Plus Douglas Adams on advertising, 'paper' currencies, Acer on Windows Phone, and moreA quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamRiver level data must be open >> Climate Code FoundationNick Barnes has seen his home flooded for the second time in a month: There are thousands of river monitoring stations across the UK, recording water levels every few minutes. The [Environment] Agency publishes the resulting data on its website, in pages like this. For each station it shows a graph of the level over the last 24 hours (actually, the 24 hours up to the last reported data: my local station stopped reporting three days ago, presumably overwhelmed by the water), and has some running text giving the current level in metres above a local datum. There's a small amount of station metadata, and that's all. No older data, and no tabular data. I can't:o See the levels over the course of a previous flood; ... and 11 other things that he would like to do if he could get access to the data directly without having to pay a licence fee - for data whose sale generates 1% of the EA's non-flood budget.Fact vs fiction: How true were the Samsung Galaxy S5 rumours? >> Pocket-lintNeat roundup by Chris Hall: Sometimes rumours are entirely false, sometimes they're genuine leaks. Sometimes they're very safe guesses. But how did the Samsung Galaxy S5 fare? How close were those rumours and "sources familiar with the matter"?What have we got to lose?... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Plus Douglas Adams on advertising, 'paper' currencies, Acer on Windows Phone, and moreA quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamRiver level data must be open >> Climate Code FoundationNick Barnes has seen his home flooded for the second time in a month:... Continue reading at The Guardian
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