2013 will be a year of more rapid advances in technology, lingering worries about the economy and a search for solutions about climate change. Patrick Tucker, deputy editor of The Futurist magazine, views 2013 a...
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Millions of people use the tool Ghostery to block online tracking technology—few realize that it feeds data to the ad industry.
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Whether you’re the manager at a company or a member of the team, happiness in the workplace is valued by every employee. With Hppy, employees can track their happiness at work and managers can observe their employees’ feelings. Delete the scoop?
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More details can be found at http://pr.cs.cornell.edu/anticipation/
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The Obama administration called the government review of detailed phone records of U.S. customers a critical tool in protecting the public from terrorists.
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Created by Microsoft and the New York Police Department, the Domain Awareness System, known as "the dashboard," is state-of-the-art crime fighting technology.
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Imagine for a second that you could interview a product. How often is it being used? For how long? And where in the house does it live?
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Acxiom knows where you live, where you shop and what you like to do. But it's not quite the evil data monolith you might expect. Delete the scoop?
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In new study, Facebook’s science team says the company killed automatic sharing on “Offers” because the science said active sharing works better. Delete the scoop?
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Facebook has data on $1 trillion off-line purchases. Delete the scoop?
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Anticipatory systems are giving computers a clue about what we really want. We see you shiver with anticipation. Delete the scoop?
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Happiness levels caputred by Tweets rise logarithmically with distance from our average location, say computer scientists studying Twitter sentiment (RT @Colvinius: RT @jdickerson: Big Data: Twitter 'Happiness' Soars as People Travel Further From ... Delete the scoop?
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This is a foray into Big Data. The initiative will let researchers amass and analyze the data needed to “…explore how the brain records, processes, uses, stores, and retrieves vast quantities of information, and shed light on the ... Delete the scoop?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. Delete the scoop?
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Overview A majority of Americans – 56% – say the National Security Agency’s (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans is an Delete the scoop?
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The Transportation Department said that driverless cars should not yet be allowed except for testing, but noted that some safety features could save lives. Delete the scoop?
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Those who first find each other through the Internet are more likely to stay hitched. Delete the scoop?
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(Medical Xpress)—When it comes to posting on social media, there are few areas of our lives that are off limits. Delete the scoop?
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A full 90% of all the data in the world has been generated over the last two years. The internet companies are awash with data that can be grouped and utilised. Is this a good thing? 
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May 23, 12:19 PM
How can statistic courses use big data for their courses? Would this not allow practice time with SPSS, SAS, or R to students? How about if students were allowed to create their own study questions off of a data set available online? Delete the scoop?
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How can organizations use big data to forecast cyber-attacks and support forensics investigations? Michael Fowkes and Aaron Caldiero of Zions Bank provide insight. Delete the scoop?
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Apps that proactively help people with their lives represent a significant departure from earlier approaches to software. Delete the scoop?
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As the amount of data expands exponentially, nearly all of it carries someone’s digital fingerprints. Delete the scoop?
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Ali Razeghi, a 27-year-old businessman and scientist in Tehran, has registered "The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine" with Iran's Center for Strategic Via FutureCast 
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Do you want to build a future-predicting machine? Sorry, too late, this machine has apparently already been built... (probably this needs to be taken with a pinch of salt from the Dead Sea) Delete the scoop?
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Research showing an association between seasons and mental health affirms the value of search queries for public health surveillance. Delete the scoop?
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In Issac Asimov's classic science fiction saga Foundation, mathematics professor Hari Seldon predicts the future using what he calls psychohistory. Delete the scoop?
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