Posts Tagged ‘ library ’

Giffords receives Profile in Courage award

May 6, 2013
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Giffords receives Profile in Courage award

Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, left, listens as her husband Capt. Mark Kelly speaks after Giffords received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at the JFK Library in Boston, Sunday, May 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, left, listens as her husband Capt. Mark Kelly speaks after Giffords received the…

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Source: JFK’s daughter vetted for post

April 1, 2013
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Source: JFK’s daughter vetted for post

SHARE THIS Print Email More sharing RedditStumbleUponDelicious Source: Caroline Kennedy vetted for Japanese ambassador postBy Jessica Yellin, CNN Chief White House CorrespondentApril 1, 2013 -- Updated 1359 GMT (2159 HKT)STORY HIGHLIGHTSThe daughter of JFK provided key support to President Obama in his 2008 campaign She is the best-known living member of one of America's most…

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Google taps Knowledge Graph and facial recognition to build its own X-Ray for Play Movies

March 27, 2013
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Google taps Knowledge Graph and facial recognition to build its own X-Ray for Play Movies

Google is testing a slick new feature for its Google Play Movies & TV app on Android tablets that automaticallys pull up info cards about on-screen actors and in-movie music. The feature is currently US-only and limited to tablets running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but Google says it hopes to expand info cards to “more…

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(Web) Sandcastles Made Of Sand

March 23, 2013
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If there is one sliver lining in the Google Reader shutdown that has enraged the blogosphere (OK fine, the tech blogosphere), it’s the fact that Google offers a way for Reader users to export their RSS subscriptions using its Google Takeout service. Actually, Google Takeout lets users of most major Google services remove their data…

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Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize

March 17, 2013
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Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize

This publicity photo provided courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, shows Japanese architect Toyo Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world. He has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Sunday, March 17, 2013. Ito, the sixth Japanese architect to…

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Marvel’s on-demand subscription service lands on iOS, but falls short due to a dated back catalog

March 7, 2013
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Marvel’s on-demand subscription service lands on iOS, but falls short due to a dated back catalog

Marvel has launched a new iOS app today called Marvel Unlimited, giving comic book enthusiasts unlimited access to a broad range of titles via its existing online subscription service. The app is an extension of Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, an on-demand, subscription-based service similar to what Netflix is for movies or Rdio for music. Once…

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JAMES BOND – Agententreffen bei ON DEMAND DEUTSCHLAND

March 6, 2013
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JAMES BOND – Agententreffen bei ON DEMAND DEUTSCHLAND

06.03.2013 | 12:00 JAMES BOND - Agententreffen bei ON DEMAND DEUTSCHLAND Mnchen (ots) - SKYFALL und alle weiteren BOND-Agententhriller auf Abruf verfgbar OnDemand Deutschland GmbH & Co KG hat die Rechte am aktuellen James Bond Streifen "SKYFALL" und der gesamten BOND Agentenreihe erworben. Erstmalig, seitdem James Bond im Dienste Ihrer Majestt steht, gibt es smtliche…

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Atego Launches Atego Process Director for DO-178

March 21, 2012
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San Diego, California And Cheltenham, England (ots/PRNewswire) - DO-178 process templates jump-start certified airborne software projects, enhancing process definition, deployment, management and refinement. Atego Process Director's DO-178 Process Library Atego(TM), the world leading software tools and professional services supplier for complex, mission- and safety-critical systems and software engineering has launched the DO-178 Process Library for…

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Jolicloud Me launches in beta to help you make sense of your ‘personal cloud’

March 19, 2012
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Jolicloud, best known for its lightweight, cloud-focused operating system, has today launched Jolicloud Me, a service designed to pull together all the content you have stored around the Web. Built on the premise that it’s hard to keep track of all the content we store on the wide range of cloud-based services there out there.…

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Your life in film: Letterboxd, a social network for movie buffs

March 16, 2012
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If you like nothing better than hitting the local picture house on a Saturday night, or spending your evenings glued to Netflix, LoveFilm or whatever video-on-demand (VoD) platform takes your fancy, this new website could be right up your alley. Letterboxd is the latest social network out of the starting blocks, and this one deals…

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