autor: admin | Srp 31, 2014 | English News
Bookless libraries aren’t quite so far-fetched as they used to be. Florida Polytechnic University, opening for the first time this fall, features a $60 million, Santiago Calatrava-designed main building with a library that doesn’t hold a single paper book within its walls. Instead, the library has space for reading, desks for doing work, and a number of desktops, laptops, and tablets readily available. It joins a small handful of universities that have opened such libraries in recent years. Instead of books, the library has a deal with publishers that lets students access a title once for free. If any other student „takes out“ the ebook of that title, the library automatically purchases it for its collection.
Of course, print still has…
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autor: admin | Srp 31, 2014 | English News
As the Ferguson protests made exceedingly clear, citizen journalism is both a blessing and a curse; while it can expose police brutality and censorship, it’s also prone to misinformation. But how do you illustrate the complexity of the subject for…
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If Microsoft wants to save the Kinect, it should merge the Windows and Xbox One versions together — something that hackers already accomplished in …
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Microsoft Surface Pro … Microsoft Windows 9 is expected to be released … Microsoft Windows 9 is expected to be released by the end of September, …
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For this season of The Doctor, Ross and Kwame Opam will be sounding off on each episode in a series of emails we’ll be publishing on the site. Warning: spoilers ahead.
After a season premiere all about Peter Capaldi finding himself as the new Doctor, „Into the Dalek“ is his first true post-regeneration adventure. Or rather, it’s more of a parable: an outrageously weird story that serves to highlight a darker truth of the Doctor’s own soul. „The Doctor goes literally into his worst enemy to try and understand good and evil… and comes out learning about the good and evil in himself.“ It’s a great pitch for an episode that mostly pulls it off. Mostly.
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