Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: "How to Survive the Password Apocalypse
Until we figure out a better system for protecting our stuff online, here are four mistakes you should never make—and four moves that will make your accounts harder (but not impossible) to crack.—M.H."
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Thursday, November 08, 2012
Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work | Video on TED.com
Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work | Video on TED.com: "We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that actually happiness inspires productivity. (Filmed at TEDxBloomington.)
Shawn Achor is the CEO of Good Think Inc., where he researches and teaches about positive psychology."
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Shawn Achor is the CEO of Good Think Inc., where he researches and teaches about positive psychology."
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Breach Prevention is Dead. Long Live the 'Secure Breach' CIO.com
Breach Prevention is Dead. Long Live the 'Secure Breach' CIO.com: "Every defense paradigm has a finite life span and the IT industry's breach prevention paradigm, which is based on perimeter technology designed to keep the bad guys out, is completely out of step with today's threat landscape. It's time to move on to a new era: the "secure breach" era."
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
A New Model for Minimizing Cyber and IT Risk - Jason Sylva - HBR Events - Harvard Business Review
A New Model for Minimizing Cyber and IT Risk - Jason Sylva - HBR Events - Harvard Business Review: "In IT Risk: Turning Business Threats Into Competitive Advantage, George Westerman outlines a new model for integrated risk management that eliminates the silo approach. This new model ensures that an organization is not exposed to unnecessary cyber or IT risks and doesn't leave profit opportunities on the table. Using the new model will provide a competitive advantage for those that use it."
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Thursday, September 06, 2012
You Built What?!: A Fire-Breathing, Jet-Powered Dragon | Popular Science
You Built What?!: A Fire-Breathing, Jet-Powered Dragon | Popular Science: "Richard Hamel was watching the 2010 animated film How to Train Your Dragon with his grandchildren when he noticed something odd about the tails of the flying beasts. Hamel, a longtime radio-control plane builder, realized that those appendages resembled an unconventional aircraft design feature known as an inverted V-tail. In lieu of a vertical stabilizer and horizontal rudder, some aircraft rely on two fins arranged in a V shape. “I thought, ‘That would actually work,’” he recalls, "and I started wondering if I could make a dragon fly.”"
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
IBM Readies Watson for Your Pocket | CIO Today
IBM Readies Watson for Your Pocket | CIO Today: "Meyerson said that Watson 2.0 is in the works, being prepared to provide the back-end intelligence for smartphones and tablets. He told Bloomberg that the energy "it takes to make Watson work is dropping down like a stone," and he predicted that, "one day, you will have ready access to an incredible engine with a world knowledge base.""
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
A new RCT look at educational vouchers
A new RCT look at educational vouchers: "From Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson (pdf):
In the first study using a randomized experiment to measure the impact of school vouchers on college enrollment, we examine the college-going behavior through 2011 of students who participated in a voucher experiment as elementary school students in the late 1990s. We find no overall impacts on college enrollments but we do find large, statistically significant positive impacts on the college going of African American students who participated in the study. Our estimates indicate that using a voucher to attend private school increased the overall college enrollment rate among African Americans by 24 percent."
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In the first study using a randomized experiment to measure the impact of school vouchers on college enrollment, we examine the college-going behavior through 2011 of students who participated in a voucher experiment as elementary school students in the late 1990s. We find no overall impacts on college enrollments but we do find large, statistically significant positive impacts on the college going of African American students who participated in the study. Our estimates indicate that using a voucher to attend private school increased the overall college enrollment rate among African Americans by 24 percent."
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Monday, June 25, 2012
You Will Want Google Goggles - Technology Review
You Will Want Google Goggles - Technology Review
"One of the key points here," Starner says, "is that we're trying to make mobile systems that help the user pay more attention to the real world as opposed to retreating from it."
"One of the key points here," Starner says, "is that we're trying to make mobile systems that help the user pay more attention to the real world as opposed to retreating from it."
Saturday, June 02, 2012
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Opportunity Finance Network
Opportunity Finance Network
Opportunity Finance Network® (OFN) is the national network of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)—private financial institutions that are 100% dedicated to delivering responsible, affordable lending to help low-income, low-wealth, and other disadvantaged people and communities join the economic mainstream.
Opportunity Finance Network® (OFN) is the national network of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)—private financial institutions that are 100% dedicated to delivering responsible, affordable lending to help low-income, low-wealth, and other disadvantaged people and communities join the economic mainstream.
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