Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Article: The MicrobeScope Uses Your iPhone As A Microscopic Sidekick To Capture Views Of Bacteria In Real-Time

There are countless cool ways to extend the abilities of your smartphone by plugging in or linking up additional hardware. But here’s a Kickstarter project that wants to use your smartphone to extend the powers of something else: a basic microscope — allowing for real-time videos of microbes doin...

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/microbescope/

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Article: Panasonic 4K wearable camera arriving in May

Shooting video in 4K is quickly becoming more and more accessible, and Panasonic is about to begin offering another option to get shooters started. In May, it will release the HX-A500, a wearable camera that can shoot 4K video at 25 frames per second — a feat that Panasonic claims its camera is t...

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/24/5541828/4k-wearable-camera-hx-a500-panasonic-price-release-date

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Article: Disconnect unveils private search Android app and web interface

Disconnect Search, a tool that lets people use popular search engines without having their queries logged or tracked, just got easier to use. On Monday, the outfit took the wraps off a new version that’s accessible through a webpage, an Android app that should come out of beta today, and browser ...

http://gigaom.com/2014/03/24/disconnect-unveils-private-search-android-app-and-web-interface/

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drag2share: IBM researchers' algorithm explores tweets for home location cues

Source: http://phys.org/news/2014-03-ibm-algorithm-explores-tweets-home.html

(Phys.org) —By drawing on the content of users' tweets and their tweeting behavior, a team of three IBM researchers said they have a new algorithm to infer the home location of Twitter users at different granularities, including city, state, time zone or geographic region. The algorithm makes use of the person's last 200 tweets for tracking. The scientists described their approach as an "ensemble of statistical and heuristic classifiers" and with this approach they said they could predict locations and make use of a geographic gazetteer dictionary (USGS [United States Geological Survey] gazetteer) to identify place-name entities. They analyzed movement variations of Twitter users, built a classifier to predict whether a user was travelling in a certain period of time and used that to further improve their detection accuracy.

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drag2share: Quantum Research Shows D-Wave's Computers Are (Probably) the Real Deal

Source: http://gizmodo.com/quantum-research-shows-d-waves-computers-are-probably-1550992502

Quantum Research Shows D-Wave's Computers Are (Probably) the Real Deal

D-Wave's quantum computers have certainly demonstrated that they're capable , but they've also received much criticism from scientists. Now, new results show that their technology could be even more solid than they'd claimed in the past.

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