University Study Finds Adblock Plus Could Save 40 Percent Network Bandwidth

[if lt IE 9]> < ![endif] University Study Finds Adblock Plus Could Save 40 Percent Network Bandwidth ‘);}googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(“div-gpt-ad-MOBILE_BANNER-1”);});document.write(‘ ‘);} Vanquishing pesky pop-ups and vacuous videos reduces IP traffic in test enterprise network environment A Canadian university study has found that using the Adblock Plus browser extension can save between 25 and 40 percent network bandwidth...

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I Would Like to Buy a Drink for the Poor Soul Who Ran the San Francisco BART Twitter Account Last Night

Last night, the person in charge of the official San Francisco BART Twitter account lost it. In 57 tweets, the account espoused truth and honesty, and pretty much admitted what everyone in the Bay Area already knows: the crumbling institution kinda sucks. Now, running social media accounts for well-known public entities, be they people, organizations,…

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The Nefertiti 3D Scan Heist Is A Hoax | Cosmo Wenman

Update March 15, 2016: After this investigation was reported by multiple news outlets, including Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Science, Instapundit, The Daily Dot, Kotaku, Digital Trends, Fusion,  Gizmodo, Hyperallergic, Mentalfloss, BoingBoing, and ARTFIXdaily, on March 10, 2016 The New York Times published a follow-up story: Nefertiti 3-D Scanning Project in Germany Raises Doubts. -CW The New York Times’ March 1, 2016 story “Swiping…

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The problem with a technology revolution designed primarily for men – Quartz

In a study published online March 14 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers looked at four widely-used tech assistants to try and find out how the increasingly ubiquitous tools responded to various health crises. Apple’s Siri, Google Now, Samsung’s S Voice, and Microsoft Cortana were evaluated on how well they recognized a…

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Moneyball for Book Publishers: A Detailed Look at How We Read – The New York Times

Continue reading the main story Generated by ai2html v0.52 – 2016-03-14 – 17:26 ai file: readingdata preview: 2016-03-11-readingdata scoop : reader-data Artboard: 300 The percentage of readers who finished reading each chapter of three specific e-books. How people read a successful U.S. novel … 62 percent of readers finish the book. Front pages including a…

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