Researchers have developed software which could predict future events such as disease outbreak.
The prototype software uses a combination of archive material from the New York Times and data from other websites, including Wikipedia.
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News headlines used to predict future events →
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Atom smasher heading for two-year hiatus →
The world’s largest and most powerful atom smasher goes into a two-year hibernation in March, as engineers carry out a revamp to help it reach maximum energy levels that could lead to more stunning discoveries following the detection of a long-sought subatomic particle.
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Transplant Doc, Nobel Winner Murray Dies In Boston →
Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the world’s first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died at age 93.
Murray suffered a stroke at his suburban Boston home on Thanksgiving and died at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Monday, hospital spokesman Tom Langford said.
Since the first kidney transplants on identical twins, hundreds of thousands of transplants on a variety of organs have been performed worldwide. Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, who won for his work in bone marrow transplants.
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How Al Jazeera is Forging the Future of Social TV →
Everything was ready to go, but of course Osama bin Laden had to go and ruin it. The night before the debut episode of The Stream on Al Jazeera English, the al Qaeda leader was killed by U.S. Navy SEALS, forcing the producers of the news program to rethink the entire line-up at the last minute.
By the time the show aired, they had managed to schedule an on-air Skype interview with Sohaib Athar, who had unknowingly live-tweeted the beginning of the raid that killed bin Laden. Athar, who Al Jazeera tracked down via Twitter, gave his first on-screen interview on The Stream that Monday. Athar fielded questions not only from the show’s host, but from users across the globe via Twitter.
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Singularitarian’s New Look
As some of you may notice we have changed our theme to something more up-to-date. Our previous theme was not visible in theme editor to tweak any longer so it was time to move on. Like the new look?
We’ve also enabled commenting, +1, and to Tweet the story so hope everyone enjoys!
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Singularitarianisms Now on Google+ →
Come follow our new page on Google+
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New generation of Web analytics applies ‘big data’ to newsroom decisions →
New data tools, perhaps best described as Web analytics on steroids and with psychic powers, are making their way into newsrooms and changing the way that editors decide what stories to promote, where, and when.
It’s part of an emerging technology trend called “big data” — a process of gathering large, comprehensive, complex datasets and using advanced computer algorithms to visualize them, extract patterns, and use them to make decisions.
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Can Robots Run the News? →
To the chagrin of sports reporters everywhere, a team from Northwestern University’s engineering and journalism schools has created a program that automatically generates sports news stories. Stats Monkey uses the box score and play-by-play — even quotes, if they’re available online — to compile articles that follow one of the system’s pre-defined narrative arcs.
Source Mashable
