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The Top 10 Innovative Workplaces We Wanted To Work At In 2014. 'True Detective' confirms 3 more cast members. New York City Marathon's Oldest Female Finisher Dies. Joy Johnson, who at 86 was the oldest woman to complete Sunday’s New York City Marathon, died on Monday at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.
As the New York Daily News reports, Johnson fell and hit her head on pavement near the marathon's 20-mile mark. Medical personnel wanted to take her to the hospital, but she insisted on finishing the race, said her sister, Faith Anderson. Johnson finished in 7:57:41, her 25th New York City finish. Johnson, who was from San Jose, California, and Anderson joined a crowd outside at the “Today” show at Rockefeller Center on Monday morning. Johnson later complained of feeling tired. “We are saddened to hear about the passing of Joy Johnson, who finished her 25th New York City Marathon on Sunday," the New York Road Runners said in a statement. Johnson first became the New York City Marathon’s oldest woman finisher in 2011 (seen above), when she ran 7:44:45 at age 84.
Apple Reinvents Its Wheel With iOS 7, Takes Developers Along For The Ride. Today brings the release of the most dramatic iOS update that Apple has ever made.
More people will experience this change in a shorter period of time than at any point in computing history. “Measured by the number of people that are going to see a big change within the same 24-hour period,” says Evernote CEO Phil Libin, “I think iOS 7 is the biggest day in technology ever. There’s never been another day like this in the history of the universe where hundreds of millions of people will see a big change to something that they’re used to. Nothing of this scale has ever occurred.” To give context to that statement, remember that six years ago Windows dominated the platform landscape, with OS X owning around 5% of the market. Coca cola mini me 3d printing. A Breathing Earth: Watch the World's Seasonal "Heartbeat" from Outer Space. Each year we experience our normal seasons of hot and cold.
Winter brings snow to many of us, and in summer, often blazing hot temperatures and beach days. John Nelson has given us a new vision of this familiar cycle in the form of a simple GIF… but the result is mesmerizing for its profound demonstration of these cycles upon our lives and the world processes it clearly illustrates. Nelson, who is more often associated with extremely complex visualizations of weather patterns, used cloudless imagery from the NASA Visible Earth team. Facebook. Virgin Atlantic Launches World's First-Ever Glass-... - The Virgin Atlantic Blog. The Gangsternet. The idea for the Google Ideas-funded study was ingenious.
Three academics would speak with hundreds of American street gang members and conduct an empirical study of their Internet use. Do gang members here in the United States commit cyberfraud and electronic crime like their counterparts in Russia and Asia? Or do American gang members prefer to use Facebook and Twitter to keep tabs on competitors? It seems the answer is neither--American gangsters prefer to use the Internet to talk smack and self-promote. David Pyrooz, an assistant professor at Sam Houston State University, cowrote a study called Criminal and Routine Activities in Online Settings: Gangs, Offenders, and the Internet (paywall) along with Scott Decker of Arizona State University and Richard K.
Unlike street gangs in other countries, American gangs largely eschew networking through the Internet. Apple buys indoor mapping company WifiSLAM. Improving its maps offering has become increasingly important for Apple after previous efforts drew criticism.
Photograph: Beck Diefenbach/REUTERS Apple has bought WifiSLAM, a company providing indoor mobile location services, which lets people figure out their location inside a building using the strength of its Wi-Fi signals. Indoor mobile location is a burgeoning field as more and more people use their smartphones inside buildings - with at least two Finnish companies, Walkbase and IndoorAtlas, offering their own systems for zeroing in on where they are, and a map of their surroundings. Apple confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that it had bought the company, though it didn't comment on the estimated $20m price tag. The Science of Snoozing. 100 Websites To See Before You Die.
Research Tools. Top 10 Most Influential People on Facebook. Back in March 2012, prominent blogger and former CNN bureau chief Rebecca MacKinnon stated that she believed Facebook yielded as much power as a nation.
"Sovereignty and power are shifting," she told the New Scientist. "Before the internet, these notions were controlled by nation states. But companies like Facebook are the sovereigns of cyberspace. "Facebook exercises power by shaping the way you interact with the world. It makes decisions about what you can do and not do on its network. Though MacKinnon's comments could justifiably be called hyperbolic—nation states collect taxes, while Facebook does not— she does make a very salient point. We took MacKinnon's argument into consideration when making our list of 2012’s most influential Facebook users. Instead, we took a look back at what were the biggest Facebook stories of 2012 and the players involved. 1) George Takei Not only is Mr. 2) Barack Obama President Barack Obama had a banner year in 2012 and social media played a huge role.