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Foursquare has updated its Android app to include support for tap-and-go check-ins and P2P sharing using NFC. The app will now be able to read NFC tags at a location and immediately take a user to a venue page, where they can check-in.
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No way. Mention is a great tool, and even better in some aspects, but it stops at 500 mentions of whatever you put it to search unless you pony up 19.99$/month.
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Aggregate, Curate and Publish Across Web, Social and Email with OpenTopic
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Mobile Technology - 7 Location Based Apps Changing The Mobile Industry. Mobile technology is advancing on a high speed; people are depending on their cell phones to accomplish various tasks. Via Pekka Puhakka Delete the scoop?
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Foursquare superusers are most likely to notice venue problems while they’re out and about, trying to check in. Foursquare’s mobile apps support a limited amount of editing, but it’s not the main thing they’re designed for. Via Pekka Puhakka Delete the scoop?
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If you want to create a "persistent search", that is, a recurring search on a specific set of keywords, and obtain a RSS feed that you can subscribe to, here is how to do it: Just append &format=rss to the end of the url to turn any search results page into an RSS feed automatically. Even better, you can combine the RSS feed parameter with the search by time parameter that Bing makes available so that you will receive new sites entering the search results more frequently in your RSS reader. Creating RSS feeds out of persisten searches can be particularly useful for news curators who want to monitor search engines on specific topics without having to manually go and perform those searches. For more info: http://www.ghacks.net/2013/03/23/bing-create-search-result-rss-feeds/ Delete the scoop?
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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... Via The Futurist Delete the scoop?
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From a starter map of our body’s microbes, to mobile apps that monitor critical health measures, 2012 was a banner year for innovation in health and medicine — even if some breakthroughs and events revealed how far we have to go. We asked our community on Facebook and Twitter for nominations on the top game-changers last year. Here are a few... Via ehealthgr, Thibaud Guymard Delete the scoop?
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Life in this world is not like it used to be just a few decades ago, and the availability of world-class education on-demand, at almost no cost, is likely to help things change all the more as this century unfolds. YouTube now hosts more than 500,000 educational videos, on a wide variety of topics. The new mobile-friendly iTunes U also offers 500,000 educational resources and says that 60% of its viewership comes from outside the United States. This global consumption of U.S.-created online educational content may be the newest chapter in a radical transformation of global education over the past 50 years. Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald Delete the scoop?
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Biophysicists have found two ways to create molecular robots and spiders. The first, known as DNA walkers, have a body and feet made from DNA, with extra "anchor" strands of DNA that join the feet to a surface. When different "fuel" strands are put in front of a walker, they preferentially join to the anchor strands, thereby freeing the walker to move forward. The second type of robot, known as a molecular spider, has a protein body and DNA legs that chemically cleave tall strands of DNA on a surface. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/42599 Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald Delete the scoop?
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A wealth of extra free genetic data could be at scientists' fingertips if a new website allowing the public to make their test results available gets enough traction. OpenSNP provides a way for people who have had tests carried out by direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies – so far 23andMe, deCODEme and Family Tree DNA are supported – to upload their raw results online along with personal characteristics they wish to share from their eye colour to artistic ability to coffee consumption. Everyone can see the resulting data and download it, including scientists. Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald Delete the scoop?
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Location-based mobile services have been one of the major digital trends this year, as they provide a great opportunity for retailers and brands to create contextual experiences to engage their customers. Via Tim Spencer Delete the scoop?
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The experts examine how scientists are fighting for our survival by battling the world's big killer diseases. Biologist Aarathi Prasad joins virus hunters in the jungles of Africa, Robert Winston sees first-hand how the surgeons of the future could be robots, capable of operating round the clock, and Richard Dawkins investigates the way brain disorders might one day be treated using laser light and genetically modified brain cells.
Anatomist Joy Reidenberg discovers two possible solutions to the killer disease malaria and - most extraordinarily of all - Aarathi Prasad meets a woman whose life has been saved by a revolutionary new cancer treatment, in which every patient gets an individually tailored cocktail of drugs. From the jungles of Cameroon to the quads of Oxford, the programme celebrates the work of scientists striving to extend and save our lives. Via Szabolcs Kósa Delete the scoop?
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La evolución del bookmarklet en extensión de browser más robusta, dentro de un concepto de curación visual de contenido. Delete the scoop?
