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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. A proposed high-speed fiber line could connect McMurdo Station to New Zealand. That could soon change, however. National Science Foundation.

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New social media transparency bill would force Facebook to open up to researchers

The Verge

Named the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA), it would establish new rules compelling social media platforms to share data with “qualified researchers,” defined as university-affiliated researchers pursuing projects that have been approved by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Docugami’s new model for understanding documents cuts its teeth on NASA archives

TechCrunch

Contracts and briefs in legal work, leases and agreements in real estate, proposals and releases in marketing, medical charts, etc, etc. Because it turns out that running just about any business ends up producing a ton of documents. One of the best applications may be to the SBIR and other small business funding programs themselves.).

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Quickie Links: Surveys, Transcripts, and a Strange Bedfellow

Museum 2.0

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). What does that mean in simple terms?

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

Museum 2.0

The initial NSF proposal for ScratchR focused on creating networked opportunities for teams of kids who were already using Scratch and for whom a social component would add value to their education experiences.