Still
a worry. As Russia's oil income drops, will they give this up or
push harder?
Ukraine's
military says troops retake most of Donetsk airport from rebels
Ukrainian troops launched a "mass operation" overnight
retaking almost all the territory of Donetsk airport in eastern
Ukraine lost to separatists in recent weeks, military spokesman
Andriy Lysenko said on Sunday.
… With attempts to restart peace talks stalled, pro-Russian
rebels have stepped up attacks in the past week, seizing from
government troops parts of the airport, which is of strategic value
to both sides.
Is
this the new “Chicken in every pot?”
Gov.
Cuomo Pledges 'Broadband Access For Every New Yorker'
Within the next four years, every New York resident will have access
to high-speed Internet, or so that's the promise of Governor Andrew
M. Cuomo
…
To qualify for the funding, ISPs must commit to a 1:1 financial
match, which in turn will push the program above the $1 billion mark.
They must also provide Internet speeds of at least 100Mbps --
Cuomo's administration will prioritize ISPs that deliver the highest
speeds at the lowest cost -- though in some limited cases, providers
may offer 25Mbps speeds to extremely remote unserved and underserved
areas of the state as long as it's scalable to 100Mbps or more.
Perspective.
Access to everything, at any time, cheap.
The
End of Ownership: Netflix, Spotify, and The Streaming Generation
…
When you own a book, what do you actually own? You don’t own the
contents; you don’t own the words written inside. The text itself
is generally protected by copyright, and is owned by the creator or
publisher. You just own
the physical object – the pages that hold the tale, not
the tale itself.
What
about digital files? Well the situation is the same. You probably
own the device you’re reading the ebook on, but you
don’t own the content you’re reading. Without the
constraints of a physical book, publishers
need some way of transferring the information to you without
transferring ownership of the file. The way they do that
is with a licensing agreement.
…
And if owning something tangible has no appeal, why would owning a
nebulous license for a digital copy?
This
is why services like Spotify, Netflix and Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited
are so great. We get almost all the benefits of piracy — instant
access to all the content you could want — without the downsides,
all for a reasonable monthly fee. What’s not to love?
Rather
than purchasing a one-off license for a single piece of digital
content, you subscribe on an ongoing basis to a license that gives
you access to a far larger collection of media than you could ever,
even in a lifetime, amass on your own.
…
Streaming services are getting bigger and bigger. Spotify just
passed 60
million users and shows no sign of stopping. Netflix accounts
for 35% of US Internet traffic. These services aren’t going
away.
…
What it means to “own” a piece of intellectual property has
always been a bit nebulous – with digital files, it’s even more
so. What we think of as ownership really ended with the rise of
services like iTunes and the Kindle Store, which explicitly sell
licenses. But now it’s truly dead.
Piracy
has bred a generation that expect instant digital access to content.
We don’t care about having CDs, books or DVDs lying on a shelf –
let alone digital files sitting on a hard drive. We
don’t want to own a movie, we just want to watch it.
Perspective.
I don't look forward to this generation running the world...
One
Direction's tweet now more popular than Obama post
A
tweet from One Direction's Louis Tomlinson to Harry Styles has become
the second most retweeted post of all time.
It's
now been shared more than 750,000 times.
…
Both still have a long way to go to beat the famous Oscar selfie
posted by Ellen DeGeneres. So far that has been retweeted more than
three million times.
One
of my students was showing this free App to me yesterday. He used it
to translate the textbook into Spanish on the fly (scrolling with
video rather than one static picture at a time). Very impressive.
Pardon?
Testing Google's speedy translation tool
Google
has announced a significant upgrade to its Translate app. The search
giant says it can now, almost instantaneously, interpret and
translate between seven languages.
Google
says the app can even translate text - such as on a menu or road sign
- without the need for a data connection.
Microsoft
recently released its own translation tool for Skype which allows for
conversations between people speaking different languages to happen
in almost real-time.
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