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Researchers Say Web Searches Are Good Predictors of Success
Web searches are an indicator of the success of movies, games, and songs, according to a Yahoo! research group. Although the study found that traditional predictors...
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Google Offers JPEG Alternative for Faster Web
Google has developed a new format for Web images called WebP, which it says can reduce image file sizes by 40 percent compared to the widely used JPEG format.
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Scidac Visualizations Bring Science to the Senses
The recent SciDAC 2010 conference included a visualization competition involving attendees' best scientific visualizations from simulations run on high-performance...
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Researchers Generate Compelling Results on Tacc's Visualization Cluster
The Texas Advanced Computing Center's hardware-accelerated interactive visualization cluster, called Longhorn, is providing researchers with new visualization capabilities...
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Mapping the Brain on a Massive Scale
Scanning 1,200 brains could help researchers chart the organ's fine structure and better understand neurological disorders.
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Dust Models Paint Alien's View of Solar System
New supercomputer simulations tracking the interactions of thousands of dust grains show what the solar system might look like to alien astronomers searching...
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Personal Fabrication
Open source 3D printers could herald the start of a new industrial revolution.
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What Twitter Learns from All Those Tweets
The company's head of analytics explains how Twitter mines the data users produce.
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India Launches Project to Id 1.2 Billion People
India's vaunted tech savvy is being put to the test this week as the country embarks on a daunting mission: assigning a unique 12-digit number to each of its...
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Quantum Data Converted to Telecom Wavelengths
Using optically dense, ultra-cold clouds of rubidium atoms, researchers at Georgia Tech have made advances in three key elements needed for quantum information...
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'citizen Scientists' Could Help in Response to Environmental Disasters
Jules White, with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering, seeks to create a massive data collection system that would rely on information captured by "citizen...
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Progress Toward Terabit-Rate High-Density Recording
Next-generation high-density storage devices may keep more than 70 times the contents of the entire U.S. Library of Congress on a single disc—but only if that data...
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Sensor Networks Top Social Networks For Big Data
The Internet of Things—with sensors that monitor, for example, road use or airline flights—is poised to dwarf social media sites in its ability to generate data...
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Sensors Use Building's Electrical Wiring as Antenna
The trick lets sensors last five times as long between charges.
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Magical Beans: New Nano-Sized Particles Could Provide Mega-Sized Data Storage
Berkeley Lab researchers have discovered a new class of phase-change materials that could be applied to phase-change random access memory technologies and possibly...
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3-D Computer Simulations Help Shed Light on Supernovae Explosions
Scientists have found a novel way to make three-dimensional computer simulations of supernovae explosions that may help in understanding these explosions better...
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Nist Data Sets Enable Technical Basis For High-Rise Evacuation Planning
Researchers at NIST are stepping up the pace for designing safer building evacuations by releasing large, numerical datasets tracking the movement of people on...
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Archer Fish Can See Like Mammals
Computer scientists at Ben Gurion University of the Negev trained archer fish to spit at images of insects on a liquid crystal display screen, then used images...
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The Big Promise of Big Data: What You Need to Know Today
In the never-ending quest for a competitive advantage, organizations are turning to large repositories of corporate and external data to uncover trends, statistics...
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