On January 15, 2001, a website called Wikipedia was launched. Since then, the crowd-sourced, online encyclopedia has completely changed how people find information quickly, replacing books and CDs (remember Encarta?) with millions of entries written by ordinary people.
How much has Wikipedia grown in the last decade and a half? Here are some numbers.
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Speaking in the nation’s capital on Tuesday morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that “2015 has been a tough year” for cyber security — something he hopes to change by opening a Cyber Defense Operations Center.
At the Microsoft Government Cloud Forum in Washington, D.C., Nadella laid out some alarming statistics, including the fact that 160 million customer records have been compromised so far in 2015, and that it takes an average of 229 days to detect a hack.
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]]>“We can think of Kepler-452b as an older, bigger cousin to Earth, providing an opportunity to understand and reflect upon Earth’s evolving environment,” said Jon Jenkins, the Kepler data analysis lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
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]]>“We urge you to reject any proposal that U.S. companies deliberately weaken the security of their products,” the letter said. It was signed by nearly 50 tech companies, including Apple, Facebook and Google.
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]]>The Archdiocese of San Francisco is partnering with Evergive, a service that starting on Friday will let Bay Area Catholics donate money, share prayers and more from their computers or smartphones.
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]]>Yes, Harry Potter is (almost) the same age as the World Wide Web, which turns 25 years old on March 12. (Radcliffe turns 25 in July). Before Berners-Lee and the release of Mosaic, the first popular Web browser, the Internet was a very different place.
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]]>In a movement called “The Day We Fight Back,” thousands of websites will host a banner urging people to call Congress in opposition to the FISA Improvements Act, which was approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee and its chairman, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.). The ACLU called the act “a dream come true for the NSA” that would “codify the NSA’s unconstitutional call-records program and allow bulk collection of location data from mobile phone users.”
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]]>A week after Jorge Mario Bergoglio was declared pope in a puff of white smoke in March, he sent out his first tweet as Pope Francis, which was retweeted 36,457 times. His account, @Pontifex, now has more than 3.5 million followers.
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