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A new study suggests that encoding information using corkscrew-shaped laser beams could help us keep pace with our ever-increasing data demands.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation and other information privacy advocates have created Canary Watch, a database of common online companies' acknowledgments that they have not been ordered by government entities to release private user information.
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LaMetric is a customizable "smart ticker" designed to help navigate the daily information avalanche by delivering the specific information you need on one simple interface – from weather forecasts to stock prices to social media updates to account balances.
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With the goal of developing a robot able to understand natural language commands, the Cornell University "Tell Me Dave" project is getting robots to learn complex tasks by seeing and doing, thereby continually learning without written software updates.
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ScienceResearchers in Uruguay and in Louisiana have succeeded in forming a loop quantum gravity model of a quantum black hole. The result is that predictions of physics-ending singularities vanish, and are replaced by bridges to another universe.
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ScienceA sapphire disk etched in platinum could preserve information for future generations to decipher 10 million years from now.
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ScienceA new study has estimated how much information there is in the world in terms of how much information humankind is able to store, communicate and compute.
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Wikipedia celebrates its tenth birthday on 15 January: it now features roughly 17 million articles in 270 languages, all created by a volunteer community, and is consulted by more than 400 million people every month.
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Dog-e-Minder is a battery-powered three-button device that clips to your pet's collar to record your dog last had a meal, some exercise and its medication.
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Restricting certain stem cell proteins in ovarian cancers offer new hope for treatment
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Information-gathering company, Intelius, has released a mobile app called Date Check that in minutes scans billions of publicly available documents to ascertain if the guy (or girl) you just met is worthy of a second date.