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BundlePost is a social curation web app which allows you to easily find relevant posts on the topics of your interest and to auto-schedule their republication on your preferred social media channel with your custom hashtags and Twitter names. The service has been out there for over a year, but it has recently updated its website and service features. BundlePost taps into your selected set of RSS feeds and Google Alerts (not for much longer) and aggregates relevant posts according to your theme and keyword specifications so that you can review, edit and modify those that you want to get published. Scheduling and distribution features allow you to set exactly where and when you want each piece of content to be published. BundlePost integrates perfectly with HootSuite, allowing you to upload days of ready-to-go scheduled content for any social network in minutes, and with its hashtag system is capable of creating folders for each of your campaigns, clients or accounts that coincide with a specific topic. "Within each folder you designate the keywords and phrases that you know will be found in the text of the content curated by Bundle Post, as well as what hashtags you want the system to replace them with. You can also identify any words or phrases that will be contained in the text of posts and have Bundle Post automatically replace them with a specific twitter name, making it an active link when posted." My comment: The perfect tool for social media and content marketers looking for the easiest way to post relevant content to their social media channels automatically and over time. If you are ready for a pretty "Spartan" interface but have a strong need to automate your social publishing needs, this solution may be worth checking out. Outside of my personal doubts on the effectiveness of this approach, the tool delivers tremendous time saving features for those looking exactly for this. You ca have automate FollowFridays. If instead you wonder from were all this extra information noise in your Twitter and social media accounts comes from, you now have another possible suspect. Free 30-day trial available (no credit card required). More info: http://www.bundlepost.com/ How it works: http://www.bundlepost.com/tour Pricing: http://www.bundlepost.com/pricing 
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In the future intuitive, flexible and highly interactive devices will replace the clunky desktop computers and fixed-sized screens that rule our lives today. For many, the reality of an intelligent interactive interface - like those seen in movies like "Minority Report", "Avatar" and "Star Trek" - is a distant or far-fetched idea with little hope of real-world implementation. Delete the scoop?
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This is the 3rd Fay collection designed by Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi. In the past two collections Spring Summer 2012 and Fall Winter 2012 and there was an obvious hint of change and experimentation. While for the Spring Summer 2013 we see how the designers have been let free to make their own interpretation of the future style of Fay, bringing us back to the 60s but with materials of the 21st century. Light spring jackets and coats for a minimalist and modern look. The mini-dresses are inspired by the outfits worn by tennis players, reinterpretated with sophistacted silhuettes. The collection experiments with fabrics, prints and details reinventing Fay's iconic garnments with a unique stylistic flair. Short hemlines, vivid colors, crocodile prints for a Twiggy approved spring summer 2013. Via Mariano Pallottini Delete the scoop?
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Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) scientists eradicate lung tumours in a pre-clinical mouse model. Previous studies had already shown that Myc was a key protein in tumour development and had established how to inhibit Myc through gene therapy. The protein Myc is involved in the development of diverse tumours and so Myc-targeted therapy could make a positive contribution to the therapeutic options for different types of cancer.
The study has managed to eliminate mouse lung tumours by inhibiting Myc, a protein that plays a key role in the development of many different tumours. The results, published in the journal Genes & Development, confirm that repeated, long-term treatment does not cause side effects. Even more importantly, no resistance to treatment has been encountered, which is one of the biggest concerns with anticancer therapies. These results show that anticancer therapies based on Myc inhibition are a safe, effective therapeutic option in new drug development.
Myc is a protein that plays a big role in regulating gene transcription and it is involved in cell processes such as proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis (programmed cell death - an essential part of regenerating tissues and eliminating damaged cells). It acts as a regulator gene that controls the expression of some 15% of human genes. However, imbalances in this protein bring about uncontrolled cell growth which in turn can lead to the onset of cancer in different tissues. In fact, deregulated Myc is found in most tumours, including cervical, breast, colon, lung and stomach cancer.
The work conducted by the Mouse Models of Cancer Therapy group at the VHIO, led by Dr Laura Soucek, shows that Myc can be controlled and inhibited through a mutant called Omomyc that hijacks Myc and prevents it from acting. “Even if we clearly identify a mechanism behind tumour development, it is still extremely complex to pinpoint how to intervene in cells' internal machinery or modify genetic processes,” explained Dr Soucek. “We have found a way to inhibit Myc through Omomyc,” she continued. “We induced Omomyc expression in mice through gene therapy and managed to activate and deactivate it by administering an antibiotic to the mice in their drinking water.”
