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Buzzword Bingo: How Binded (Blockai) Says the Blockchain Will Protect Your Copyright, and Other Nonsense

23 July, 20164 June, 2018DeBunking, Intellectual Property, Wikipedia, Writing18 Comments

Bitcoin and other pseudo-currencies are a hot topic right now, and startups are coming up with all sorts of ways to take advantage of the buzz...

Wikipedia, TurnItIn Team Up on Copyright

3 November, 201512 May, 2017Intellectual Property, WikipediaLeave a comment

Turnitin has long used Wikipedia as a data source when scouring students' papers for plagiarism, and now it is returning the favor. eSchoolNews reports that TurnItIn and Wikipedia have collaborated on a...

Wikipedia Suspends 381 User Accounts for Suspected Fraud, Extortion

1 September, 20151 September, 2015WikipediaLeave a comment

Wikipedia's greatest strengths is that anyone can edit it. Conversely, the online encyclopedia's greatest weakness is that anyone can edit it. The Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of...

Wikipedia for iOS v4.1.0 Brings New Sharing Option, Improved Search

15 April, 20153 September, 2015e-Reading Software, WikipediaLeave a comment

Wikipedia announced a major update for its iPad and iPhone app today which adds a number of features and tweaks to the layout of the articles (including a couple...