Category: Linguistic Search

  • TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn

    TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn By Targeting Recruiters By David Zax, fastcompany.com By trolling various sites, TalentBin builds a database of people’s hidden talents. Can it reinvent headhunting in the process? Tal­ent­Bin, as its founder Pete Kazan­jy explains, is a LinkedIn com­peti­tor. And yet, if the aver­age per­son with … RT @FastCompany: TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn…

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  • Google Analytics For Real Life

    Google Analytics For Real Life: Tracking Retail Customers Through Smartphones By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com A new technology debuting at New York’s National Retail Federation expo lets retailers track in-store customer activity through their smartphones’ MAC addresses. A new prod­uct released at this year’s Nation­al Retail Fed­er­a­tion expo in New Y… RT @FastCompany: Google Analytics For…

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  • A New Company Uses Big Data To Fight Cancer

    A New Company Uses Big Data To Fight Cancer (And Rethink Basketball) BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcoexist.com Ayasdi, a new big-data firm with close ties to Stanford University and DARPA has plans to change the way researchers analyze cancer, money laundering, and professional sports. Cre­at­ing visu­al­iza­tions of huge data sets is big busi­ness.… RT @FastCompany: A…

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  • Open-sourced, big data knowhow meets auto racing

    Open-sourced, big data knowhow meets auto racing Jonathan M. Gitlin, arstechnica.com A few months ago, Ars took a look at how cars are getting smarter, mainly in the aid of fuel efficiency and safety. All that technology stuffed under the hood creates data, and where there’s data, there are nerds eager to analyze it.It used…

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  • All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook

    Whoa What: All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com No more caring about minutes. Free phone calls over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G! Face­book just let loose with a new update to the Mes­sen­ger app for iPhone, which until now was restrict­ed to text mes­sag­ing, sort of like…

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  • Up to 50 Percent of All Food Produced is Thrown Away

    Up to 50 Percent of All Food Produced is Thrown Away Tafline Laylin, inhabitat.com Researchers with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) has released their findings that between 30 to 50 percent of all food produced or up to two billion tons is thrown away each year. The UK-based group claims that over-cautious sell by……

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  • JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to online literature

    JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to its online academic library By Ben Kersey, theverge.com Online dig­i­tal library JSTOR will begin offer­ing free access to its cat­a­logue of jour­nals, papers, and books. The Reg­is­ter & Read pro­gram will now allow indi­vid­u­als to reg­is­ter for the ser­vice, but mem­bers will only be able to read……

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  • IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell

    IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell, Within The Next Five Years By Clay Dillow, popsci.com The computing giant’s annual list of technology predictions for the next five years foresee computers that can taste, see, smell, hear, and touch. At the end of each year, IBM releas­es its “5 in 5”—five tech­nol­o­gy pre­dic­tions that…

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  • Prediction: Science Funding Remains Strong

    2013 Prediction: Science Funding Remains Strong By Juliet Eilperin, popsci.com Barack Obama’s second term should see the same focus on funding science and technology—although the budget ax is looming. Sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy have utter­ly trans­formed human life in the past few gen­er­a­tions, and fore­casts of the… RT @gram_positive: But will remain weak in the Philippines.…

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  • Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things

    Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com In 2011, Berg worked with Google to imagine the service’s manifestation in real life. Here’s the remarkable, working prototype they came up with. Google is ridicu­lous­ly pow­er­ful. The ser­vice isn’t just search. It isn’t just maps. It isn’t j… RT…

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  • Is Climate Change Self-Correcting?

    Is Climate Change Self-Correcting? Australia’s Heatwave Stops Gasoline Sales By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com At high outback temperatures, gasoline vaporizes too quickly to pump. Con­tin­u­ing Aus­tralia’s trend of being major­ly unpleas­ant this week, it got so hot in the Out­back town of Ood­na­dat­ta a few days ago that you couldn’t even pump gas. RT @PopSci: Good…

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