China’s notorious puppy gang recruits members of all ages.
Price of admission? One puppy!
Quote of the Day: “When you step on the brakes, your life is in your foot’s hands.” – George Carlin
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Cyber Monday will remain biggest ecommerce day of the year
41% of US consumers planned to shop on Black Friday this year.
Holiday promotions by retailers are earlier and earlier every year. The buzz has moved progressively from “Cyber Monday” to Black Friday and finally to Thanksgiving Day itself, with reports of mass merchants beginning their sales in the middle of what is for many still an important family holiday.
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College credit eyed for massive open online courses
A pilot project will determine whether some free online courses are similar enough to traditional college courses that they should be eligible for credit.
While MOOC’s, massive open online courses, are still in their early days, the race has begun to integrate them into traditional colleges by making hem eligible for transfer credits, and by putting them to use in introductory and remedial courses.
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Americans are the worst tourists in the world: Survey
Tourists in Paris.
When we travel are we really the stereotype of the “ugly American”? LivingSocial and Mandala Research carried out a new survey that says we seem to be. And to make it worse it was mostly Americans ranking fellow Americans.
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Most popular music scenes in America
Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts performs.
Over the past twenty years the geography of popular music has changed considerably. The internet and social media have obviously played a large role. While industries like automobiles or steel still cluster around resources, cheap labor and transportation routes, or high-tech companies cluster around skilled labor and universities, the forever altered music industry now has fewer physical reasons to cluster — musicians no longer need to be near any particular resource to record and distribute their work anymore. And yet, they clearly still do cluster, just perhaps for slightly different reasons.
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Job ad looking for “lively and good-looking women” as condom testers pulled
A condom manufacturer was looking to hire “lively and good-looking women” aged 18 to 25 to work as condom testers.
In China a website has removed a job advertisement seeking women as condom testers in Shanghai after some people said it was a guise for prostitution.
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Dating survey has men in Shanghai seeing red
More men from Shanghai than those in other parts of the country want women to split the bill.
A recent survey in Shanghai polled around 44,000 eligible men and women in China found that some Shanghai guys out on their first date expect their women to split the bills!
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MasterCard launches new credit card with display and keypad
The new credit card features an embedded LCD display and touch-sensitive buttons for generating one-time passwords.
MasterCard’s new “Display Card,” is a credit card that basically combines the usual credit/debit or ATM card with an authentication token. The authentication portion features a touch-sensitive keypad and LCD display — hence the name “Display Card” — for reflecting a one-time password (OTP).
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Technology won’t kill a college education but it will transform it
University study time will look radically different than it does today.
Because of the economic pressures on higher education, somewhere this year a university hired its last tenured professor. And because of the technological pressures on higher education, next year a university will hire its last faculty member expected to teach in a classroom.
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Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice
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Microsoft has posted a video with a complementary explanation of language translation that goes far past what we thought was currently possible. The speaker explains and demonstrates improvements made to the machine understanding of his English words, which are automatically transcribed as he speaks. He then demonstrates having those words translated directly into Mandarin.
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Online viewers abandon video if it doesn’t play in 2 seconds: Study
Faster internet connections have made viewers more impatient.
Revenues are declining for the traditional forms of online advertising. Emerging as a bright spot for many media companies is the video. It offers an opportunity for long engagement and hefty ad rates — but also a challenge to make it work.
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Top 5 reasons Denver is a great place for startups
Denver, CO the Mile High City
It has always been undisputed that Silicon Valley has been the start-up capital of the world because it is overflowing with investors, mentors, and start-ups in every stage of development. But an affordable and laid-back alternative to Silicon Valley, the Mile-High City is building a vibrant start-up community.
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