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The search for AirAsia Flight QZ8501

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Indonesian searchers battling bad weather in their Efforts to find more remains from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 have so far recovered 10 bodies from the sea, officials said. A day after the first bits of debris from the commercial jet were spotted afloat off the coast of Borneo, the search operation was hampered Wednesday by big waves, strong winds and heavy rain. And answers about why the aircraft, with 162 people on board, fell from the sky Sunday remained elusive.

Google Expands Its Android One Initiative To Bangladesh, Nepal And Sri Lanka

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Back in June,  Google introduced its Android One program  to improve the affordable smartphone experience in emerging markets. The project debuted in India in September, and now it is  making its first expansion  expanding to cover neighboring Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. ( It launched in the UK  last month.)

The Enormous Implications Of Facebook Indexing 1 Trillion Of Our Posts

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A whole wing of the Internet just got added to our collective conscience, like websites by Google or knowledge by Wikipedia before it.

Designers Are Ditching The Mouse For The “Flow” 3D Motion Touch Controller

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Sliders suck. “Little too far to the left. Ugh. Little too far to the right. ARRHGH!!!” The mouse can be a frustrating controller for Photoshop, Final Cut, AutoCAD or even Spotify. But a new input device called  Flow  lets you play your computer like an instrument, with infinite dexterity through feeling rather than sight. The Y Combinator startup Senic’s  ~$100 wireless Flow puck  offers four types of control: motion by waving over its infrared sensor, a programmable touch-sensitive pad on top, haptic response for pushing Flow like a button, and a physical cylinder around the sides that you can twist for ultimate precision. It already works with 30 apps like some of the Adobe Creative Suite, and cunning developers can build custom Flow interfaces for anything they want.

India’s Government Asks ISPs To Block GitHub, Vimeo And 30 Other Websites

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China may be the ‘home’ of global internet censorship, as  recent issues accessing Gmail from the country proved , but India seems to be doing its best to rival its neighbor. Today it emerged that the Indian government has asked internet service providers and mobile operators to block access to 32 sites in the name of its censorship laws GitHub, Archive.org, Imgur, Vimeo, Daily Motion and Pastebin are some of the more familiar names included on the list, a key excerpt of which was made public by Pranesh Pakesh, a director at the  Centre for Internet and Society  in Bangalore.