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A Year in 12 Posts
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Politics, Science, Art, Web, Business: a curation of 2013 events (and 2012, and 2011)
Curated by
Marc Rougier
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Marc Rougier's insight:
[recording of one of the most famous speech of the 20th century, by Dr. Martin Luther King] USA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the march on Washington this August. This is about politics, democracy, History. Congratulations. This is also about brilliant rhetoric and true leadership. What does leadership means today? This has always been a hot topic on Scoop.it. Check out the Leadership interest. Also in August, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post for $250m. 
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Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Youtube, AOL, Facebook, Skype, Verizon, ...: the NSA is spying on US (and perhaps not only US) citizen with a data mining program called PRISM, revealed in June.
Edward Snowden gave this interview. Getting closer and closer to 1984, the dystopian novel by George Orwell. Blurred boundaries between democracy, freedom and security... How afraid are you? I'm impressed by the power of the program... I'm also very impressed by Snowden's position. Must watch.
Meanwhile, China reclaimed top spot in the TOP500 list (most powerful supercomputers). [geek alert] Tianhe-2: 33.86 petaflop/s, more than 3 million cores. 30 times more powerful than the most powerul supercompters from 5 years ago. That's lots of power for data mining...