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Google Retools Its Flu Prediction Engine—after Getting It Wrong
It's flu season and Google has some news.
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Accessibility Claims Expected Over Websites
Businesses should brace for a new crop of so-called "accessibility" lawsuits alleging that their commercial websites fail to comply with federal disabled-access...
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Tech Companies Hope to Introduce Coding to 100 Million Students
The CEOs of two dozen major tech companies, including Google and Microsoft, will announce their support on Wednesday for a project by nonprofit Code.org that seeks...
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Google Working on Large-Scale Video Displays
Google's advanced-projects lab, Google X, is developing a giant display consisting of smaller screens that fit together to create a seamless image.
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The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents
During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...
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Replay: New Wizardry Keeps Pinball Rolling in the Internet Age
At the recent Battle at Stonehedge pinball tournament here, Jessie Carduner cursed her ninth-place finish and vowed to get professional help.
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Google Backs Second Quantum Computing Effort
Scientists can't seem to agree on what a quantum computer is. But the uncertainty hasn't deterred Google from backing a second major effort in the field.
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For Google's Self-Driving Cars, It's a Bumpy Trip
The future of Google's pursuit of fully autonomous vehicles is being put into question by new California rules that forbid such vehicles from driving on public...
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Antivirus Works Too Well, Gripe Cybercops
Internal documents leaked by activists earlier this month show police clients from several nations complaining to FinFisher GmbH, a seller of spyware to government...
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Okcupid's Co-Founder on Experiments, Data Science and the Myth of the 'unicorn'
Christian Rudder, co-founder and president of the IAC/InterActiveCorp.'s OkCupid, caused a stir recently when he responded to Facebook's news feed controversy with...
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Big Data's High-Priests of Algorithms
Industry demand for data scientists is exploding with many businesses looking for people skilled in sifting through massive volumes of data streaming in from different...
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Google's New Moonshot Project: The Human Body
Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious and difficult science project ever: a quest inside the human body.
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For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work
Sverker Johansson could be the most prolific author you've never heard of.
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D-Wave Wins More Funding For Quantum Computing Push
D-Wave Systems, which has been developing a radically different kind of computer since 1999, has installed a grand total of two systems outside its premises. But...
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Nypd's Facebook Page Shares Its Triumphs
The New York Police Department's Facebook page has taken on a role that was once largely limited to the city's press corps: publishing news articles.
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Chainsaws, Gunshots, and Coughs: Our Smartphones Are Listening
From chainsaws whirring in rainforests to snoring that sounds like chainsaws, entrepreneurs are finding all sorts of creative ways to detect sounds using smartphones...
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Here's What the Leaders of Tech Told Graduates in 2014
Graduates around the world gather at the end of spring for one final lesson: the commencement speech.
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Former Nsa Chief Mike Mcconnell Says Culture, Not Tech, Is Key to Cyber Defense
John M. (Mike) McConnell says that technology alone isn't enough to secure corporate networks from pervasive and increasingly damaging cyberattacks.
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Genes in the Cloud: Google Steps Into Autism Research
Google and Autism Speaks will house the sequencing of 10,000 complete genomes and other clinical data with the goal of accelerating research on autism.
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