2014年10月4日 星期六

2014-10-05 U.K. Spotlight

  BBC News   
Parody copyright laws set to come into effect  BBC News
Changes to UK legislation are to come into force later this week allowing the parody of copyright works. Under current rules, there has been a risk of being sued for breach of copyright if clips of films, TV shows or songs were used without consent. But the new ...


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Obama needs a gangsta to lay down the law  Financial Times
arack Obama's second term has been tough going for his supporters. Many had hoped that once he was re-elected, the US president would become more like that intriguing character he played on the campaign trail. The expectation began creeping into ...


   

  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
Labour is still toast, but not because of one YouGov poll  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Don't say I didn't warn you. Labour's impregnable poll lead has vanished. “Tories seize poll lead after £7 billion tax cut promises” splashes the Times, as it publishes the findings of the latest YouGov poll which reveals that David Cameron's barnstorming ...


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Flight MH370: New search images reveal seabed details  BBC News
The team looking for missing flight MH370 has released detailed images of the seabed - revealing features such as extinct volcanoes and 1,400-metre depressions for the first time. The collection of data from one of the most secret parts of the world is a ...


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Panda 4.1 -- Google's 27th Panda Update -- Is Rolling Out  Search Engine Land
Google has announced that the latest version of its Panda Update — a filter designed to penalize “thin” or poor content from ranking well — has been released. Google said in a post on Google+ that a “slow rollout” began earlier this week and will continue ...


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hidden cost of freezing Russia out  Financial Times
his week, a milestone was passed on the road of globalisation. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication – the banking utility better known as “Swift” – said it had processed a record number (some 26m) of daily transactions.

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  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
Memorable poetry gives you that tell-tale tingle  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
A cat in a hat (but you already knew that). Poetry is easier to remember if it has strong rhythms and it stirs the emotions. Photo: Rex Features. From the Sunday Telegraph. I stumbled on to something interesting reading Philip Larkin's letters. In 1972, when he ...


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Facebook admits failings over emotion manipulation study  BBC News
Facebook said it will change the way it does research, but stopped short of apologising for a controversial experiment it conducted this year. In June, the site was criticised for manipulating the news feeds of nearly 700,000 users without their consent.

   


The fatal flaw in the west's fight against Isis  Financial Times
Preventing the collapse of Iraq was one thing. Waging an open-ended war is quite another. ©Ingram Pinn. I. stanbul has lost none of its magical energy. Turkey, though, has mislaid its geopolitical compass. Not so long ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ...


   


Snowflake-shaped networks are easiest to mend  New Scientist
Networks shaped like delicate snowflakes are the ones that are easiest to fix when disaster strikes. Power grids, the internet and other networks often mitigate the effects of damage using redundancy: they build in multiple routes between nodes so that if one ...


   

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