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Late last year, the free online gradebook LearnBoost announced its plans to crowdsource the translation of its Web app. The decision to crowdsource -- rather than rely on Google Translate, for example, or hire translators -- followed the process that Facebook undertook (and that other companies like Twitter have adopted...

The House Appropriations Committee has just released the draft of the bill that would fund the Departments of Labor, Education and Health and Human Services for the 2012 fiscal year. There's a lot to wade through, but tucked into a paragraph on page 37 is wording that appears to prevent...

Google's Ngram Viewer promised some interesting insights into a subset of the books that the company had digitized. The tool offered an interactive visualization of a dataset containing more than 500 billion words from some 5.2 million books. By querying the Ngram viewer, you can see how much word usage...

I can't think of anything that stirs up as much interest and fervor in the tech world as an Apple press event. There was one today in Cupertino, and like every other tech journalist out there, I wrote about what was touted and unveiled onstage. In my case, I looked...

Politics and Policies President Obama offered his "back-to-school" remarks this week at Benjamin Banneker High School in Washington DC. The President encouraged the students to be "the best student that you can be. Now, that doesn't always mean that you have to have a perfect score on every assignment. It...

With the end of the U.S. Space Shuttle program this summer, there's been a lot of talk about the future of manned space exploration. As the name shuttle would suggest, the Space Shuttle program was supposed to mark the beginning of space missions that were more regular and less expensive,...

At a press event in NYC today, Amazon officially unveiled what many have long been waiting for: its Android tablet. TheKindle Fire is the latest entry into the tablet market, which up until today has been so utterly dominated by Apple's iPad that it's hard to even call it a...

Digital Marginalia I still remember the very first class I took in which the teacher encouraged us to write in the margins of our books: Mrs. McKenzie's 9th grade English. We were reading The Odyssey and she asked us to underline all the classical allusions. "Underline?" we asked. "You mean...