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The next 'American Idol'? Ask your computer

Could a computer pick the next “American Idol”? The next Ludacris or Madonna?

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Is it safe to eat sushi?

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From ranking blogs to predicting posture

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The 3-D renderings were generated by applying an iterative algorithm to a sphere. The same calculation is applied over and over to the sphere's points in three dimensions. More Articles

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Red Bend, a VC-backed mobile phone software developer, is taking Google to court over alleged infringement of a patent it holds.

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Pete Cashmore of Mashable writes that searches on google for "Michael Jackson died" returned the top entry as the 2007 death of an author named Michael Jackson.

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Forget LED thumb-pad identification devices, complex retinal laser scanning, or even computerized iris recognition, the way forward for biometric validation is a quick X-ray snapshot of a person's knees, according to a report published in the International Journal of Biometrics.

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FAST-moving balls can appear as blurry streaks in photographs and video stills. That is a problem for commentators examining disputed line calls and coaches studying how well golfers and table-tennis players control balls.

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A MATHEMATICAL technique for studying disorder in quantum systems could improve internet keyword searches. It is able to spot significant patterns in large data sets such as web pages and text documents, and may even be adaptable to genome analysis.

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Google has now added a "searches relate to:" selection at the bottom of a search's results page. These are, in effect, searches that relate keywords in a query to completely different keywords that have a semantic connection. More Articles

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Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results.

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As anyone who has had the pleasure of doing web design and development through marketing agencies knows, Flash tends to be wildly popular among clients and wildly unpopular among, well, pretty much everyone else.

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The complex algorithm which bats employ to identify plants could make for the most advanced facial recognition software yet.

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Google Operating System points out something interesting in Google's algorithm recently: a preference in favoring recent content.

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Have you ever wondered what it really takes for a story submitted to Digg to get to the home page? Or why a certain story—even a really good, social media friendly story—never got to the home page? I'm frequently asked the question, "Hey, my story has [number] of Diggs but it …

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Using a problem-solving method called the Cascades algorithm, Carlos Guestrin, assistant professor of computer science and machine learning, and his students compiled a list of the best 100 blogs to read to find the biggest news on the Web as early as possible, (blogcascades.org).

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In the brave new world of online media, fortunes can be won and lost on the whim of Google's key search algorithm. And when, without warning, Google tweaked that mathematical formula this week, there was panic on the world wide web.

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IN the 12th century A.D., when the Arabic treatise "On the Hindu Art of Reckoning" was translated into Latin, the modern decimal system was bestowed on the Western world — an advance that can best be appreciated by trying to do long division with Roman numerals.

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Julio Hernández (Astillero) of La Jornada (Mexico City) "reveals" "The Real Results of the Presidential Election" of July 2, 2006 in Mexico.

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An algorithm that helps you predict whether a player is good or has just been lucky and vice versa

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The Google Algorithm-Secret or Simple?

Could it be that the almost godlike search engine , Google's Algorithm could be this simple yet devilishly tricky that implementing it becomes somewhat of a BlackArt as someone I know referred to it.

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Have you ever made a profit from a catering business or dog walking? Do you prefer to work alone or in groups? Have you ever set a world record in anything? The right answers could help get you a job at Google.

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It appears that Digg has changed their stance towards their 'economy'.

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A couple of months ago I thought the new Netscape was doomed. Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc.

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Some of the generals in Digg.com's army of volunteer news readers are in revolt over new abuse controls that could undermine their influence on the site.

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A University of New South Wales PhD student by the name of Ori Alon has crafted a search engine algorithm that attracted interest from the like of Google, MSN and Yahoo.

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Google has bought an algorithm from an Israeli student studying in Australia.

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When Cornell physicist Veit Elser attempted to demystify an esoteric imaging problem for biologists, he had no idea his solution would also help subway riders and break room loiterers around the world figure out those challenging, Sudoku puzzles.

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