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<Title>Wikipedia China Becomes Front Line for Views on Language and Culture</Title>
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<Summary>Even innocuous topics have become controversial for Wikipedia editors from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and compounding the issue are language differences.      </Summary>
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<Title>Now Facebook Can See Inside Your Heart, Too</Title>
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    <p>Facebook scientists figure out how to identify your romantic partner or best friend from among your connections.</p>
    <p>Each day brings fresh confirmation that giving away any information means you’re giving all of it away, thanks to algorithms that crunch your language use, purchasing habits, friend structure, and other bits of information.</p>
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<Summary>Facebook scientists figure out how to identify your romantic partner or best friend from among your connections.  Each day brings fresh confirmation that giving away any information means you’re...</Summary>
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<Title>Cover Feature: Engineering as a Service</Title>
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<Summary>Oracle Exadata delivers consolidation and database as a service in private clouds.</Summary>
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<Title>Our favorite tweets of the week: October 21, 2013 &#8211; October 27, 2013</Title>
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    <p>Ah yes the age old question, is bacon the one true miracle food?</p>
    <p>If you’ve opened an internet browser any time in the last decade you’re probably familiar with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_mania" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Bacon Mania</a>. (Apparently that’s the term for it now) </p>
    <p>So has it finally been proven? Is bacon the paragon of culinary genius as we’ve been lead to believe? </p>
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    <p><a href="http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/bacon-is-a-miracle-food/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">According to Wired Magazine  and TheFoodNetwork bacon fits the bill of the All-American Miracle Food</a>.  <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/25/240556687/does-bacon-really-make-everything-better-here-s-the-math" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">But some folk over at NPR seem to disagree.</a> </p>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="false" id="37537" important="false" status="posted" url="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/posts/37537">
<Title>Meeting this Wednesday!</Title>
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<Title>The E-Cigarette Industry, Waiting to Exhale</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">A maker of electronic cigarettes is aiming to bring smokers in from the cold. But it faces health concerns and the might of Big Tobacco, which wants in on the business, too.<br><div><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td>
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<Summary>A maker of electronic cigarettes is aiming to bring smokers in from the cold. But it faces health concerns and the might of Big Tobacco, which wants in on the business, too.      </Summary>
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<Title>Prototype: Rentals That Let You Fly the Coop</Title>
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<Summary>In the new “sharing economy,” you can take most anything for a spin before buying. Chicken-raising, for example.      </Summary>
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<Title>Bits Blog: Teenagers Prove Fickle When Choosing Social Networks</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Last year, reports consistently found that teens were not very interested in Twitter but were unhealthily addicted to Facebook. Now that seems to be flipping.<br><div><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td>
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<Summary>Last year, reports consistently found that teens were not very interested in Twitter but were unhealthily addicted to Facebook. Now that seems to be flipping.      </Summary>
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