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I was a human being. I was a doctor. I was doing my duty as a professional. What we did is our duty as doctors, human beings, mothers. If I knew this would sentence me to life… I would still do it, again and again and again.

Fatima Haji, one of four Bahraini doctors who were recently handed down 15 year sentences for treating anti-government protesters earlier this year. (via niggaofthecentury)

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eatsleepdraw:

mural I did in front of my bathroom

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eatsleepdraw:

Live or Die!

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Social media appears to amplify mass media rather than challenge its dominance.

from @tomforemski

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Cisco announces the laying off of 6,500 employees. This runs counter to prevailing trend in Silicon Valley where job growth is expected to be about 15% over the next two years.

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The battle between Android and Apple is really heating up, as Android plans to join the tablet market with guns blazing, and Apple gains small victories in their patent lawsuit against the company.

According to CNN Tech, Sony Electronics is planning to introduce their own tablet that runs on Android software.  The company is looking at this opportunity optimistically, despite the fact that the number of tablet apps is low and surveys show that iPads are the preferable tablet.  However, with the rampant success of their smartphones, consumers could quickly latch onto their services.

But all of this progress for the Android could be obliterated with recent legal proceedings.  According to MobileBeat, if Apple wins the lawsuit against HTC Android phones, they could completely removed from the market for good.  There is the alternative of having them pay Apple a fee for using their patented services, but that would be a huge hit to their revenue.  Either way, things don’t look great for the Android if Apple wins its case.  

I agree with the article that the competition between the two is a good thing, and that the constant effort to stay innovative and interesting keeps it exciting and not so stagnant.  It forces technology to move forward and for all services to be improved.

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Gears made of paper

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Ireland’s first ever 18-hour Open Data Challenge is being held at the National Digital Research Centre in Dublin this July 4th and 5th. During this free event, which is open to the public, participants will work in groups to try and develop creative and useful business ideas based around open data. The Open Data Challenge is being organised by the NDRC’s Inventorium programme in partnership with Dublin City Council, Finglas Council, the Irish Internet Association, and Microsoft.

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Ireland’s first ever 18-hour Open Data Challenge is being held at the National Digital Research Centre in Dublin this July 4th and 5th. During this free event, which is open to the public, participants will work in groups to try and develop creative and useful business ideas based around open data. The Open Data Challenge is being organised by the NDRC’s Inventorium programme in partnership with Dublin City Council, Finglas Council, the Irish Internet Association, and Microsoft.

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Sindice is a semantic web index, which allows you to access and leverage the “web of data”, which is the rapidly expanding number of websites which are semantically marked up, that is tagged with RDF, RDFa, Microformats or Microdata, tags which can be used to identify online content as belonging to different categories.

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HeyStaks is a social search engine, which aims to allow users to use their social graph to make their Internet searches more accurate and more relevant. The Dublin-based startup was founded by Peter Briggs and Maurice Coyle, who completed a PhD together, and Professor Barry Smyth, who was their PhD supervisor in University College Dublin

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Google has just announced that accessories will be available for their android@home system by the end of the year.

The idea is to be able to control the devices in your home from your Android smartphone.

Lighting, dishwashers, heater timers and so on can be controlled and monitored from wherever you happen to be.

Not only can you will you be able to unify all your remote controls into one device, you will also, with the addition of RFID embedding in household items, be able to detect what things are where in your house. Possibly making a search for the car keys a thing of the past

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Wilbour Craddock, Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, has one of the coolest jobs in the world.

We met him in the breakout room at the Dublin Web Summit Series where he was demonstrating the Microsoft interactive technology.

A full DJ mixing deck is back projected on to a piece of glass that has a special film over it. This film allows for the screen to be touched in six places at the same time to control the software that drives the music.

This technology can also be used for picture viewing and any other purpose that requires multiple inputs and interactions to take place at the same time.

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Bitcoin is a digital, open-source, decentralized, peer to peer “cryptocurrency” created in 2009 by programmer Satoshi Nakamoto. Rather than being governed and regulated by a central bank, bitcoin is regulated by an algorithm created by Nakamoto, which limits its production so that only twenty-one million bitcoins (BTC) can ever be produced.