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NPR – August 16, 2013 For decades, acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog has introduced audiences to subjects that stick in one’s mind long after the credits
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Researchers in Britain have set out the first comprehensive map of mutational processes behind the development of tumors – work that should in future lead
Read moreHow Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets
Though she has written to members of Congress and has submitted Freedom of Information Act requests, Poitras has never received any explanation for why she
Read moreProtag enlists the help of strangers to find your lost stuff
Ever since Bluetooth Low Energy chips emerged, a growing number of object tagging and tracking services have sprouted up to take advantage of thetechnology’s potential as a
Read moreEmployer Tipped Off Police To Pressure Cooker And Backpack Searches, Not Google
In what might be Medium‘s first widespread Twitter moment, music writer Michele Catalano used the platform to blog details of an unexpected visit to her home yesterday, from six
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Read moreNobody ever got fired for buying a cluster – Microsoft Research
In the last decade we have seen a huge deployment of cheap clusters to run data analytics workloads. The conventional wisdom in industry and academia
Read moreWhat Do We Mean By Small Data
Earlier this week we published the first in a series of posts on small data: “Forget Big Data, Small Data is the Real Revolution”, .
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