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Coca Cola mixes pop stars, crowdsourcing and Facebook to raise money for charities

Coca Cola is going to try something very innovative this weekend when they team up with the bandMaroon 5to engage with thousands of fans as they crowdsource a song for charity. At the event, the band will write and record a brand new song in just 24hrs, inviting fans from across the world to inspire them throughout the process. The event will take place on March 22 in London, and the epic session will be live streamed....

Code 404! Subsequent code 500 take-down! A geeky viral from Nosh

In mid-July,Firespotter Labs, a Google-backed team of developers and designers, co-founded by Craig Walker, the co-founder of Google Voice, releasedNosh, a mobile app for iPhone and Android that allows users to check in, rate, review and share menu items. Nosh is a yummy app, a baked list of recommendations that sits somewhere between Foursquare and Yelp and across from Foodspotting at the dinner table of social food apps. At launch, Nosh served up 150,000 menus, 475,000 restaurants and 10 million menu items....

Code Beautifier: the easy way to compress CSS

It’s important to compress your stylesheets before going live with a project, but it’s hard to find a good web-based option that doesn’t require you to install software or scripts on your computer. Code Beautifieris based onCSSTidy, an open source project which makes executable and PHP script solutions available to users. It doesn’t, however, feature the script for public use on the web, which is where Code Beautifier comes in....

Codecademy: Learning to code just became fun, easy and slightly addictive

Did you know that JavaScript, the dominant programming language of the Web, was developed in no more than 10 days by Brendan Eich during his time at Netscape? Ryan Bubinski, the co-founder of Codecademy says that before it matured into the de facto language of the web, JavaScript was commonly referred to as one of the worst languages ever written. He says that although Java and JavaScript share a common name, there is very little similarity between the languages....

Coded Bias director Shalini Kantayya: ‘Data rights are civil rights’

In 2015, MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini was developing a device called the Aspire Mirror. Onlookers would stare into a webcam and then see a reflection on their face of something that inspires them. At least, that was the plan. But Buolamwini quickly noticed that the facial recognition software was struggling to track her face — until she put on a white mask. Buolamwini began an investigation into algorithmic injustices that took her all the way to the US Congress....