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...released "stream computing" applications that allow businesses to look at and analyze huge amounts of data in real time. Describing the product, IBM said "System S is built for perpetual analytics - utilizing a new streaming architecture and breakthrough mathematical algorithms, to create a forward-looking analysis of data from any source - narrowing down precisely what people are looking for and continuously refining the answer as additional data is made available." The ability to have access to that kind of information will undoubtedly be valuable to governments, the financial industry, and large multinationals with thousands of retail outlets. The new software...
...Some include mash-ups of their own. Some are poems: “Of What is This Evidence?/Ought we, living underground, dare/To ask such questions of the Universe?/To search for the space that lies between?” It’s a style of speech, of stream-of-thought association—they might have called it “rapping” a few decades ago—to which Nesson himself is no stranger. Take this bit, posted to his blog after Olympic champion Michael Phelps was caught smoking marijuana at a party in South...
...they so choose, Patheos members can help set their own compass, customizing the site so they receive a stream of information relevant to their individual interests and, maybe, beliefs, à la Facebook. They can also contribute to the weekly debates via public discussion forums, which are monitored by both software programs and live editors to allow for free speech but not animosity. "Maybe the monopoly of clerical authority is threatened," says Brown, referring to a topic he'd like to address on Patheos. But in our diverse society, where people have increasingly been turning online for spiritual guidance, maybe...
...fully know how much the past week's global response - the travel advisories, the school closings, Mexico's move to all but shut down its capital city - may have helped reduce the extent of the disease's spread. It's easy to become inured to the CDC's unrelenting stream of advice on hygiene - on April 30, we actually had the President of the United States use a news conference to tell Americans to wash their hands more - but there is evidence that such elementary actions can be remarkably effective in slowing the spread of infectious disease. (Studies have shown...
...Ludwig says the client library that developers need to build Facebook-specific Air apps has been downloaded 2,500 times in the past three weeks - presumably because Facebook has been getting developers on board for the Open Stream initiative just announced...