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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...
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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...
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The Origins of 'big Data': An Etymological Detective Story
Words and phrases are fundamental building blocks of language and culture, much as genes and cells are to the biology of life.
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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...
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Software Predicts Tomorrow's News By Analyzing Today's and Yesterday's
Researchers have created software that predicts when and where disease outbreaks might occur based on two decades of New York Times articles and other online data...
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Eric Schmidt nloads on China in New Book
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth.
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Scan May Detect Signs of Nfl Players' Brain Disease
An insidious, microscopic protein that has been found in the brain tissue of professional football players after death may now be detectable in living people by...
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Wanted: 40 Trillion Gigabytes of Open Storage, Stat!
IDC predicts a 50-fold increase in the total amount of digitally stored data between 2010 and 2020, which means that by the end of the decade the world's data footprint...
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Nasa's Cassini Watches Storm Choke on Its Own Tail
Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail.
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How to se a Million-Core Supercomputer—without It Blowing p in Your Face
At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, a supercomputer named "Sequoia" puts nearly every other computer on the planet to shame.
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Scientists Present a Software Package For All Types of Imaging
Max Planck Institute researchers recently released Numerical Information Field Theory (NIFTY), a program that can be used to map dimensions or spherical projections...
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First Look at an Atom's Shadow
Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Democritus theorized the existence of atoms by imagining what happens if you break a material into its smallest possible...
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Intel Futurist Says the Cloud Will Deliver nimagined Benefits to Government Services
Intel futurist David Johnson says that as people become more surrounded by data-driven intelligence about their lives, the power of aggregating information to the...
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Google Asks: How Much Is Mapping Worth?
How much has mapping software changed your life?
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A Digital Paradise By the Dashboard Light
The driver of the first Corvette, in 1953, was welcomed by a lovely fan of numbers—a sweeping, eye-catching speedometer denominated in 10-mile-per-hour intervals...
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Rio De Janeiro Brings Qr Codes to Its Streets
Rio de Janeiro is adding something new into its trademark black-and-white mosaic pavements: QR codes.
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Has Chip and Pin Had Its Day?
Go to a cash machine in Japan or Poland and there's a good chance you'll find a finger-sized scanner next to the keypad.
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Lens-Less Camera Emerges from Metamaterials Work
U.S. scientists have used metamaterials to build the imaging system, which samples infra-red and microwave light.
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