news.bbc.co.uk : Do we have to learn to live with slums?
The rich elite in cities across the world want to clear the slums which are now home to a billion people. But many of those who live in shanty towns do not want to leave.
Newsnight's Paul Mason travelled to the slums which line the San Miguel canal in the Philippines capital Manila to find out why.
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Slooh Space Camera : today's lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes behind the earth so that the earth blocks the sun's rays from striking the moon.
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Hackers And Clouds: How Secure Is The Web?
by NPR STAFF
Protecting The Cloud
Another tech company hackers were watching closely this week was Apple. CEO Steve Jobs announced the iCloud, a new service that will allow Apple users to store all their email, photos, music and documents on an array of servers.
"By centralizing their data, they've really painted a target on their back," says David Brumley, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He says Apple's iCloud is a bank of servers in a building the size of two football fields in North Carolina.
"From the reports, they have barbed wire around the building, they have guards and you're going to need an ID to get into those buildings," he says. "So the physical security is actually pretty good. It would be a lot like getting onto a military installation to actually get into Apple's iCloud data center."
Though it may be tough to break into the server's headquarters, Mitnick (mitnicksecurity.com) says, breaking in online could be another story.
"I was hired to test this cloud infrastructure in South America. Literally in the 15 minutes that I was on the phone with the CEO of the company and one of the lead technical guys, I was able to get access that only system administrators should get access to," he says.
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In The 'Net Delusion,' Internet Serves Oppressors - The Net Delusion: The Dark Side Of Internet Freedom. By Evgeny Morozov (Hardcover, 432 pages)
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Facebook growth slows for second month in a row. User numbers fall in US, UK, Canada, Norway and Russia – although total is still climbing towards 700 million.
"In the US the site lost about 6 million users, from 155.2 million at the start of May to 149.4 million at its end, according to data gathered from Facebook's advertising tool by the site Inside Facebook.
Canada fell by 1.52 million to 16.6 million and the UK, Norway and Russia all saw falls of more than 100,000 users, the site said.
The slowing growth in user numbers may indicate that Facebook has hit the limits of expansion in the countries where it was first successful – and perhaps even that some early adopters from those countries have stopped using it. (...)"
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Simple and brilliant.
Asking random New Yorkers with headphones on what song they are listening to. A project by Tyler Cullen.
Clones, other locations (NOT by Tyler Cullen) : London (by SuperUnclebulgaria) · London (by Maasive) · Edinburgh · Paris · Lisbon · San Francisco · Denver · Philadelphia · Munich · Singapore · São Paulo · Spain (City?) · Copenhagen · Stockholm · Melbourne · Vienna · Zagreb · Zürich
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DOMINO RADIO IS LIVE! — We are now broadcasting live on this site and 87.7FM in London - listen away, and you can flick through our full schedule while you do so.
If you like your radio to be unpredictable, eclectic, entertaining and intelligent, then prepare to fall head over heels.
The London Ear — The London Ear began life as a newspaper column in the Independent on Sunday in 2003. It’s initial objective was straightforward - to act as a counter-balance to the anti-London bias which was so distressingly prevalent in the national UK media at that time. But on moving to Resonance 104.4 FM in 2004, a more ambitious series of goals began to take shape. Might it be possible to combine Studs Terkel’s unimpeachable musical taste, Howard Stern’s instinctive grasp of oral history, Desert Island Discs' in-depth psychological profiles and the technical infallibility of John Peel? Only you, the listener, can judge the extent to which this dream has been realised.
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Skype sign-in problems knock millions offline | E-Mail & Internet | Macworld http://bit.ly/jQIHJQ
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Die indische Illusion von Carlos Widmann - Cicero - Magazin für politische Kultur - about 23 hours ago via Twitter
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