New president appointed to Turkish communications board ahead of key 4.5G tender Ömer Fatih Sayan was appointed the head of the Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK) on Aug. 25, ahead of a key telecommunications tender on Aug. 26 The three most innovative Turkish women of 2015 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Technology Review magazine … Read more
KickassTorrents Taken Down By Domain Name Seizure TorrentFreak With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) is one the most used torrent sites on the Internet. DARPA’s Memex for searching the deep Web Boing Boing by David Pescovitz DARPA’s “Memex” program is developing new search tools for the vast majority of the Web that isn’t indexed by … Read more
Longlist for Man Booker Prizer 2011 Announced from Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog Born in Europe: The Ph.D.: Are Doctoral Dissertations a Waste of Time? PhDs as Cheap Labor: The Economist Analyzes The Disposable Academic from EU Pundit by Andis Kaulins A recent article at the Economist, Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic, alerts us to the fact … Read more