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Google Flu Trends Resorts To Actual Data Because It Got It Wrong
Remember how excited everyone was about Google Flu Trends last year when it confirmed all of our deepest and darkest fears that we were doomed to a winter of misery? Apparently, using peoples’ neurotic self-diagnoses isn’t the most accurate way to track disease. So now, Google has decided to introduce a “new” flu-tracking engine. The…
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A Hacked Lamp Turns Multiple Mobile Devices Into A Single Giant Display
How many mobile devices do you carry with you on a daily basis? A couple of smartphones, and maybe a tablet? When you get to work, that makes for quite a few displays floating around, and researchers at MIT have come up with software that can let them all function as one giant touchscreen, no…
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Scientists Produce Rounded Crystals That Could Lead To 3D-Printed Pills
Taking inspiration from the microscopic rounded structures that creatures like starfish naturally grow to improve their limited vision, researchers at the University of Michigan have succeeded in artificially creating smooth facet-less crystals in the lab that have the potential to revolutionise everything from solar panels to LEDs.
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New Li-Ion Batteries Charge 70 Per Cent In 2 Minutes, Last For 20 Years
A team of researchers in Singapore have developed a next generation lithium-ion battery that can recharge a battery to 70 per cent in just two minutes. That means it would charge an entire electric car in just 15 minutes. And here’s the kicker: it lasts over 20 years.