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(http://www.newscientist.com)
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over 3 years ago
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David Crandall and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analysed the data attached to 35 million photographs uploaded to the Flickr website to create accurate global and city maps and identify popular snapping sites.
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(http://www.techcrunch.com)
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over 3 years ago
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Today, Google Labs launched a new product called Google News Timeline, which lays out the top stories from Google News in columns for each day. You can scroll down to see more stories or, of course, can search for specific topics or keywords. (It ...
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(http://www.techcrunch.com)
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over 3 years ago
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The latest layer to be turned on in Google Maps is one for webcams. Just click on the “More” button on the top right of each map right next to the “Traffic” button. When you do that, it shows you thumbnails from different public Webcams around the...
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(http://google-latlong.blogspot.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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When Google Earth 5.0 was released back in February, it included the capability to view the world ocean landscape from beneath the water surface. This capability now extends to the “Third Coast” of the United States, the Great Lakes. Through a coo...
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(http://www.fastcompany.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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Every day, we recognize hundreds of faces without giving it a second thought, but unlocking exactly how humans pull off that seemingly simple feat has bedeviled researchers, who have been tantalized by the wealth of applications that the science p...
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(http://blogs.zdnet.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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IBM on Tuesday unveiled a new services unit focused on business analytics and optimization and stumped for the need to use data to make better predictions.
At an event in its Hawthorne, NY research facility, Big Blue detailed plans to launch i...
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(http://www.businessweek.com)
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over 3 years ago
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Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production.
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(http://www.physorg.com)
- scanned by: Garry Golden
over 3 years ago
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Tel Aviv University Faculty of Engineering team drew upon the space-age science of motes to develop the new security tool. Dozens, hundreds and even thousands of these Smart Dew sensors - each equipped with a controller and RF transmitter/receiver...
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(http://www.newscientist.com)
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over 3 years ago
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Sure enough the iron triggered a bloom of phytoplankton. Dead bloom particles were then expected to sink to the ocean bed, dragging carbon along with them.
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(http://itc.conversationsnetwork...)
- scanned by: Adam Cutsinger
over 3 years ago
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In the future we may be able to find lost keys with a simple google search. Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling imagines how physical objects will be part of the internet as they become trackable in space and time. Bruce discusses the theoretica...
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thing, links, blogjects, the, internet, of, things, science, fiction, bruce, sterling, 2006, oreilly, emerging, technology, conference, artificial, intelligence, spimes, web, 20
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(http://www.iftf.org)
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over 3 years ago
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"We already have seen the emergence of health-based social networks (examples: PatientsLikeMe, CureTogether, MedHelp, SugarStats) that offer the ability to collect one's quantified self-tracking data. Other websites make available visualizat...
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(http://www.nytimes.com)
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over 3 years ago
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A new map of knowledge has been assembled by scientists at the research library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is based on electronic data searches in which users moved from one journal to another, thus establishing associations between...
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