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Facebook Starts Displaying Ads In The News Feed

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An anonymous reader writes "As expected, Facebook has started displaying ads in users' News Feeds. You may not be seeing them yet as the company is rolling them out gradually, like it does for all its changes.

These new ads are marked as "Featured," which could be confusing given that Facebook has always used the word "Sponsored" for its ads. Currently, Facebook uses the verb "feature" for making content on a user’s Timeline bigger and more prominent.

Last month, a Facebook spokesperson said the company hoped to "show people no more than one Sponsored Story in their News Feeds per day." This is no longer the case, as Facebook now says you may see more Featured stories "if you visit your News Feed a lot.""
Education

UK School's ICT to be replaced by computer science->

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peetm
peetm writes "It seems that the UK government has at last come to its senses and has announced the scraping of (a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology">ICT in schools — which in the UK means playing about with Word and Excel etc. By the way, that came as a shock to most students – they thought ICT meant using Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, sadly, when they became enlightened they also switched off. But who can blame them really – one or two years of Powerpoint, Word, Excel! Yuck. So anyway, it’s being scrapped – and about time too – and is to be replaced with computer science lessons (deliberate lowercase). However, what about those kids (and let’s face it – we’re talking about the majority) who won’t be able to cope with even lowercase cs? How to prepare them for the real world?"
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1TB SSD swiss army knife - coming to a store near ->

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gruenz
gruenz writes "While it is a press release — and it is expensive, I am yet to find a person who doesn't want one in 1TB version! ;-) Its available with between 64GB and 1TB of storage, and is capable of 220MB/s read speeds and write speeds up to 150MB/s. It has Victorinox's security software on board, which encrypts and backs up data, and also provides private browsing and safe syncing of bookmarks and passwords. Comes with USB and eSata."
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Microsoft

Windows 3.0 Launch

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peetm
peetm writes "I've just moved house and as everyone knows this involves re-discovering ‘weird stuff’ you forgot you had. One of the things I found was an old Sanyo Dictaphone loaded with a microcassette. Turns out it was a recording of the Windows 3.0 launch held at the City Center Theater on West 55th Street (New York) on May 22 1990.
The audio quality leaves a lot to be desired but the content is interesting and gives a flavour of the computing world just prior to the beginnings of the World Wide Web."

Comment: Not going to happen (Score 1) 554

by peetm (#35276224) Attached to: UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours

It's academic - any decision to change the clocks in the UK has to include a buy-in from the devolved Welsh and Scottish assemblies - both have a veto, and the Scottish will use theirs!

It seems that we have this particular Chestnut come up every year, and every year it's the same - it isn't going to happen (sadly!)

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