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Remember the "pre-cog" cop-things in Minority Report, able to figure out who was going to commit a crime before they committed it? If that's ever going to happen it looks

With a product as ubiquitous as Facebook, the public has raised a number of privacy-related concerns including optional settings, privacy policies and data mining. In the past, ReadWriteWeb covered Facebook's

Yahoo! owned MyBlogLog is stepping into dangerous waters with a new experiment in mobile presence tracking through Bluetooth. Demonstrated at the eTech conference today, m.mybloglog.com says it allows users to:

The University of Washington has announced two new research projects that will utilize cloud computing platforms from Internet companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon and IBM. According to the press

Google's breadth of services is truly awesome and the amount of information the company touches concerning our lives and world can sometimes feel downright frightening. While almost no one takes

In their demo video, indicee refers to "accounting's ERP black box," a not so subtle remark about the challenges facing the average business user when trying to draw knowledge from

Sandy Pentland, a researcher at MIT whose work has received funding from Nokia, is working on processing more than 350,000 hours of data collected from peoples' cell phones. More than

The Daily is back, now that I'm over my jet lag :-) - Scoble: I’m not an edge case (If you listen carefully, you'll hear me whoop near the end

Machines can do wonderful things. Side by side with the rise of a new world of publishers, the computer scientists of the world are cranking it up as well -

Tom Tague from Thomson Reuters' OpenCalais team did a keynote speech today at SemTech in San Jose. His presentation was a wonderful wrapup of current semantic technology trends, and what