GigaomMacmillan invests in “Google Docs for researchers” firm WriteLaTeX
The London startup’s product, Overleaf, lets researchers collaborate on scientific papers that use the LaTeX markup language. Read more »
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The London startup’s product, Overleaf, lets researchers collaborate on scientific papers that use the LaTeX markup language. Read more »
Facebook is constantly experimenting on its users by tweaking the newsfeed in both large and small ways, a former member of the company’s data science team confirms, and some of the… Read more »
Facebook(s fb)’s emotional manipulation study has shocked many people for its apparent breach of research ethics (700,000 subjects had no idea they were being manipulated), and it has raised the alarm… Read more »
A study manipulated the news feeds of hundreds of thousands of Facebook users in an attempt to show that emotional responses can be affected by the behavior of our social connections,… Read more »
Can we turn ordinary plants into sensors, in order to learn more about the environment? A bunch of European researchers with nearly $1.5 million in funding think it can be done. Read more »
Amazon Web Services, Gnip and two Australian research institutions have teamed up to track the emotions of tweets in near real-time and offer the data to the public via visualizations, downloadable… Read more »
Many traditional news outlets are happy to have “user-generated content” or citizen journalism for their breaking news reports, a Tow Center study finds — but most do a poor job of… Read more »
The Global Database of Events, Languages, and Tones is a growing trove of information about meaningful events that have happened across the world in the past three decades. Now, it’s available… Read more »
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that learns what’s happening in videos by piecing together the things it sees into a complete picture. It could prove meaningful as more companies look… Read more »
The Princeton research that used a disease model to suggest Facebook(s fb) would lose 80 percent of its users in 3 years deserved the hammering it got – it’s simply a… Read more »