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Crowdsourcing Platforms Monitor Disease, Dissent, and Disasters
Crowdsourcing platforms developed to aid epidemiological investigations have been repurposed to catalog political strife in Syria.
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China's Next-Generation Internet Is a World-Beater
China is developing a next-generation national Internet that reportedly is on a larger scale than anything being developed in the West.
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Sxsw: Google's Amit Singhal Talks Natural-Language Search, Mobile
How do you build a search engine that's more attuned to natural language, capable of divining what you mean, and giving back what you want?
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Web-Based 'brain' For Robots Goes Live
Robots confused about what they encounter in the world of humans can now get help online.
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Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You
Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about whether you're pregnant or divorced or trying...
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The History of Hadoop: From 4 Nodes to the Future of Data
Depending on how one defines its birth, Hadoop is now 10 years old. In that decade, Hadoop has gone from being the hopeful answer to Yahoo’s search-engine woes...
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Dhs Built Domestic Surveillance Tech Into Predator Drones
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance...
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Researchers Develop Algorithm to Maximize Friendship Acceptance By Strangers on Social Networks
A new algorithm can help strangers become 'friends' with people they do not know on social networks.
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Frozen Android Phones Give Up Data Secrets
Researchers were able to bypass the encryption system of an Android smartphone by freezing it for an hour.
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Lars Rasmussen: The Brains Behind Facebook's Future
For a man that made his career out of helping millions of people find their way around, Lars Rasmussen is frank about his own navigational shortcomings.
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The Big-Data Interview: Making Sense of the New World Order
In April 2003, British and U.S. researchers declared the Human Genome Project complete.
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Feds Crack Down on Mobile-Phone Spammers
The U.S Federal Trade Commission said today that it is cracking down on marketers that are allegedly bombarding consumers with hundreds of millions of unwanted on...
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Tracking Sensors Invade the Workplace
A few years ago when Bank of America Corp. wanted to study whether face time mattered among its call-center teams, the big bank asked about 90 workers to wear badges...
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Kinect Demo Shows Off Hand Recognition, Multitouch
Microsoft Research this week showed off a demo application that allows for Kinect to recognize multi-touch gestures.
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Graphene Antennas Would Enable Terabit Wireless Downloads
A proposed wireless antenna made from graphene could enable terabit-per-second transfer speeds at short ranges.
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Fashion Statement: Designer Creates Line of Drone-Proof Garments to Protect Privacy
As the U.S. government draws up plans to use surveillance drones in domestic airspace, opposition to what many consider an unwarranted and significant invasionprivacy...
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How Two Volunteers Built the Raspberry Pi’s Operating System
When you buy a Raspberry Pi, the $35 computer doesn't come with an operating system.
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The Disappearing Interface
Where static computer screens and smartphones suck in our gaze and extract us from the world around us, many of the most interesting new tech gadgets and ideas...
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