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Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in...

The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search so...
* Lucene Java, our flagship sub-project, provides Ja ...
* Droids is an intelligent robot crawling framework ...
* Lucene.Net is a source code, class-per-class, API- ...
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The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet... Since then, countless technological advancements have al... more efficient human computer interaction. Why then do w... outdated technology? Introducing Gmail Motion -- now you... with your b

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The most complete method is to upload the manifest file ...

Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intellig... patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and... social kind of data analysis.

MaPit is our database and web service that maps postcode... current or past administrative area information and poly... United Kingdom. It has been rewritten from the ground up... PostGIS, providing us with a large array of improvements... a lovely ad

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map un... when young Kiberans created the first free and open digi... own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete ... community information project.

NLS Historic Maps API: Historical Maps of Great Britain ...
This seamless historic map can be:
embedded in your own website
used for research purposes
... rdnance Survey maps, dating from the 1920s to the 1940s.

I have been enjoying Adam Hochschild’s To End All Wars... Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, which covers the Briti... War I. My favorite section details how the British resp... turned out they had a drastic shortage of binoculars, wh...
The Germans

I work on higher-order cognitive operations that disting ...

Launching in beta today, Google Cloud Connect is an add-... syncs documents, spreadsheets and presentations from Off... 2010 with the “Google cloud.” In other words, it tak... desktop and makes a backup copy in Google Docs, gives it... constantly

A core tenet of Buyosphere is a C2B (that’s consumer-t... communication flow. In other words, rather than business... gathering data on your behavior and pushing advertising ...
“At Buyosphere, you gather what you buy and own, a ...
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Did you know the emoticon is almost 30 years old? Twenty...
Fast-forward and the simple smiley has evolved — some ...
To mark this anniversary, we’ve taken an abridged look ...
1. The Olden Days
... Thumbnail image courtesy of Laihiuyeung Ryanne

You've heard of setting your phone on vibrate, but how a...
Originally uncovered by Unwired View, the patent shows a ...
Vibrations could be customized depending on the person c ...
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Is tech saturation good or bad for the modern teenager?
Arguments can be made either way, but there’s no debat ...
People aged 18-34 have an average of 319 online connecti ...
Pew also recently reported that 63% of teenagers text me ...
... to help or

This type of tattoo won't disappoint your mom. A health-... can be attached to your arm with a temporary tattoo. The... "tattoo" hides medical sensors that monitor your skin's ... sensors can detect and relay information about metabolic... exertion to

British Airways launched a new campaign called "Look Up,... want to take that advice to get the full experience.
A video ad in London's Piccadilly Circus features a youn ...

Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. In ... restricted the visibility of a user's personal informati... friends and their "network" (college or school). Over th...
This blog post by Kurt Opsahl at the the EFF gives a bri ...
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