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Project Aims to Crowdsource What Makes a Happy City
Cambridge University researchers will use crowdsourcing to rank the most peaceful and happy places in London.
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Google Leapfrogs Microsoft in Market Value
For Microsoft, it was bad enough when Apple's stock market value surpassed its own in 2010. Now Google, a company that didn't even exist 15 years ago, just did...
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U.s. Law Enforcement Is Tracking Who Calls, Texts, and Emails Whom More Often Than Ever Before
Law enforcement isn't just interested in what Americans are saying on the phone or on the Internet.
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Apple Designs the Future
It’s impossible to look anywhere these days without noticing how profoundly Apple has influenced design and computing interfaces.
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The Economics of Video Games
Inflation can be a headache for any central banker. But it takes a certain type of economist to know what to do when a belligerent spaceship fleet attacks an interstellar...
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Mobile Ads: Here's What Works and What Doesn't
In 2010, Apple Inc. AAPL co-founder Steve Jobs proclaimed, "Mobile advertising really sucks." Now, however, the rule book for what works in mobile advertising is...
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Facebook's New Pitch to Brand Advertisers: Forget About Clicks
Facebook Inc., stung by doubts that advertising on the social network delivers enough bang for the buck, is preparing to unveil data to counter its critics and...
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Most European Languages in Danger of Digital Extinction
META-NET recently completed a study that assessed language technology support for 30 European languages in four different areas, including automatic translation...
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Fostering Tech Talent in Schools
Microsoft recently launched the Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (Teals) program, an effort aimed at getting high school students interested in computer...
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Fast Algorithm Extracts, Compares Document Meaning
Technical University of Wroclaw researchers have developed an algorithm that reduces the complexity involved in comparing two documents by merging a computationally...
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Next p: Environmentally Safe Electronics That Also Vanish in the Body
University of Illinois researchers say they have developed biodegradable electronics technology that could lead to new design paradigms for a wide range of applications...
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Computers Match Humans in Understanding Art
Lawrence Technological University researchers have developed an algorithm that demonstrates computers can be made to understand art in a way very similar to how...
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Power, Pollution, and the Internet
Jeff Rothschild's machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt.
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Mandelbrot: Art, Math, Science, and Works in Progress
The image here, generated from a relatively simple mathematical formula, has become iconic and permanently connected with the man who identified it: mathematician...
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In Cyberattacks, Hacking Humans Is Highly Effective Way to Access Systems
The emails arrived like poison darts from cyberspace.
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Larry Roberts Calls Himself the Founder of the Internet. Who Are You to Argue?
In 1966, the U.S. Department of Defense hired Roberts to design the ARPAnet, a computer network that would connect various research outfits across the country.
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Automatic Building Mapping Could Help Emergency Responders
MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.
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Google Spans Entire Planet With Gps-Powered Database
A new Google research paper details the workings of the Spanner data storage and compilation system, billed as the first database capable of quickly storing and...
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Itu Predicts 25 Billion Networked Devices By 2020
There will be as many as 25 billion devices online by 2020 as the Internet of things revolution takes off, and the proliferation of technologies such as machine...
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