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Lucky Bacteria Strike It Rich During Formation of Treatment- - U8ONLINE.COM

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U8ONLINE - Online News and Videos. Lucky Bacteria Strike It Rich During Formation of Treatment-. In biology, we often think of natural selection and survival of the fittest. What about survival of the luckiest? Surprisingly, the researchers found that the individual bacteria that start the formation of micro-colonies have no special inherent qualities. As bacteria move across a surface, they leave trails composed of a specific type of polysaccharide, or long sugar molecules. Some of the bacteria remained...

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Intel's Krzanich pledges stronger mobile push in his first - U8ONLINE.COM

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U8ONLINE - Online News and Videos. Intel's Krzanich pledges stronger mobile push in his first. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich admitted Thursday in his first speech in that role that the company has been weak in smartphones and tablets, but aims to improve by advancing chip and manufacturing technologies. Intel's main focus is to produce more power-efficient chips, as it also adds features for connectivity and security, Krzanich said during a speech at the annual shareholder meeting in Santa Clara, California.

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How to Get More Followers on Twitter - U8ONLINE.COM

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U8ONLINE - Online News and Videos. How to Get More Followers on Twitter. What do all Twitter users want? Followers and lots of them. But unless you’re a celebrity, it can be difficult to build your Twitter audience (and even some celebs have trouble). Looking at a half-million tweets over 15 months, a first-of-its-kind study from Georgia Tech has revealed a set of reliable predictors for building a Twitter following. To our knowledge, this is the first longitudinal study of follow predictors on Twitter, ...

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Seeking fairness in ads - U8ONLINE.COM

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U8ONLINE - Online News and Videos. Seeking fairness in ads. Latanya Sweeney, Harvard professor of government and technology in residence, wants to add another factor to the mix, one that measures bias. As described in a paper published simultaneously in Queue and Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Sweeney described how such a calculation could be built into the ad-delivery algorithm used by Google. Fortunately, she said, the same techniques that uncovered that apparent bias can be...

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How Wearable Computing Will Change Everything, Including App - U8ONLINE.COM

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U8ONLINE - Online News and Videos. How Wearable Computing Will Change Everything, Including App. Listen, you tech-savvy, trend-resisting cynic you. I want you to stop dismissing wearable computing as a pointless, narcissistic fad. Wearable computing is not for people too lazy to look at their phones. It’s not a trendy toy for wealthy yuppies. And it’s not about joining Robert Scoble in the shower. And it will change Apple, too. Here’s how. Wearable computing will change the world just as smartphones did.

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Physical by smartphone becoming real possibility - U8ONLINE.COM

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U8ONLINE - Online News and Videos. Physical by smartphone becoming real possibility. It's not a "Star Trek" tricorder, but by hooking a variety of gadgets onto a smartphone you could almost get a complete physical - without the paper gown or even a visit to the doctor's office. Just plug the arm cuff into the phone for a quick reading. Put your fingers in the right spot, and the squiggly rhythm of an EKG appears on the phone's screen. This mobile medicine also might help doctors care for patients in new ...

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Congress demands answers on Google Glass privacy concerns - U8ONLINE.COM

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U8ONLINE - Online News and Videos. Congress demands answers on Google Glass privacy concerns. Tester units of Google Glass are here. And so are concerns about privacy not particularly surprising, considering that the Google goggles could allow folks to surreptitiously snap photos that people would prefer they didn't snap at all. As ABC News reports today, the latest line of questioning comes from the members of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, who are seeking details on Google's new hardware.

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Massive Online Master's Degree in Computer Science - U8ONLINE.COM

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U8ONLINE - Online News and Videos. Massive Online Master's Degree in Computer Science. Georgia Tech and Udacity are joining forces to offer an MSc in Computer Science to be delivered as a massive open online course with enhanced support services for students enrolled in the degree program. Gaining an MSc is time consuming and expensive. This initiative makes it more affordable both in terms of both time and money. In this video Charles Isbell, Senior Associate Dean, College of Computing at Georgia Tech e...

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SpiderOak encrypted cloud storage adds drag and drop support - U8ONLINE.COM

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U8ONLINE - Online News and Videos. SpiderOak encrypted cloud storage adds drag and drop support. The SpiderOak Client isn't the most immediately engaging application for a new user. Trailer, Dropbox will save backend storage space by only actually storing the trailer once. It can do this because even though your files are secured and encrypted from access by others, the Dropbox service itself is able to decrypt files in order to ensure it's only storing each unique set of blocks once. Oberman continued: ...