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Coursera Brings Its Online Education Platform To China
Posted in Featured, Online on 9th Oct, 2013
by Alex Muller
Coursera is making good on its promise to bring online education to students around the world.
Google Is Now Deleting Nine Pirate Links Every Second
Posted in Online on 7th Oct, 2013
by Alex Muller
Groups like the RIAA are putting in millions of DMCA requests to pull pirate links off Google, and even though it does not seem to help, the landslide is not letting up.
China Employs Two Million Microblog Monitors
Posted in Online on 5th Oct, 2013
by Alex Muller
More than two million people in China are employed by the government to monitor web activity: A glimpse into how the state tries to control the internet.
The NSA Is Graphing The Social Network Connections Of Americans
Posted in Online on 30th Sep, 2013
by Alex Muller
Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans social connections.
Google Announces New Knowledge Graph Features
Posted in Online on 28th Sep, 2013
by Alex Muller
Google announced new Knowledge Graph features Thursday in celebration of its fifteenth birthday.