In the study, multiple lung tumours were induced in the mouse (up to 200 tumours in each individual) and Myc inhibition episodes were achieved by activating Omomyc expression for 4-weeks, followed by 4-week rest periods. This therapy - known as metronomic therapy - was maintained for more than a year, regularly checking tumour progress in each mouse. All mice became tumour free after the first inhibition period, but 63% of cases then relapsed. After the second Myc inhibition period, only 11% of the initial tumours reappeared. According to Dr Soucek, “the most important finding was that there were no signs of resistance to treatment. This is one of the biggest disadvantages of many anticancer therapies: the disease develops resistance and can return even more aggressively.”
Finally, only two remaining tumours were found after more than one year of treatment among the mice that received eight inhibition and rest cycles. Dr Soucek found that Omomyc expression had been suppressed in these tumours, and this was the only adaptive mechanism that mice developed to treatment. “These results are hugely positive for us, because one year of life in a mouse is equivalent to almost 40 human years. The fact that the results are maintained over time, that there is no tumour relapse and no resistance, suggests that Myc-targeted therapy may offer an unprecedented way forward."
These encouraging results provide sufficient scientific evidence to consider taking the next step: inhibiting Myc in patients. “Now our challenge for the future is to make Myc inhibition feasible from a pharmacological point of view, so that it can be administered, and done so safely. This will be the last step before designing clinical trials with Myc inhibitors,” explained Dr Soucek. “We're so excited about reaching this turning point and I am quite certain that it will change the course of cancer therapy, despite there being a long road ahead.” Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald 
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Watson couldn't distinguish between polite language and profanity -- which the Urban Dictionary is full of. Watson picked up some bad habits from reading Wikipedia as well. In tests it even used the word "bullshit" in an answer to a researcher's query.
Ultimately, Brown's 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing and scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory.
funny story: Watson being honest when put to the test
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This video is to be watched by all interested in curation. As curation and creatively becomes a much in demand skill, how can those content marketers looking for that easy share produce more content in less time? Well this video shall aim to answer that along with other inspiring ideas
Scott: Very helpful to see the subtlty of variations on curation
Robin:This is an oustandingly good video about "curation". After nine months from its first appearance, it undoubtedly deserves a second pass on my newsradar here, as I think this is a clip that, in less than three minutes, can do a good job to explain what curation really is to anyone not familiar with it.
I find this video clip such a marvellous piece of inspiring content that I have decided to post it again, giving the opportunity to you - if you haven't seen it yet - to look at curation with eyes distant light-years from those of the content marketer looking for easy shortcuts to produce more content in less time, - and if you have seen it already - to look at it again and to pause and think about how you are going to take up and make yours some of the inspiring ideas shared in this clip.
Asking yourself more questions about how you curate and for what final purpose you do it, can only be a healthy exercise in refining this much in-demand skill.
To be watched by anyone interested in curation. 8/10
Original clip: http://vimeo.com/38524181
Great video that does a great job framing the definition of curation.
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Phase one of the world's first commercial spaceport, which will be the hub for Virgin's consumer spaceflights, is now 90 per cent complete. The 1,800-acre Spaceport America site, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is the home base for Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's most ambitious business venture yet. It already boasts a runway stretching to nearly two miles long, a futuristic styled terminal hanger, and a dome-shaped Space Operations Center.
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Gravity may be woven into the very fabric of space-time, but some objects seem nearly immune to its pull. Scale something down to the size of a dust particle and you'll find it can stay aloft almost indefinitely, dancing in midair on thermal currents. Cornell University graduate student Justin Atchison set out to create such a miniature spacecraft. The aim of the project "Sprite" is to fit everything a satellite might need onto a 1-square-centimeter integrated circuit.
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An ultra-low-cost computer for use in teaching computer programming to children has been developed by The Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK registered charity. The first version is about the size of a USB key, and is designed to plug into a TV or be combined with a touch screen for a low cost tablet. The expected price is $25 for a fully configured system.
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Way back in February of 2011, I wrote an extensive article for H+ on 3D printing and how it would allow a transition between an economy based on material “value” and scarcity to one based on nonmaterial “value” and abundance.
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