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Cambridge 2024 |
Boston 2024, the private group organizing to bring the Olympics to the Boston metropolitan area in... |
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1/29/15 12:31am |
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Design Pearl Street for the Fu... |
The Cambridge City Council delves into street design tonight, considering a Policy Order sponsored... |
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1/26/15 10:49am |
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MIT Media Lab websites defaced... |
A hacker identified by the Twitter handle "@ulzr1z" defaced 15 subdomains of the MIT Media Lab in... |
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1/6/15 3:39pm |
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A Tale of Two Cambridges |
Side by side in the Boston Globe, the day after Christmas, 2014.
Read CambridgeHappenings, a... |
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12/29/14 1:20pm |
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City Council to Consider Polic... |
The Cambridge City Council will discuss, Monday, a Policy Order introduced by Councilor Leland... |
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12/14/14 2:42pm |
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Council Votes Not To Cooperate... |
The Cambridge City Council voted Monday evening not to cooperate with the process the seeks to... |
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12/9/14 6:25pm |
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City Council To Consider Withh... |
In a rare moment of candor, David D'Alessandro, the former John Hancock executive who brought mega-... |
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12/7/14 9:55pm |
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Protestors March Through Cambr... |
Marchers protesting the killings of unarmed African-Americans and the subsequent failure to indict... |
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12/6/14 1:48pm |
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[Updated] Five Reason Why Host... |
Since the original publication of this article:
The Cambridge City Council voted not to support a... |
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11/26/14 4:13pm |
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Is It Safe To Use Uber? |
When Uber, the livery company that promises to be everyone's private driver, introduced itself to... |
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11/21/14 12:09am |
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Microsoft General Counsel Call... |
Saying that "secret courts with secret decisions are incompatible with American traditions,"... |
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11/7/14 1:00pm |
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Snowden Explains His Rationale... |
Edward Snowden decided to provide classified National Security Administration (NSA) documents to... |
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10/26/14 5:04pm |
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Central Maine and Quebec Railw... |
John Giles is a railroad man. Starting out as a locomotive engineer and fireman in his early... |
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10/18/14 10:02pm |
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Does ShotSpotter Even Work? |
Cambridge is installing ShotSpotter, a federally-funded system of microphones intended to detect... |
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8/29/14 3:34pm |
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Cambridge Police Received 25 R... |
The Cambridge Police Department is enrolled in the Department of Defense's program to redistribute... |
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8/19/14 11:30am |
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City Council Dives into Water... |
The City Council last week passed a policy order requesting the City Manager look into the "the... |
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8/7/14 12:29am |
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7 Reasons Why Giving the City... |
The City Council Ordinance Committee considers today a zoning petition filed by its co-chair that... |
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7/30/14 4:07pm |
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NSA Surveillance Targets Cambr... |
The National Security Agency (NSA) targeted the Cambridge-based TOR Project as well as a server at... |
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7/8/14 3:30pm |
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Cambridge Had Two Gunfire Inci... |
Despite having only two confirmed gunfire incidents during all of 2013, the Cambridge Police... |
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7/1/14 10:39pm |
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#Hashtag Activism Comes to Cam... |
If, a number of years ago, you told people that social change might be accomplished by typing the... |
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6/18/14 5:01pm |
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City Launches Portal Providing... |
The City of Cambridge unveiled its Open Data Portal last week, reversing years of policy that made... |
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6/8/14 9:09pm |
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Caption testing |
Let's take a simple image:
and add a caption.
