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BigQuery Gets Bigger and Better with Batch Processing and Excel Integration
Google’s BigQuery has just received a major new update with not one, but two new features that add more functionality to the popular data set analysis tool. The updates include a new batch-processing feature that allows users to schedule queries that are less time-sensitive, while the tool can now be integrated with Microsoft Excel. BigQuery ...
Researchers Develop Method for Making Atomic Electronics
Electrical engineers have already achieved some pretty amazing feats. The integrated circuits used in everything from computers to coffee makers are incredibly slim these days, allowing us to develop a new breed of electronic gadgets that includes everything from every day smartphones, to more minuscule devices like the Picotux (the world’s smallest PC, measuring just ...
The Absurdity of Patent Trolls
Seriously, when will all of this patent BS end? Notwithstanding all the Apple-Samsung nonsense lately, Gigaom.com is now reporting news of yet another troll hoping to capitalize on America’s nonsensical patent laws to extort millions of dollars from some of the country’s top tech companies. The troll in question is Scott Moskowitz, owner of the ...
Craigslist Gets With The Picture; Adds OpenStreetMap To Real Estate Listings
Craigslist has just been given a cartographic facelift of sorts; it’s now embedding maps to help users easily locate real estate listings on its Portland, Oregon and San Francisco websites. Unsurprisingly, the new maps are not Craigslist’s own creations. A quick look over their sites tells us that the classified listings service is hardly the ...
Using Social Media To Spot A Killer
Psychopaths aren’t that easy to spot. Those with a taste for committing violence against others are often extremely intelligent people, and on the face of it they will come across as being friendly, you might even say charming, the first time you meet them. There’s just no telling who is a psycho and who isn’t, ...
Rackspace Acquires Mailgun For OpenStack Integration
Hot on the heels of a number of advances for the OpenStack community, including the news that VMware is all set to join up with the foundation and the release of Piston Cloud’s new, simplified version of the open source platform, Rackspace has just announced a brand new acquisition, snapping up San Francisco-based Mailgun. Mailgun, ...
Big Data Wars: Using Predictive Analytics in Afghanistan’s War Zones
If ever there’s an argument in favor of Julian Assange releasing thousands of highly classified US documents onto the web, then surely this it. By using previously secret data supplied by WikiLeaks, a team of researchers has taken predictive analytics into a war zone in an attempt forecast where and when battles might take place. ...
China’s Dating App Momo Proves Attractive To Investors
Dating is a serious game in China, with social and cultural factors dictating that, for the most part, women place equal if not more importance on material gain rather than good, old fashioned romance. But as the country modernizes and embraces western values more, it’s no longer a game that everyone wants to play. For ...
Big Data Tells You What To Do In A Hurricane
If you happen to live in Louisiana, Alabama or Mississippi, you could be forgiven for waking up slightly alarmed this morning at the news that Tropical Storm Isaac is heading your way, with experts predicting it will become a full-blown hurricane when it makes landfall on Tuesday night. But how worried do you really need ...
Samsung’s Galaxy Player 5.8: Biggest Media Player Yet, Biggest Waste Of Space
So far it’s business as usual for Samsung in the aftermath of its controversial court defeat to Apple last week. Seemingly undeterred, the Korean electronics firm has just announced the release of its whopping new Galaxy Player 5.8