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22 November, 2014

How Facebook’s Programming Tools Are Remaking Wikipedia and Box. This creation is called HHVM. Basically, it’s a way of more efficiently running the PHP programming language, the language that helps drive all the stuff you do on Facebook each day

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/facebooks-programming-tools-remaking-wikipedia-baidu-box

Showing a rather shocking disregard for the long-term safety of human civilization, Microsoft has become one of the first companies to deploy autonomous robot security guards. Dubbed the K5, Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus was being policed last week by five of these roughly human-sized 300-pound (136 kg) robots

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/194338-here-come-the-autonomous-robot-security-guards-what-could-possibly-go-wrong

Algorithms Are Great and All, But They Can Also Ruin Lives

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/algorithms-great-can-also-ruin-lives/

Breakthrough in image-recognition software identifies objects in photographs

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/breakthrough-in-imagerecognition-software-identifies-objects-in-photographs-20141118-11p0n9.html

Professional coders step in to teach school kids to program the future. www.codefuture.org

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/professional-coders-step-in-to-teach-school-kids-to-program-the-future-20141121-11rbvd.html