Too dangerous to talk? Some cities explore 911 texting
With gunshots ringing out just feet away, Eddie Justice hid in a bathroom in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and frantically texted his mother for help.
With gunshots ringing out just feet away, Eddie Justice hid in a bathroom in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and frantically texted his mother for help.
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Jul 5, 2016
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A collaboration between two companies in Hungary and the UK has resulted in the inception of the first ever interactive text mining platform for chemists, overcoming difficulties with extracting information about chemicals ...
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Jun 6, 2016
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You might start seeing more ads when getting directions from Google's popular mapping service.
Internet
May 24, 2016
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Many Twitter users—and more importantly, the billions more who don't use Twitter—feel constrained by the company's somewhat archaic 140-
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May 17, 2016
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While much has been made about the dangers of texting and driving, less attention has been focused on the age-old distractions of being absent minded or upset while driving. A team of researchers from the University of Houston ...
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May 12, 2016
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French authorities have opened an investigation after a teenager allegedly live-streamed video of her suicide on the popular app Periscope.
Internet
May 11, 2016
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Readers like to read texts generated by computers, especially when they are unaware that what they are reading was assembled on the basis of an algorithm. This, at any rate, is the conclusion suggested by the results of an ...
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May 3, 2016
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When you add a smiley face to the end of a message, you may be saying more than you realise. Emoticons, faces formed from punctuation symbols such as :-), and emojis, picture symbols, are now common features of the way we ...
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2016
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Scholars have long debated how much of the Hebrew bible was composed before the destruction of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Judah in 586 BCE. While scholars agree that key biblical texts were written starting in the 7th century ...
Archaeology
Apr 11, 2016
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The phone company would like to sell its customers some video.
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Apr 6, 2016
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