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Fact, Fiction, and the New $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Mark Zuckerberg

Larry Klayman has sued Facebook and Zuckerberg for its failure to shut down the "Third Intifada" Facebook page sooner than it did. Who is this "one-man litigation explosion," and what does he represent? On Thursday, Larry Klayman, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, sued Facebook and Mark Zuckerber for $1 billion in damages.

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Wikipedia’s Librarian to the World

Photograph by Robyn Twomey Photograph by Robyn Twomey Wikipedia director Sue Gardner has transformed the site's broken business into a growing hub with global ambitions.

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Google’s Digital Library Failed–Can Academics Succeed?

Academic librarians, led by Harvard's, are positioning themselves as the successors to Google's scuttled vision for a massive digital library. But do they lack a coherent vision? Not long ago a federal judge in Manhattan scuttled Google 's plans to create a digital universal library (a dream kicked off when Larry Page scanned "The Google Book" years ago--his company has since scanned 15 million more).

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Being John Malkovich: Personal Control of Individual Brain Cells

In philosophy of mind, a “cerebroscope” is a fictitious device, a brain-computer interface in today’s language, which reads out the content of somebody’s brain. An autocerebroscope is a device applied to one’s own brain.

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Hillary Clinton’s Senior Tech Advisor Talks "Radical" Global Citizenship

Alec Ross on subversive technologies, Libya, Wikileaks, and the future of digital diplomacy."We're willing to make mistakes of commission," he tells Fast Company, "rather than omission." In the turbulent center of the Venn diagram involving President Obama's multilateral foreign policy, open government mandates, and Middle-East unrest is Alec Ross, the Senior

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Steps to Easy Relationship Building

Prospecting, Sales, Marketing – oh my! It can all feel quite overwhelming and frustrating at times, can’t it? Recently, I spoke with an acquaintance who has been in the job market for over a year. I noticed a pattern in John’s marketing of himself that I’ve seen in many business owners as well.

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Gary Player recalls the beauty of green jacket

Gary Player was already a major champion when he played the Masters in 1961. By the time the tournament ended, the South African had defeated Arnold Palmer and become the first international player to wear the green jacket

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Are the Oil Barons Panicking? Saudi Arabia to Spend $100 Billion on Renewable Energy

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, may not be panicking quite yet about its ever-declining oil supply--but the country is certainly concerned. Consider: in February, a Wikileaks document revealed that Saudi Arabia might be overstating its oil reserves by 300 billion barrels, and the country recently asked for a slice of the UN's $100 billion climate change fund to help diversify to other energy sources (a galling request from such a wealthy country so dependent on other people not diversifying to other energy sources). And now the kingdom has announced that it plans to spend $100 billion on solar, nuclear, and other renewable energy sources.

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