...
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By Aaron Sutch The White House recently pledged $2 billion for energy efficiency improvements in federal buildings, underscoring efforts already underway to save energy in several government facilities. The government is the largest ...
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