Algorithm articles

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  LinkedIn unifies search functionality as it looks to promote news and content

  By Dante D'Orazio on March 25, 2013 01:05 pm + 5 comments

  LinkedIn has updated its website with a major revamp of its search function that unifies the Continue reading…

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  MRI fingerprinting detects diseases in minutes by their signature 'song'

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 19, 2013 05:54 am + 20 comments

  A new type of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) could enable doctors to detect a number of diseases Continue reading…

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  Wildly inappropriate T-shirts prompt a look at the history of randomly-generated products

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on March 4, 2013 11:08 am + 11 comments

  T-shirt producer Solid Gold Bomb coded a program to automatically create silkscreen slogans, market Continue reading…

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  Watch this: quadrocopters perform amazing pole-catching acrobatics

  By Sam Byford on February 21, 2013 09:43 pm + 29 comments

  Quadrocopters can do more than take part in elaborate dances — they're making the jump into Continue reading…

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  Police could look online using anti-terrorism tactics to find future shooters

  By Adi Robertson on December 21, 2012 12:54 pm + 23 comments

  Police are examining tactics similar to current anti-terrorism measures to find potential killers Continue reading…

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  Twitter algorithm can analyze the truthfulness of tweets

  By Sam Byford on December 16, 2012 06:55 pm + 11 comments

  While we've seen work on an algorithm that can predict trending Twitter topics before they happen, Continue reading…

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  Can an algorithm take down terror cells?

  By Kimber Streams on December 6, 2012 06:04 pm + 10 comments

  Paulo Shakarian, a professor at West Point's Network Science Center, has developed an algorithm Continue reading…

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  Are algorithms auto-completing us into censorship?

  By Justin Rubio on November 19, 2012 11:08 am + 26 comments

  As residents of the internet, we've all become accustomed to auto-correcting text fields and the Continue reading…

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  Reverse-engineered Twitter algorithm can predict trending topics before they happen

  By Adi Robertson on November 2, 2012 01:54 pm + 16 comments

  Researchers at MIT say they've found an algorithm that can tell what's going to be trending on Continue reading…

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  YouTube changes search to rank based on how long users watch videos, not clicks

  By Dante D'Orazio on October 12, 2012 04:43 pm + 70 comments

  If you have been searching for any YouTube videos today, you may have been seeing the results of an Continue reading…