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TED Talks Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing.

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When you run experiments, there's inherently an element of the unknown. After all, we're trying to figure out things we don't know. And sometimes, things go wrong. FATALLY WRONG! Here are some of the most interesting, most intriguing, and sometimes most horrific, experimental deaths we've ever heard of. WARNING - some of these are gruesome AND vividly record man's inhumanity to man and/or ...

Over the years I've made a lot of mistakes when trying to start businesses. It's an obscene, almost irresponsible number of mistakes when I really look back

For the 17th consecutive year, IBM has been awarded more U.S. patents than any other company in the world, but non-U.S. companies for the second time collectively earned more than 50% of patents granted. Check out the full Top 10 list and take a guess on which company had more patents in 2009: Intel or Microsoft? If you guessed it was the brainy engineers at Intel, you win a prize—but for ...

It's been almost 525,600 minutes since we raised a glass to welcome the arrival of 2009 and in that time we've witnessed a daily avalanche of innovation which precipitated thousands of stories on Gizmag. Though popularity is rarely an accurate measure of quality (take Governments f'rinstance), we peered into the database to create the following list of the most read stories on Gizmag during ...

Sleepers come seemingly out of nowhere. They are the little films that confound expectations, attracting enthusiastic audiences that happily spread the word. Sometimes they come from the studio system, produced almost as an afterthought, but mostly they're produced well off the radar. On occasion, they upend the established order by opening at No. 1 at the box office. But more typically they ...

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Linux and Open Source <http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensou...> Linux and Open Source: Best of 2009 Date : December 22nd, 2009 Author : Selena Frye Category : General <http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensou...> Tags: Ubuntu <http://search.techrepublic.com.com/search...> , Fedora Project <http://search.techrepublic.com.com/search...> , Post ...

Unless you're enrolled at a top university or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you're probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world's greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet, and our list of 100 incredible lectures, you've now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world. General

There's only 14 sleeps 'til Christmas, but unless you're planning on discovering a large oil deposit or a long lost Spanish Galleon in the very near future, you may struggle to scrape together the funds required to tackle this little wish list. Each year we take a look back at the most over-the-top examples of emerging technology to have graced our pages in the past 12 months. So without ...

Two researchers think it's about time their discipline made a public commitment not to harm the patient they study: Earth. Like the Hippocratic oath - I vow to always: * Advise against any intervention into the functioning of Earth systems that I believe might harm humanity, the biosphere, atmosphere or other Earth systems upon which our well being depends. * Make clear to the public that ...

The Problem: America has a ravenous appetite for comfy toilet paper. The softer, the better. But what's good for the tush isn't good for the environment — soft toilet paper doesn't contain any recycled material and is often made from old-growth forests. A waste expert called soft toilet paper "a lot worse than driving a Hummer" in terms of environmental impact. The Solution: Europeans use ...

Author: Richard MacManus Publisher: ReadWriteWeb 2009 has seen a lot of Semantic Web and structured data activity. Much of it has been driven by Linked Data, a W3C project which gained momentum this ...

Well, we did it. Last night at the Web2.0 Expo we reviewed 100 of my favorite alternative search engines in 100 minutes! If you couldn't attend the talk, here is where you can get a copy of the updated list:

It's amazing the delicacies nature can produce, and what's even more amazing is how much humans will pay to eat them! Some of the most expensive foods are also the most ridiculous. From pooped-out coffee beans to moose milk cheese, HuffPost Green thought we'd take a look at some of the priciest foods, and find out why they cost so much. Check out this slideshow of the costliest digestibles out ...

From the brains behind Iran's Green Revolution to the economic Cassandra who actually did have a crystal ball, they had the big ideas that shaped our world in 2009. Read on to see the 100 minds that mattered most in the year that was.

Some celebrities' names are as outrageous as their stage costumes (Lady Gaga and Pink come to mind) but you may not realize just how many actors were born with names they shed or modified upon arrival in Hollywood. Whether to minimize (real or imagined) ethnic bias or just for vanity's sake, these big names are not the ones their parents gave them. Who changed for the better and who's just ...

With the coming release of James Cameron's sci-fi epic, moviegoers are focusing anew on digital characters. It's tough to fashion from mere pixels believable beings that walk and talk and seem to feel the same emotions of real humans and come off as something more special than special effects. Here are the virtual actors that lived up to their living colleagues, and those that fell flat on the ...

Here is a list to help anyone heading off on a vacation. Instead of seeing the usual tourist attractions, why not check out some of this more offbeat ones? There is something for everyone and you may even end up making new friends with equally strange taste. Starting with the Japanese Noodle Bath pictured ...

6 tech gifts billionaires are giving each other this year, like - Whether you call it Ping-Pong or Wiff-Waff, table tennis is the kind of game you can while away on your yacht (as long as you're not stuck in a Force Eleventy gale, although it might be a bit more fun, actually). This mirrored table by artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is just $55,000, and I suppose that, should you tire of thwacking a ...

Here is the Webby's list of the 10 most influential Internet moments of the decade: * Craigslist, the free classifieds site, expands outside San Francisco in 2000, impacting newspaper publishers everywhere * Google AdWords launched in 2000 allowing advertisers to target their customers with laser-sharp precision * Wikipedia, the free open-source encyclopedia, launches in 2001 and today boasts ...

4 reasons why V's motherships don't make sense So ABC's V is here (episode 2 airs tonight), reminding us for the zillionth time that gigantic, mile(s)-wide flying saucers are THE conveyance of choice for any kind of alien visitors. (See: District 9, Independence Day, the original V, Alien Nation, Close Encounters ...) The trouble is, aside from providing an excuse for awesome "reveal" shots ...

A survey called the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index reveals which states are happiest. The index includes questions about six types of well-being, including overall evaluation of their lives, emotional health, physical health, healthy behaviors (such as whether a person smokes or exercises), and job satisfaction.

10 Things Web Series Actors Should Know <http://ninetythrees.com/screeni...> We watch a lot of films and web series here in the Screening Room, but since we'll never manage to watch everything, every so often we try to reach into the community and find out what the filmmakers and creative types who produce all of this great content are watching. While ...

9 Things Web Series Producers Should Know <http://ninetythrees.com/screeni...> We watch a lot of films and web series here in the Screening Room, but since we'll never manage to watch everything, every so often we try to reach into the community and find out what the filmmakers and creative types who produce all of this great content are watching. ...

The year of Nicholas Felton in graphs and bars (and maps).

39 Strange But True Newspaper Headlines <http://ninetythrees.com/newspap...> We spent a lot of time on the gloom and doom surrounding the newspaper industry <http://ninetythrees.com/feature...> , but we can't forget that newspapers have brought us some of the funniest moments this side of media. Here are just 39 of them. ...

The 17 Cheesiest Lines In Movie History <http://ninetythrees.com/stories...> Above is a scene from Star Crash , Italy's homage to Star Wars . They dialed the cheese factor up to ten for this entire movie, but it's especially clear in this scene. At one point, I'm pretty sure the emperor-to-be forgets his line and is looking over to the cue cards for a ...