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Your personal networks visualized as microbiological cells in Biologic - 1 views

  • Data exists in digital form, on our computers and spreadsheets, but the exciting part about data is what it represents in the real world. Bits are people, places, and things. This is especially true with social data from places like Twitter and Facebook, where ideas flow and people talk to interact with each other in different ways. It's not just retweets and likes. Bloom Studio, the folks who brought you Planetary, embrace this idea in their just released iPad app, Biologic.
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Pew: 'Smartphone-Dependents' Often Have No Backup Plan For Web Access : All Tech Consid... - 0 views

  • According to the study, nearly 1 in 5 Americans relies on a smartphone for accessing the Internet either because there isn't "any other form of high-speed Internet access at home" or because of a "limited number of ways to get online other than their cell phone." And 7 percent have neither broadband service nor other alternatives for going online other than their smartphone, a group Pew refers to as the "smartphone-dependent" users.
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PLOS Biology: Social Evolution Selects for Redundancy in Bacterial Quorum Sensing - 0 views

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    The accumulation of multiple, seemingly redundant, bacterial quorum-sensing systems is promoted by facultative cheating behavior; the strain with multiple systems cheats its single quorum-sensing system ancestor as a minority but returns to cooperation when in the majority.
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