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Space Photos of the Week: Dying Star Insists on Being Dramatic About It
Space photos of the week, September 18 — 24, 2016. The post Space Photos of the Week: Dying Star Insists on Being Dramatic About It appeared first on WIRED.
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Heading Into The Political Season, We Need To Think Seriously About What Drives Innovation
A free enterprise system is merely a starting point. We can only truly win the future if we invest in it.
What Are The Biggest Misconceptions About Health And Wellness?
What are the biggest misconceptions about health and wellness? This question was originally answered on Quora by David Agus.
Why we should all be very worried about Twitter
We have 1.67 million followers on Twitter. But sometimes I miss the days when we only had a hundred thousand followers. Back when we had around a hundred thousand followers we would share a link and get 10,000 clicks, within minutes. We still get a fair amount of traffic, but the numbers are a lot lower. Follower numbers keep growing, but engagement keeps declining. Sometimes we even see more retweets than visitors, which means people retweet links to articles they themselves aren’t reading. This is not news. Lots of publishers, writers and marketeers or just users are seeing declining engagement on Twitter.…
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What you didn’t know about private cloud
‘Private cloud’ is a term people throw around a lot – but what is it exactly? We sit down with Forrester analyst Lauren Nelson to discuss what you need to build a private cloud and why this should be an important part of your IT strategy.
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Facebook Mentions now lets journalists monitor what’s being said about their stories
Facebook is expanding the capabilities of its Mentions app to now let journalists keep track of what people are saying about their articles — even if they’re not mentioned by name. To accomplish this, media professionals need to implement an author tag on their website that connects to their Facebook profile or page.
Available only to verified profiles, celebrities, and journalists, Facebook Mentions is the social networking company’s way to let these highly engaged and followed individuals better communicate with their fans. As journalists are churning out stories, being able to find out what people are saying about a particular breaking news-type story or feature that they wrote can be rewarding.
So for example, while internal metrics may show that my feature on Y Combinator had a large number of shares, that’s all it is: a number. If I want to examine the sentiment behind it, Facebook Mentions might be an opportune thing for me to look at. There are people who are sharing it without finding a need to tag me in their post — and why should they?
For publishers interested in trying this out, Facebook says an additional line of code in the header section of their webpage is needed. This will associate the author with their Facebook profile or page so the system will know when the journalist’s byline appears on the social network. Other capabilities are being planned to help enhance this feedback tracking capability within Mentions.
Facebook Mentions launched in July 2014.
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Let’s Talk About Mantis Shrimp Fight Club
The fearsome mantis shrimp has many fascinating attributes, most notably its powerful hammer-like rounded claws — technically known as “raptorial appendages” — that it uses to crack open the hard shells of its favored prey (clams and crabs) and to ward off predators. And now it seems they use them as weapons against each other, smacking rivals for prime territory on their tiny shrimp butts should they dare to trespass on an occupied burrow. Just call it Mantis Shrimp Fight Club.
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Director Nicholas Winding Refn Wants to Teach You About Movie Marketing
The director’s first foray into book publishing is a deep-dive into the art of exploitation cinema marketing.
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The iPhone 6s outperforms the 2015 MacBook in some tests, which says a lot about the iPad Pro
Although the iPhone’s ‘s’ models aren’t normally as hype-worthy as the full version upgrades, one thing you can always expect out of them is top notch performance. This year’s iPhone 6s, however, has the special honor of being as powerful as one of Apple’s newest laptops, the 2015 MacBook. John Gruber from Daring Fireball benchmarked the iPhone 6S using Geerkbench 3, a multi-platform testing tool designed to measure overall computer performance. Needless to say, the results are impressive. The phone’s A9 chip can outperform or beat the $ 1300 1.1 Ghz MacBook, and nearly go head to head with the 1.3Ghz model: Test iPhone 6s…
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