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High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica

The Verge

Earlier this year, the NSF began seriously exploring the possibility of building a fiber optic cable that would travel along the seafloor from Antarctica to neighboring New Zealand or Australia. After that, NSF will decide whether to proceed with the project. That could soon change, however.

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Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium

TechCrunch

Left to right: Kelvin Adrah (intern), Hemali Rathnayake (co-founder), Sheeba Dawood (co-founder, CEO) and Zack Allen (intern). Before Minerva was officially founded, Dawood and Rathnayake took part in a National Science Foundation (NSF) program designed to help universities with entrepreneurship programs.

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PreciTaste lands cash for tech that checks restaurant orders for accuracy

TechCrunch

According to NSF International, a product testing and certification organization, more than half of quick-service restaurant (QSR) managers found staff turnover to be an issue for their business, with 20% saying that it had the biggest negative impact on operations within the past several months.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. I suspect this is a phenomenon similar to Eskimos (actually Inuit and Yupik) having multiple names for snow. It’s a really big part of our world.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

I see three significant internal reasons for homogenization in museums: As money gets tight, museums look for exhibits, program strategies, and revenue streams that are "proven" by other institutions' successes, rather than charting their own potentially risky path. But that's only part of the story.

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

Museum 2.0

For internal web managers, tagging also improves accessibility for people who are blind by adding text descriptors to images so that site visitors understand the content of those images. The ESP Game , and its related game, Phetch , are two games that create a framework to make tagging fun. Why would they want to do that?

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Navigating the Shifting Political Landscape as a Federal Grant Recipient

sgEngage

Similarly, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a directive that requires all grantees to pause any activities related to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) that do not fully comply with the new administration’s updated requirements.

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