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Data-Crunching Program Guides Santa Cruz Police Before a Crime - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • But the presence of the police officers in the garage that Friday afternoon in July was anything but ordinary: They were directed to the parking structure by a computer program that had predicted that car burglaries were especially likely there that day. The program is part of an unusual experiment by the Santa Cruz Police Department in predictive policing — deploying officers in places where crimes are likely to occur in the future.
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    But the presence of the police officers in the garage that Friday afternoon in July was anything but ordinary: They were directed to the parking structure by a computer program that had predicted that car burglaries were especially likely there that day. The program is part of an unusual experiment by the Santa Cruz Police Department in predictive policing - deploying officers in places where crimes are likely to occur in the future.
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How Much Farther Will Home Prices Fall? - Daniel Indiviglio - Business - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    An update of Rober Shiller's famous chart showing value of home prices over more than 100 years with predictions extended to guestimate how much further home prices have to fall to get back to the historical average. 
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SocialFlow Company Blog - Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweet - 0 views

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    Before May 1st, not even the smartest of machine learning algorithms could have predicted Keith Urbahn's online relevancy score, or his potential to spark an incredibly viral information flow. While politicos "in the know" certainly knew him or of him, his previous interactions and size and nature of his social graph did little to reflect his potential to generate thousands of people's willingness to trust within a matter of minutes. While connections, authority, trust and persuasiveness play a key role in influencing others, they are only part of a complex set of dynamics that affect people's perception of a person, a piece of information or a product. Timing, initiating a network effect at the right time, and frankly, a dash of pure luck matter equally.
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The Future of the Smartphone: Holograms & Folding Screens - 0 views

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    I think the second vision could actually come to pass. 
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The future of the Internet: it's in the app | ZDNet - 0 views

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    ""All of these businesses can shift strategy," Colony said. "Every 10 years in tech, there's a big vendor who we think is dying who makes a big comeback. In 1980, it was Intel, moving from DRAM to microprocessors. In 1990, it was IBM [from hardware to services]. In 2000, it's Apple." In 2010, Microsoft is a candidate for reinvention, Colony said. And if history is any lesson, it will require a change of leadership."
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SMD want to mass produce flexible bendable AMOLED Displays in 2012 - 0 views

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    Samsung want to introduce smartphones, wrist watch with these flexible displays in 2012. To reach that goal Samsung Mobile Display sets up a joint venture with Ube Kosan.
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