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"In future, your bank will look less like your bank & more like Google or Facebook" Wired essay on future of banking. http://t.co/Q9Q9xLpOrg

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How technology is killing the Urdu Script and what tech companies can do about it. by @eteraz https://t.co/yJhPvSXJzl — Medium (@Medium) October 9, 2013 Medium

Stella Creasy. Photograph: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images 1. Think Stella Creasy, not Margaret Thatcher Creasy is the face of the future. One distinguishing feature of the new wave of politically active women is their informality, the dropping of a stiff public mask. Rowenna Davis, 28, is the prospective…

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Say hi to Lucy. Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She's also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y. I have a term for yuppies in the Gen Y age group -- I call them Gen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies, or GYPSYs. A…

Small businesses: stop hiding your people away https://t.co/3p3SnwFdQO

David Baddiel "Yes, David Cameron, 'Yid' really is a race-hate word. Here's why" http://t.co/B2DJXs6vgl

This is a terrific read from Andy Bull, on Scott Boswell, who bowled 'that' over. http://t.co/0sVeroek1s

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Love this on untranslatable words between languages, especially the Urdu word 'Goya'. https://t.co/2CBzLTOFjo

Gove's contribution to the effort to build a low-wage economy has been to increase the number of students with lower qualifications. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA M any of us have thought for some time that a man of your talents was making a mistake to confine himself too long to the unglamorous world…

Security expert hacks Philips Hue lightbulbs to show security is key in Internet of things http://t.co/uTKwaG6Zu4

England's Mike Gatting is bowled by Shane Warne's first ball during the first Test against Australia at Old Trafford. Photograph: Adrian Murrell/Allsport There shouldn't really be anything left to say about Warne's Ball, otherwise known as Shane Warne's opening delivery in Ashes cricket; or more…

'Isn't it worth fighting back in some small way?' Pianist James Rhodes. Photograph: Dave Brown 2012 A fter the inevitable "How many hours a day do you practice?" and "Show me your hands", the most common thing people say to me when they hear I'm a pianist is "I used to play the piano as a kid. I…

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Forget mobile first, this is touch first. Some great Responsive Web notes from @grigs http://t.co/TMD5y3rG (via @brad_frost)

Merged life can be frantic, messy, and short on sleep. Photograph: Beyond Fotomedia GmbH/Alamy H ow she explained the background drone of the hairdryers is anyone's guess, but the woman next to me at the hairdresser the other week was clearly not there to be pampered. Phone jammed to her ear, laptop…

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'The dominance of the supermarkets is explained away with reference to convenience and customer service.' Illustration: Andrzej Krauze F our years or so it was: from the aftermath of the crash to the arrival of the double-dip recession. Circa 2008-9, there was a mass pang of worry about increasing…

Protestors from the Move Your Money group stick up posters on the window of a branch of Barclays Bank in London Photograph: Olivia Harris/Reuters O ver the weekend I attended the London Community Credit Union 's (LCCU) open day in Hackney. Cake was eaten, finance was debated and new accounts were…

This week's column: the roots of our current crises, explained by #JohnClare. http://t.co/5EOS6EPW

Illustration by Matt Kenyon T his week the poverty tsar Frank Field lost faith in the coalition's commitment to reducing poverty and the recently departed health minister, Paul Burstow, cast public doubt on the government's intention to do anything to reform care for the elderly. "Caring…

Experimentation Is The New Planning http://t.co/lFM9nPd6 via @FastCompany

Xconomy: Of all the articles I’ve read about “big data” recently, one stands out as particularly enlightening... http://t.co/j8cEFnox

How we built MSN UK's responsive Olympics site http://t.co/n9PPSaNH #rwd

June6, 2012 Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. UPDATE: Marissa Mayer was named chief executive officer of Yahoo Inc. July 16, 2012. Many entrepreneurs don't even think twice when it comes to working around the clock. Marissa Mayer, Google's 20th employee and current vice…

New post: How Much Does a Responsive Web Design Cost? http://t.co/EwCOULRH #rwd