links for 2008-11-18
Posted by del.icio.us bot at November 18th, 2008
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We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Of course, not every person who searches for "flu" is actually sick, but a pattern emerges when all the flu-related search queries from each state and region are added together. We compared our query counts with data from a surveillance system managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and discovered that some search queries tend to be popular exactly when flu season is happening. By counting how often we see these search queries, we can estimate how much flu is circulating in various regions of the United States.
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A one-eyed San Francisco artist wants to replace her missing eye with a Web cam - and tech experts say it's possible.
(tags: future technology transhumanism art weird)
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India's prohibition on researching phone-hacking means that only terrorists and crooks get to know how this stuff works, while the cops sit around scratching their asses, muttering, "How'd they do that?"
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His four-year old daughter Samantha, whom everyone knows as "Tiger," piped up from the other side of the table: "Daddy, where's your phone?"
"What do you mean, where's my phone?" She explained that she'd overheard the question. Why wasn't he just looking up the answer on his phone?
Out of the mouths of babes. Vic said that he realized in that moment that the era of the PC was over, and that the future belonged to cloud applications accessed via phones.
(tags: technology wireless internet future culture)
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“To compete today, you can't offer the old one-size-fits-all approach to news,” he said. “The challenge is to use a newspaper's brand while allowing readers to personalize the news for themselves and then deliver it in the ways that they want.”