IoT Early Warning System Helps Save People From Mudslides
Published By: Network World, 08/24/2016 >> View the Article
The Ad-Blocking Browser That Pays the Sites You Visit
Published By: Wired, 9/1/2016 Summary: The Brave web browser (released earlier this year) allows only ads that don't track users from site to site; it has now added a feature to record how much time users…
Twitter Has Deleted 235,000 Terrorist-Related User Accounts in the Past Six Months
Published By: ReCode, 8/18/2016 Summary: Twitter announced that it has increased the rate at which it is suspending accounts the service identifies as promoting terrorism, and is working on ways to block the same users from…
Only Some of @realDonaldTrump’s Tweets Are Actually Donald Trump
Published By: Scientific American, 8/18/2016 Summary: Data scientists used post metadata and patterns in post format to show that tweets from @realDonaldTrump come from different people, and sentiment analysis to show that the tweets from Trump…
The Best New Way to Read? Novels Told Through Text Messages
Published By: Wired, 8/18/2016 Summary: Stories told as a stream of text messages between the characters, delivered by story apps, are gaining in popularity (especially for YA horror/suspense). Texting has enabled the creation of a new…
The White House Releases Policy to Help Government Agencies Go Open Source
Published By: TechCrunch, 8/8/2016 Summary: The U.S.'s Federal Source Code Policy was recently revised to require that all custom code created or commissioned by government agencies must be available to all other agencies, and that 20%…
Paraplegics Take a Step to Regain Movement
Published By: Duke Today, 8/10/2016 Summary: Patients using brain-machine interfaces to control robotic prosthetics, along with virtual-reality devices that simulated moving their own limbs, were unexpectedly able to regain some actual control of their own limbs,…
Safer Air Travel: Existing Navigation Data Can Help Pilots Avoid Turbulence
Published By: Science Daily, 8/11/2016 Summary: Using standard data already collected by most airplanes, researchers are testing and refining turbulence-modeling algorithms that they believe will improve detection and prediction, so that pilots can avoid trouble spots.…
Cloud Innovations Signal the Future for Urban Mobility
Published By: CORDIS (European Commission press office), 8/9/2016 Summary: Countries in Europe are developing a unified cloud-based data platform, to be used by services that provide real-time information about transit and parking. Their goal is to…
Boosting Swimming Performance With Sound Data
Published By: Universität Bielefeld Uni.News, 8/4/2016 Summary: Researchers at Bielefeld University have created a system that translates water pressure data into sound, helping swimmers improve their their technique by getting live feedback about their movements. An…