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The Santa Cruz Experiment: Can a City's Crime Be Predicted and Prevented?
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Timeline: The Advance of the Data Civilization
Moveable Type Wikimedia CommonsView Photo GalleryIn 2009, English scientist Stephen Wolfram started a website--an "answer" engine--to redefine how information is gathered on its greatest-ever conduit....
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The Unsplittable Bit
Plucking the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge Jesse Lenz A countryman came into a telegraph office in Bangor, Maine, with a message, and asked that it be sent immediately. The operator took the message...
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The World's Most Amazing Databases: WorldCat
Amazing Databases: WorldCat Wikimedia Commons Since the nonprofit Online Computer Library Center created WorldCat 40 years ago, librarians around the world have filled the database with bibliographic...
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This Man Could Rule the World
Albert-László Barabási Julian Dufort In 1736 the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler ended a debate among the citizens of Königsberg, Prussia, by drawing a graph. The Pregel River divided the city, now...
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Amazing Databases: OKCupid's OKTrends
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The World's Most Amazing Databases: Sloan Digital Sky Survey Database
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The World's Most Amazing Databases: The International Panel on Climate...
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And Yet... And Yet...
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Home 3-D Viewing Equipment Is Getting Smaller and Smaller and Smaller
LG LW9800 Nano Full LED Cinema 3D HDTV LG 3-D TV is still experiencing some growing pains, in large part because of its reliance on bulky, uncomfortable and expensive active-shutter glasses. That's...
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Cell-Connected Security Devices Let You Keep an Eye on Your Home From Anywhere
Craftsman AssureLink Craftsman As telephone landlines become obsolete, so do the hardwired security systems that rely on them. Cellular modems and Wi-Fi receivers are now so affordable that...
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You Built What?! A Remote-Controlled Hacker Drone
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FYI: Can Humans Trigger Earthquakes?
All Shook Up The 7.9-magnitude quake in China's Sichuan province in 2008 was caused by water behind a dam pressing down on a fault line. The disaster left 4.8 million people homeless. Liu...
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Gray Matter: The Fire Bird
What Not To Do Although most people do fry turkeys safely, the author created a fireball by lowering a bird that hadn't been properly thawed into five gallons of soybean oil at a temperature 100...
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The Goods: November 2011's Hottest Gadgets
The Brauler The Zythos ProjectView Photo GalleryEvery month we search far and wide to bring you a dozen of the best new ideas in gear. These gadgets are the first, the best and the latest. Check out...
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For the past two years, the four Harvard graduates behind the dating site OkCupid have been studying user data for insight into human behavior and sharing the results…
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In 1998, astronomers using the 2.5-meter Sloan telescope at New Mexico’s Apache Point Observatory began scanning the sky and loading the images they captured into the freely…
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Before the International Panel on Climate Change launched its Data Distribution Centre (DDC) in 1998, researchers who needed climate-change projections had to get them from the handful of scientists...
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I should perhaps begin by saying that I am as big a fan of the Net and the Web and the whole expanding “information universe” as anyone you are likely to meet. I find myself online all the time,...
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3-D TV is still experiencing some growing pains, in large part because of its reliance on bulky, uncomfortable and expensive active-shutter glasses. That's now changing. A new wave of 3-D sets are...
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