Discussion: “Big Data” is one of the hype words being thrown out in the business world. Companies, such as Google, are trying to use all this data they are gathering to predict the future. One way Google is doing this is by using a Google data-aggregating tool called Google Flu Trends (GTF). This tool is… Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2014
The Deep Web you don’t know about
Discussion: Researchers say that the web you know about, such as Wikipedia and Facebook, only make up 1% of the World Wide Web. When you are searching for something on the web using Google, or another search engine, you are just scratching the surface of the Web. “The vast majority of the Deep Web holds… Read more »
This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes
Discussion: Spritz is a new reading game app, that is about to go public with Samsung’s new line of wearable technology. This new app is not like the reading game apps that have already hit the market. This app is different because it “manipulates the format of the words to more appropriately line them up… Read more »
Obama’s Trauma Team
Discussion: “How an unlikely group of high-tech wizards revived Obama’s troubled HealthCare.gov website.” The government spent $300 million creating a website that didn’t work, but these masterminds came to the rescue and fixed the website in a tenth of the time that it took to build it. And, in the process they helped give Obama… Read more »
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