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UC Battles With Publishing Giant Over Free Access to Research

The University of California is trying to negotiate free public access to scientific research conducted by its publicly funded schools. UC, which publishes about 10 percent of the country's science st... read more

Fear and loathing defending ICS security at the Department of Energy's CyberForce Competition

The six of us hunched over our laptops in the competition space at Berkeley Lab, perched cliffside just east of the UC Berkeley campus ... We sat down at our battle stations—two giant big screens prop... read more

Think Online Hate From Your Enemies Is Bad? Try Getting It From Your Friends

In the midst of a pile-on, Navratilova deleted her tweet and apologized, but in the days that followed, stories accusing Navratilova of bigotry and transphobia were all over the queer press ... I crit... read more

The way SoftBank invests in startups just doesn’t work, says Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois

Keith, one of the things I do like about you, we don’t agree on a lot of things, and we definitely argue over it on Twitter ... I think if you can publish a book in the United States, then you should ... read more

Blockchain arrives on college campuses

Ikhlaq Sidhu, founding director and chief scientist of UC ... publish research papers and develop curricula, but creating a textbook will be harder: “By the time the textbook is written, the technolog... read more

Open Access: Progress, Possibilities, and the Changing Scholarly Communications Ecosystem

But even with policies springing up all over the ... making research both free to access and free to use, adapt, reuse, or build upon. This second component of the standard definitions of OA is not fu... read more

Aaron Swartz, Tech Prodigy and Internet Activist, Is Dead at 26

Reddit was sold to publishing giant Condé Nast in 2006. He later founded the group Demand Progress, which would play a key role in the epic 2011–12 battle between Internet activists and the entertainm... read more

Game On: I Came, I Saw, I Conquered

Finally, this article is free ... 1 REIT Research site on Seeking Alpha. We publish exclusive research content on over 100 REITs, and we recently launched a weekly subscriber call (every Fridy at 2:00 ... read more

Kenya: Mother's Mission to Stop Paediatric Aids

But, despite the efforts, the battle to end paediatric Aids is far from over ... giant that is paediatric Aids. "We are at a tipping point -- we must seize this opportunity, or else risk losing all th... read more

Universities launch elephantine 78 terabyte digital library

Google has famously gotten itself into massive legal battles with the publishing industry over Google Book Search, though the issue may be coming to a conclusion. The search giant scans (and ... provi... read more

Metasearch Tech Is Turning Skyscanner Into a Branded Airline Storefront

Lots of companies publish ... and access to fuller, more dynamic air content, independent of the traditional global distribution system (GDS).” Why would Skyscanner bother to involve itself in a long- ... read more