A bear
and a border and a background:
A... |
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5/28/14 2:16pm |
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Caption testing |
A test caption
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5/28/14 2:14pm |
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Preoccupied with Occupy |
The fall of 2011 should have been a busy one for regional counterterrorism officials. Having been... |
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5/27/14 1:47pm |
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City Forming Task Force to Exa... |
The City of Cambridge is forming a Task Force to examine broadband for the City, seeking to... |
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5/8/14 10:29pm |
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Fight Against Ethanol Trains T... |
An amendment to the proposed Commonwealth budget introduced by local legislators seeks to establish... |
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4/27/14 4:17pm |
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President's Counterterror... |
Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, came to Harvard... |
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4/24/14 8:44pm |
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Playing "Paying for Predi... |
The die landed on a six, meaning heavy local rain. Combined with the heavy upstream rain - a five... |
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4/14/14 12:05pm |
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When MIT Helped Search for the... |
The media are filled with reports that MIT technology might be used to help in the search for... |
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4/3/14 4:48pm |
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Snooping after Snowden: Survei... |
We accept unprecedented surveillance, Dr. David Lyon told an MIT audience, because routine... |
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3/14/14 12:53pm |
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Big Data: The New Extractive I... |
"The business model of the internet is surveillance." – Bruce Schneier
"Data and data analytics... |
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3/4/14 3:43pm |
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The Case for Municipal Broadba... |
In Cambridge, as in most of the United States, the free market has failed to provide broadband... |
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2/21/14 4:23pm |
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The City Maps Unshoveled Sidew... |
They've put me out of business.
Three winters ago, I got into the business of mapping unshoveled... |
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2/18/14 5:47pm |
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Report: MBTA Deploying "M... |
Despite a bus fleet that is overdue for replacement and a capital budget proposal that provides no... |
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2/12/14 5:10pm |
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Countersurveillance DiscoTech... |
At the countersurveillance DiscoTechs, we’ll focus on creating welcoming spaces where a wide range... |
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2/7/14 2:46pm |
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Where's Cambridge's... |
During the last three decades, the average income of a Cambridge resident has more than doubled... |
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1/11/14 10:35pm |
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The Persistence of Misinformat... |
It is one of the more persistent legends on the Internet, thoroughly debunked, internally... |
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12/31/13 2:41pm |
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Fighting the Survellance State |
Raise the cost of surveillance, Bruce Schneier told a packed crowd at Harvard today, and you'll... |
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12/18/13 4:21pm |
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We've Built A "Turnk... |
The United States government is a "vastly more potent threat to the traditions and civil liberties... |
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12/14/13 12:52pm |
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Dude, Where's My Bus Stop... |
Imagine you are newly arrived in Central Square, looking for the MBTA's most heavily used bus line... |
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12/4/13 2:04pm |
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10 Essex Street: A Cambridge P... |
On Monday, the Central Square Advisory Committee will meet at 5:30 PM to discuss a special permit... |
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12/1/13 5:45pm |
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When Big Data Breaks Bad |
MIT's Senseable City Lab held a wide ranging discussion in November seeking "a new way to... |
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11/29/13 12:17pm |
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SYFY Has the Stones to Drop Pl... |
After showering Los Angeles with sharks, the SYFY channel dropped Plymouth Rock on a Cambridge... |
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11/24/13 1:16pm |
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Five Ways Ballot Counting Coul... |
Election night at the Senior Center is a social event, bringing together Cambridge officials,... |
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11/6/13 4:27pm |
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How Many People Will Central S... |
In a robo-call to many Cambridge residents, City Council candidate Dennis Carlone compares possible... |
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11/3/13 4:37pm |
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Digital Media Conference Consi... |
John Henry, the former commodities trader and current Red Sox owner, took the pages of his latest... |
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10/29/13 10:32am |
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Science Hack Day Comes to Camb... |
Would you let people you just met put electrodes on your scalp and put current through your brain... |
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10/23/13 12:52pm |
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Science Hack Day |
Science Hack Day is a two-day event that brings together enthusiastic scientists, developers,... |
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10/17/13 10:49pm |
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Seven Things to Know About... |
Proponents of a "net-zero" energy use standard for new construction Cambridge went before the... |
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9/24/13 3:15pm |
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What Help Did Chelsea [Bradley... |
Chelsea Manning, the Army private convicted of leaking classified files to Wikileaks, was sentenced... |
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8/29/13 12:59pm |