Are you being watched … by your phone?
THOUGHTS: Continuing with the “Person of Interest” thread… by Mike Elgan “You are being watched.” Those are the first words uttered in the opening monologue of a really cool TV show called Person of...
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Big Data Gets Bigger: Now Google Trends Can Predict The Market
by David Leinweber Yesterday three economists, (Tobias Preis of Warwick Business School in the U.K., Helen Susannah Moat of University College London, and H. Eugene Stanley of Boston University)...
View Article‘XCOM’ Becomes a Tactical Shooter in ‘The Bureau’
by Chelsea Stark Players can again enter the ‘XCOM’ universe and fight aliens later this summer, this time in a tactical third-person shooter, 2K Games announced Friday.The Bureau: XCOM Declassified...
View ArticleDDoS Attack Looks Like an Intense Game of Pong
by Stan Schroeder We’ve all heard of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks bringing down web servers, but we bet most people can’t really imagine what a DDoS attack looks like. Logstalgia...
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How Mobile Apps Are Changing Desktop Software
When Apple launched the iPhone App Store in 2008, few people recognized how revolutionary it was. Four years later, everyone can see that the App Store has uprooted the software industry, creating an...
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Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository, and so can you
By David Meyer Summary:The Wikimedia Foundation’s first major new project in 7 years is now feeding the biggest project in that stable, Wikipedia itself. But anyone can take structured data from...
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When Will Humans Upload Their Brains to Computers?
by Eric Niiler for Discovery News In the new techno-thriller Upload, a young computer scientist with a sketchy past and distrust of society decides to take the ultimate leap forward by scanning his...
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NewsWhip Spike: A powerful tool for tracking the world’s top trending news...
We first covered NewsWhip last September, a new online tool that mines Twitter and Facebook to find the hottest news right now. As we noted at the time, NewsWhip takes a dash of Flipboard’s approach...
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Transcribe: An awesome audio-transcription Web app for Chrome
If you ever have a need to transfer an audio recording into text format, you’ll likely love this little Chrome Web app. Aimed at journalists, students or anyone with a need to convert interviews and...
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Apple Flatters Microsoft With Imitation
THOUGHTS: I am glad I am not the only one to notice this… Photograph by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Unveiling iOS 7 at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference viagra canadian pharmacy dosage Apple...
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