Search results for raw data
Google bows to pressure for German Street View
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Google has bowed to demands in Germany to do more to protect people's privacy ahead of the launch of its Street View service here, officials said on Wednesday.
Germany to Google: Erase raw street-level images
May 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A data protection official for Germany said Wednesday that Google had yet to meet a key request that photos gathered for its panoramic mapping service be erased after they are sent to the United States ...
Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sailed seamlessly through the Nov. 21 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and started transmitting uncalibrated temperature data and images of the rippling terrain. ...
Seizures in newborns can be detected with small, portable brain activity monitors
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Compact, bedside brain-activity monitors detected most seizures in at-risk infants, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed. That means the compact units could assist clinicians in monitoring ...
Getting the most out of gemstones
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Emeralds, rubies and the like are referred to as colored gemstones by experts. They sparkle and shine with varying intensity, depending on the cut. A new machine can achieve the best possible cut and extract ...
Culinary shocker: Cooking can preserve, boost nutrient content of vegetables
Dec 24, 2007 |
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In a finding that defies conventional culinary wisdom, researchers in Italy report that cooking vegetables can preserve or even boost their nutritional value in comparison to their raw counterparts, depending ...
Data mining promises to dig up new drugs
Feb 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A robot scientist that can make informed guesses about how effective different chemical compounds will be at fighting different diseases could revolutionise the pharmaceutical industry by ...
White House launches open government initiative
May 21, 2009 |
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The White House invited ordinary Americans on Thursday to contribute ideas on making government more open and unveiled a new website where raw federal data will be put online for public use.
US university coding future of news
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Personalized newscasts culled from the Web and presented by digital avatars. Baseball stories written by computers using raw data.
Google routes World Bank data to fact seekers
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Google is adding World Bank figures to Internet results in a bid to make hard facts about countries worldwide easier to find.
A human approach to computer processing
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 02, 2008 |
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A more human approach to processing raw data could change the way that computers deal with information, according to academics at The University of Nottingham.
Broccoli may lower lung cancer risk in smokers
Nov 18, 2008 |
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The cancer preventive properties of broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables appear to work specifically in smokers, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International ...
The little giant of storage for the big screen
Aug 28, 2009 |
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The "FlashBox" onboard recorder will soon make the work of film professionals easier: Truly diminutive in size, it stores digital film on exchangeable disks without compression. German researchers will be ...
Bringing order to 'what if?'
May 31, 2007 |
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[B]USC builds a risk assessment system for the Department of Homeland Security[/B] A team working under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security-funded Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of ...
Ad hoc encyclopaedia for the information age
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 14, 2008 |
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Linking communities and information into a virtual digital library is the 21st century version of the Dictionaire Raisonneé. Better, they can be organised around specific topics, creating vast repositories and networks of ...
