The MDI Biological Laboratory is riding the growing wave of interest in citizen science with the development of a new, easily accessible mobile phone app to help community organizations track and analyze crowd-sourced data ...
Ecology
Jan 17, 2018
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Facebook is coming for your kids.
Internet
Dec 4, 2017
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says college students will soon be able to file their applications for federal student aid through a mobile app.
Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2017
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The United Nations helped launch a smartphone app Tuesday that allows users to "walk a mile in a refugee's shoes" by simulating the daily struggles of a fictional Rohingya Muslim who was forced to flee her home.
Software
Apr 25, 2017
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Climate researchers and weather forecasters get their rain data from a network of precipitation-sensing satellites that orbit Earth. iRain, a new mobile phone app developed by engineers at the University of California, Irvine ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 9, 2017
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EPFL is launching openfood.ch, a website that provides the public with data on more than 14,000 food products sold in Switzerland. The website's data set will be a real gold mine when it comes to developing applications and ...
Other
Nov 22, 2016
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Google wants to make digitizing your old photo prints as easy as opening an app.
Software
Nov 15, 2016
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A popular geosciences mobile app, developed by the University of Minnesota, just received a major upgrade. The free Flyover Country app now includes 53 new field trip guides for Colorado and surrounding states, including ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2016
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That's the question that Northeastern researchers, led by assistant professor David Choffnes, ask in new research that explores how free app- and web- based services on Android and iOS mobile devices compare with respect ...
Software
Sep 12, 2016
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Nintendo on Tuesday shot past Sony in market value after shares in the video game giant more than doubled following the release of its wildly popular Pokemon Go game.
Business
Jul 19, 2016
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