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Your Laptop Can Now Analyze Big Data
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed GraphChi, a framework for running large-scale computations on one personal computer.
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Nasa's Car-Size Rover Nears Daring Landing on Mars
NASA's most advanced planetary rover is on a precise course for an early August landing beside a Martian mountain to begin two years of unprecedented scientific...
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How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind
It's time to think of Google as much more than just a search engine, and that should both excite and spook you.
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Getting to the Bottom of Statistics
Technische Universitat Darmstadt researchers have developed the Explain-a-LOD tool, which accesses linked open data and automatically formulates hypotheses regarding...
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DARPA Seeks 'radical Innovation' in Data Analysis
DARPA is interested in novel ways to identify people, places, objects, and activities in visual and geospatial images. DARPA is seeking participants for a project...
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The Eyes Have It: Marketers Now Track Shoppers' Retinas
Consumer-products companies are turning to new technology to overcome the biggest obstacle to learning what shoppers really think: what the shoppers say.
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Researchers Digitize Aids Quilt to Make It a Research Tool
In 2010 the University of Southern California's Anne Balsamo launched an effort to digitize the AIDS Quilt in an attempt to make the memorial more accessible via...
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Future Planetary Rovers May Make Their Own Decisions
It's a hot summer day, and your eyes spot an ice cream cart up ahead. Without even really thinking, you start walking that direction. Planetary scientists would...
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Google Remakes Online Empire With 'Colossus'
More than a decade ago, Google built a new foundation for its search engine.
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The Measured Man
Computer scientist Larry Smarr envisions the development of "a distributed planetary computer of enormous power," one that comprises 1 billion processors and that...
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A Phone That Knows Where You're Going
Researchers have developed an algorithm that follows a person's mobility patterns and also analyzes the patterns of people in the user's social network. In a study...
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Simulated Space 'terror' Offers Nasa an Online Following
The video is called "Seven Minutes of Terror," and describes, with the suspense and cinematography of a movie preview, what will happen next month when a one-ton...
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When Does An App Need Fda's Blessing?
Bernard Farrell obsesses over every bite he eats, every minute of exercise he gets, and everything that stresses him out. And, more than anything else, Farrell...
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Big Data and the Changing Economics of Privacy
There was a time when only people with money to hire a detective could dig into someone’s life. Now, dozens of companies have sprung up that will prowl into a person’s...
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Mapping Research With Wikimaps
The evolution of a page, topic, or collection of connections on Wikipedia can be mapped using a dynamic tool from an international research team. The tool, WikiMaps...
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Patent Trawler Aims to Predict Next Hot Technologies
Hungarian Academy of Sciences researchers have developed a data-mining tool that automatically helps predict emerging technologies.
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Mars Panorama: Next Best Thing to Being There
From fresh rover tracks to an impact crater blasted billions of years ago, a newly completed view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration...
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PageRank Algorithm Reveals Soccer Teams' Strategies
Many readers will have watched the final of the Euro 2012 soccer championships last Sunday in which Spain demolished a tired Italian team by 4 goals to nil. The...
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Symantec: World Has 2.2 Zettabytes of Business Data That Costs $1.1 Trillion to Store and Secure
Organizations globally hold approximately 2.2 zettabytes of data and spend roughly $1.1 trillion to secure and provide access to it, according to a new Symantec...
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