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Cyberculture agenda: “Lessons from the Digital Classroom

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Lessons from the Digital Classroom MIT Technology Review Technologists and venture capitalists are betting that the data online learning generates will reshape education.   Hacking Team Leak Shows How Secretive Zero-Day Exploit Sales Work Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter It was not easy for Hacking Team to buy zero-day exploits to sell to governments.   Once again: … Read more

“Three University Projects Use Twitter to Understand Happiness, Hate and Other Emotions in America…and an Academic roundup…

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Three University Projects Use Twitter to Understand Happiness, Hate and Other Emotions in America It turns out that the fleeting pronouncements we post on Twitter are catnip for academics and others eager to find the allusive pulse of American society. Since Twitter launched in 2006, researchers have been hard at work figuring out how to … Read more