Twitter political index launches for US election
Twitter on Wednesday launched a new political index aimed at gauging the 2012 US presidential race by analyzing daily tweets.
Aug 01, 2012
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Study pushes back onset date of South Africa's Later Stone Age by more than 20,000 years
The Later Stone Age emerged in South Africa more than 20,000 years earlier than previously believed -- about the same time humans were migrating from Africa to the European continent, says a new international ...
Jul 30, 2012
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Interview simulation technology does the job
(Phys.org) -- In a world-first, students who are anxious about doing job interviews can calm their nerves by doing mock interviews using innovative technology in a simulated corporate office at The Australian ...
Jul 26, 2012
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Bringing natural history collections out of the dark
In a special issue of ZooKeys, initiated by the Natural History Museum London, Vince Smith and Vladimir Blagoderov bring together 18 papers by 81 authors to look at progress and prospects for mass digitisin ...
Jul 24, 2012
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Microsoft camera-based stylus seeks accuracy in sea of pixels
(Phys.org) -- To the multitouch screen generation, the stylus PDA tool of the past century seems like a quaint relic. While most mobile devices and laptops then moved away from stylus-friendly touchscreens, ...
Jul 24, 2012
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Why 'trickle-up' innovation may shape the global economy
The Tata Nano, a city car both manufactured and sold in India, retails for $2,500, making it one of the world’s most affordable four-wheeled passenger vehicles.
Jul 19, 2012
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New Dell fund will invest in data storage technology
The chief of US computer maker Dell on Tuesday announced the launch of a $60 million fund focused on investing in technology for storing the massive amounts of data being collected by businesses.
Jul 17, 2012
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Drive toward a viable 'City of the Future'
Cities consume energy and raw materials, produce waste and pollutants, and overload their transportation systems. Fraunhofer researchers have now combined forces in the innovation network German for "Morgenstadt" (or "City ...
Jul 12, 2012
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UAVForge reveals challenge of developing perch-and-stare UAV
DARPA's UAVForge, a crowdsourcing competition to design, build and manufacture an advanced small unmanned air vehicle (UAV), set out to determine if a loosely-connected community of UAV enthusiasts could develop ...
Jul 03, 2012
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Scientists improve living tissues with 3-D printed vascular networks made from sugar
Researchers are hopeful that new advances in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine could one day make a replacement liver from a patient's own cells, or animal muscle tissue that could be cut into steaks ...
Jul 01, 2012
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DARPA develops technologies for aiding disaster relief
During natural or man-made disasters, the U.S. armed forces' rapidly deployable airlift, sealift, communication, and medical evacuation and care capabilities can supplement lead relief agencies in providing ...
Jun 27, 2012
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Controlling for the weather: Hedging increases firm value, new study shows
A highly debated topic in corporate finance is whether active risk management policies, such as hedging, affect firm value. New research from the University of Notre Dame and Stanford University shows that active risk management ...
Jun 20, 2012
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Dutch court rules against Apple in Samsung case
A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday that Apple has infringed on a patent held by South Korean rival Samsung and ordered the US computer giant to pay an unspecified amount of damages.
Jun 20, 2012
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Nano-pesticides: Solution or threat for a cleaner and greener agriculture?
Research is urgently needed to evaluate the risks and benefits of nano-pesticides to human and environmental health. Melanie Kah and Thilo Hofmann from the Department of Environmental Geosciences of the University of Vienna ...
Jun 20, 2012
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Doctoral dissertation: The success recipes of companies are context-dependent
One of the most central questions in marketing and strategic management is the following: Why do some companies outperform others? There is still only a partial understanding of what succeeding in business in different operating ...
Jun 20, 2012
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