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Google in China: Not the Whole Story
In January, Google announced that due to Chinese hackers attacking Google users, Google may leave China. Google also stopped censoring search results, as per its original policy in China.
While much of the mainstream news coverage hail this as a win for freedom of speech, some scholars finds that some important points are missing from the dominant framing of this topic.
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DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean, a virtual commons being developed by UCSB's Environmental Media Initiative, is working to create global communities using new media to advance ocean sustainability and protect ocean ecosystems.
UCTV recently featured DigitalOcean. Click here to watch the video and learn more.
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Beware of results
After researchers at the University of Washington concluded that young children who watch television are at greater risk for attention problems and language delays, the creators of the popular infant and toddler video series "Baby Einstein" asked a judge to order the university to release the data used in the studies.
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Google Powermeter
Google recently launched "PowerMeter," a free software utility that monitors home electricity usage. PowerMeter works with the TED 5000 smart meter to transmit real time utility usage data, which can then be displayed on your Smartphone. This was paid for in part with governmental stimulus funds.
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CITS Faculty Lecture Series (FLS) Event: Andrew Lih
Can Wikipedia Survive Popular Success and Community Decline?
Wikipedia is among top five most visited web sites in the world, with the project achieving a level of notability matched only by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
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FLS: Bryon Reeves
Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses Compete.
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Obama advisor talks about techology for the global good
Obama advisor Aneesh Chopra, the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer, outlined the President’s vision for innovation and how technology could be put to work around the world during his keynote address at the Emerging Technologies/Emerging Economies (http://nanoequity2009.cns.ucsb.edu/) conference in Washington, DC. “This is a chance to elevate our performance,” Chopra told conference participants, media and other guests from around the world at a luncheon at the National Press Club on November 4. Chopra urged his audience to focus on the users of technology, whether they’re farmers in a third-world country, pregnant women wanting the best for...
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Sen. Ron Wyden Talks about Technology and Climate Change
Just a month before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (http://en.cop15.dk/), energy experts who had gathered in Washington, DC, for the Emerging Technologies/Emerging Economies (http://nanoequity2009.cns.ucsb.edu/) conference headed to Capitol Hill to talk about how technology and innovation will help emerging economies limit energy consumption and production of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. Senator Ron Wyden (http://wyden.senate.gov/welcome.cfm) of Oregon was the first speaker at the November 5 event, which drew several dozen Capitol Hill staffers, media, researchers, and others. Wyden, a Democrat who serves on the Senate Energy Committee, chairing its Subcommittee on Public Lands...
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Obama Advisor at CNS Conference: Tech Solutions to Global Crises
News from the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars MEDIA CONTACT: Anna Davison, Center for Nanotechnology in Society, University of California, Santa Barbara, +1 (805) 893-5929, http://nanoequity2009.cns.ucsb.edu (http://nanoequity2009.cns.ucsb.edu).
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