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The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be
Stephen Elop, Microsoft Business Division President Microsoft Predictions for the future generally come in two flavors: blighted hellscape or techno-utopia. Last week, Microsoft Business Division...
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Twitter Buzz Predicts Box-Office Success Better Than Hollywood Stock Exchange
Twitter Box Office Prediction Will titans clash for "Clash of the Titans?" Let's ask Twitter Tapping into the wisdom of the crowds to forecast future trends has served prediction markets well for...
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Europe's Living Earth Simulator Could Forecast the Future
Living Earth Simulator Could the Google Earth models of today herald tomorrow's socioeconomic forecasting machine? Google Earth Blog A world rife with burst economic bubbles and the threat of global...
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Future-Predicting Search Engine Reveals Some of the Analytical Tricks Inside...
Searching the Future Recorded Future Remember Recorded Future, the future-predicting information analysis company that made a splash earlier this year when it scored investments from both Google and...
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Underground Radon Detectors Could Forecast Earthquakes Days Before They Happen
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Study Shows Some Evidence Of Human Precognitive Powers
Paul the Predicting Octopus Perhaps Paul was simply very in tune with his cognitive abilities. Mbz1 via WikimediaIt's long been regarded as pseudo-science or simple lore, but precognition – that is,...
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Supercomputer Reads the News to Successfully Forecast World Events
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The Santa Cruz Experiment: Can a City's Crime Be Predicted and Prevented?
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Even the Maya Didn't Think the World Would End in 2012
Mayan Cave Paintings Photograph by Tyrone Turner, National Geographic National Geographic has a new feature up today in which they discuss the new finding of a cave in the midst of an unexplored Mayan...
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Researchers Model and Accurately Predict War Zone Attacks Using WikiLeaks Data
A U.S. Electronics Warfare Technician Wikimedia Commons The WikiLeaks info-dumps, as a lot of the public realized as they started to be released, contained a whole lot of info--both genuine nuggets of...
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IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell, Within The Next Five...
Computers With A Sense Of Taste Will Help Us Eat Smarter IBM At the end of each year, IBM releases its "5 in 5"--five technology predictions that IBM researchers foresee coming to fruition within the...
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Take This Quiz To Find Your Likelihood Of Dying By 2023
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How To Predict A Lifetime Of Diseases
Pathways to Gout From Jensen et al., "Temporal disease trajectories condensed from population-wide registry data covering 6.2 million patients," Nature Communications, 2014 Doctors have long suspected...
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Spoiler Alert: Statistician Predicts Future Chapters Of 'Game Of Thrones' Novels
Game Of Thrones Characters Home Box Office Desperate for details as you wait for the next installment in Game of Thrones? You're in luck. In what may be the first mathematics paper to include a...
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Autonomous Cars May Change Our Lives In Unexpected Ways
One of the test vehicles for Google's Self-Driving Car project. In the future, we may not be dealing with the hassles and frustrations that come with driving cars everyday. Autonomous automobiles can...
View ArticleEven the Maya Didn't Think the World Would End in 2012
National Geographic has a new feature up today in which they discuss the new finding of a cave in the midst of an unexplored Mayan megacity--a cave with very particular glyphs on the walls. Those...
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The WikiLeaks info-dumps, as a lot of the public realized as they started to be released, contained a whole lot of info--both genuine nuggets of military action and wartime…
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At the end of each year, IBM releases its "5 in 5"--five technology predictions that IBM researchers foresee coming to fruition within the coming five years. These…
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A new mortality index calculates people's chances of dying in the next 10 years if they're over 50. This index is not for you, the index's lead creator, a physician at the University of California,...
View ArticleBrain Scan Predicts Whether Convicts Will Re-Offend: Welcome To The Sci-Fi...
Researchers at the Mind Research Network in New Mexico--a non-profit, partially government-funded neuroscience facility--have discovered a way to predict whether released convicts will return to their...
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