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| Shaunacy Ferro / Popular Science: |
How Facebook Used Science To Design More Emotional Emoticons
— With the help of a psychology professor and a Pixar illustrator, Facebook is trying to make our messages a little more emotional. — Surprise Matt Jones / Facebook — In 1872, Charles Darwin published The Expression …
May 14, 2013, 1:20 AM–
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| Dan Nosowitz / Popular Science: |
Meet The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurricane Sandy On Wikipedia
— Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He's also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no mention of climate change.
Nov 4, 2012, 9:10 AM–
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| Rebecca Boyle / Popular Science: |
ISS Will Broadcast First Streaming HD Video of Earth
— Hurricane Ivan From Space via Wikimedia Commons — Only a lucky few have ever seen what Earth looks like from space, with human impacts all but invisible and the blackness of space just beyond the horizon.
Jun 26, 2011, 7:40 PM–
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| Rebecca Boyle / Popular Science: |
New Algorithms Match Police Sketches to Real Mug Shots, Helping Nab Suspects
— The new computer system found a match 45 percent of the time — Sketch and Photo A new facial recognition system matches a police artist's sketch with a photograph. MSU — A new set of algorithms …
Mar 8, 2011, 8:35 AM–
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| Clay Dillow / Popular Science: |
Boston's ‘Street Bump’ App Tries To Automatically Map Potholes With Accelerometers and GPS
— Street Bump The Street Bump app uses a phone's accelerometer to chart potholes in the road as a car drives over them, then broadcasts a GPS tagged report to city authorities. Street Bump
Feb 13, 2011, 10:15 PM–
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| Clay Dillow / Popular Science: |
An Order of Seven Global Cyber-Guardians Now Hold Keys to the Internet
— The Keys to the Internet Each smart card contains a portions of the DNSSEC root key, which would be necessary to reboot the Internet as we know it if connections were severed to stem a cyber attack.
Jul 27, 2010, 6:55 PM–
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| Clay Dillow / Popular Science: |
iPhone Armed With Facial Recognition App Lets Cops ID Perps on the Street
— MORIS at Work Cops who need to ID a suspect simply snap a photo on their iPhones. A statewide database being developed in Massachusetts can match up faces with criminal records in a matter of seconds remotely, beaming a rap sheet back to cops on the beat.
Jun 15, 2010, 10:45 PM–
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| Clay Dillow / Popular Science: |
Computer Algorithm Can Recognize Sarcasm (Which Is Just Soooo Cool)
— Recognizing Sarcasm with Computer Algorithms — The pursuit of machine intelligence means we have to come up with ways to communicate with our computers in a way both entities can understand.
May 19, 2010, 9:35 AM–
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| Clay Dillow / Popular Science: |
A Single Molecule Computes Thousands of Times Faster than Your PC
— A demo of a quantum calculation carried out by Japanese researchers has yielded some pretty mind-blowing results: a single molecule can perform a complex calculation thousands of times faster than a conventional computer.
May 9, 2010, 11:20 PM–
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| Clay Dillow / Popular Science: |
HP Designjet 3D Printer Now On Sale, Churns Out Solid Plastic Objects From the Desktop
— Remember back in January when HP announced it would bring a tabletop 3-D printer to market, at a place and time to be named later? That place and time just became a quite a bit less ambiguous.
Apr 20, 2010, 9:40 AM–
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Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).