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Data Mining Is New Lobbying Gold
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Data Mining Is New Lobbying Gold

A congressman gets an earful from his neighbor after church about a tax bill. A senator suddenly finds old high school classmates calling her about an upcoming...

Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm
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Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm

A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...

Smartthings Aims to Deliver the Internet-Connected Home
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Smartthings Aims to Deliver the Internet-Connected Home

In the elusive dream of the automated home, visitors ring a doorbell, and it buzzes the homeowner's mobile phone. Lawn sprinklers take rainy days off. At bedtime...

3d Software Key to Designing Many of Today's Consumer Products
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3d Software Key to Designing Many of Today's Consumer Products

While developing an electric bicycle for his San Rafael company, Marcus Hays had planned to insert a battery into one of the bike's supporting tubes. But then he...

At Facebook, Zero-Day Exploits, Backdoor Code Bring War Games Drill to Life
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At Facebook, Zero-Day Exploits, Backdoor Code Bring War Games Drill to Life

Early on Halloween morning, members of Facebook's Computer Emergency Response Team received an urgent email from an FBI special agent who regularly briefs them...

Will We Ever Simulate the Human Brain?
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Will We Ever Simulate the Human Brain?

For years, Henry Markram has claimed that he can simulate the human brain in a computer within a decade. On 23 January 2013, the European Commission told him to...

Self-Driving Cars More Jetsons Than Reality for Google Designers
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Self-Driving Cars More Jetsons Than Reality for Google Designers

Google Inc. sees self-driving cars being available to consumers in three to five years. Regulators and the insurance industry aren't so sure it can happen that...

Drone Home
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Drone Home

A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to...

Qihoo Takes on Baidu in China's Search Engine Wars
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Qihoo Takes on Baidu in China's Search Engine Wars

In the past few years, Zhou Hongyi, the 43-year-old co-founder of Chinese antivirus company Qihoo 360 Technology, has engaged in high-profile legal conflicts with...

Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
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Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook

Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...

Microsoft to Big Data Programmers: Try F#
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Microsoft to Big Data Programmers: Try F#

Microsoft researcher Don Syme notes that one primary difference between F# and other programming languages is that F# is a functional-first language and, in many...

Otis Elevator Vies For the Ultratall Skyscraper Market
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Otis Elevator Vies For the Ultratall Skyscraper Market

The Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is the first of a breed of ultratall buildings that will exceed 3,000 feet in height. That's more than twice as tall...

Google Asks: How Much Is Mapping Worth?
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Google Asks: How Much Is Mapping Worth?

How much has mapping software changed your life?

In Big Tech, Bet on Companies That Seek a 'better Way'
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In Big Tech, Bet on Companies That Seek a 'better Way'

Consumer internet companies are notorious for selling us something we don't really need, whether it’s Foursquare telling us to check in to the restaurants and shops...

Ayasdi: Stanford Math Begets a Data Company
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Ayasdi: Stanford Math Begets a Data Company

Like most of his peers, Gunnar Carlsson spends his time thinking about hairy, theoretical math problems.

IBM Predicts Cognitive Systems As New Computing Wave
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IBM Predicts Cognitive Systems As New Computing Wave

At year's end, IBM selects a new innovation that has the potential to change the world.

Applying Search Engine Techniques to Physics Data, Yandex Partners ­p with Cern
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Applying Search Engine Techniques to Physics Data, Yandex Partners ­p with Cern

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is perhaps best-known for two things: (probably) locating the elusive Higgs Boson, and being the birthplace...

Can You Predict the Future By Reading Twitter? The Pentagon Thinks Maybe
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Can You Predict the Future By Reading Twitter? The Pentagon Thinks Maybe

The Defense Department wants new computer tools to analyze mounds of unstructured text, blogs, and tweets as part of a coordinated push to help military analysts...

Amazon Drives Seattle Office Market Surge
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Amazon Drives Seattle Office Market Surge

If the strength of Seattle’s office market could be chalked up to one company, it would be Amazon.

Google Glass Hackathons Coming Up in SF and NY
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Google Glass Hackathons Coming Up in SF and NY

Google announced that it is throwing two hackathons for developers to get to know and work on its Google Glass project. The people allowed to participate in the...
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