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Millions of Cab Rides Over One Year Paint a Portrait of New York City Each year, millions of New York City Yellow Cabs are hailed and jumped into. The glorious massiveness of this data means that when visualized in aggregate there is an emergent quality to cab rides that paints with a brush loaded with…

Cost of living: The purchasing power of a dollar in every state While a dollar bill looks and feels the same all over the United States, its value is often very different depending on where it is spent. WELCOME TO THE AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE OF THE FUTURE How British supermarket Ocado is using robots to make…

Blockchain Is Gaining Ground in Video-Streaming. Here’s Why. Video-streaming is poised to play a major role in the coming Blockchain world: As online content has exploded, video-streaming has become the de facto way to watch movies and videos online. It’s also led to the “cut the cable cord” movement. Blockchain will enable this trend. How…

Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web  It is a collection of iconoclastic thinkers, academic renegades and media personalities who are having a rolling conversation . How Big Data Is ‘Automating Inequality’ For the poor, she argues, government data and its abuses have imposed a new regime of surveillance, profiling, punishment, containment and exclusion,…

 Think Tank: The Case for Hiring a ‘Digital Anthropologist’ Digital anthropology as an area of study refers directly to the relationship that exists between humans and digital-era technology, and studying how people interact with technology. ‘Urban Mining’ of E-Waste 13x Cheaper Than Mining Virgin Metals  Newly published research shows that the revenue from selling metals recovered…

Industrial Green Spatial Pattern Evolution Of The Yangtze River Economic Belt In China We measured the industrial GTFP (Green Total Factor Productivity) and analyzed its spatial pattern evolution. Results showed the subprime mortgage crisis had a significant effect on the industrial green spatial pattern evolution and lead to a different spatial pattern before and after…

4D Printing Could Transform Wire Processing 4D printing is an emerging technology that allows 3D-printed components to change their shape over time after exposure to heat, light, humidity and other environmental triggers. Neo4j announces new data visualization platform alongside Neo4j 3.4 This is a data visualization tool that is designed with non-technical users in mind.…

Interactive Map Explores the Literal Meanings of 190 Global City Names On the Go Tours, have taken a look at the names of over 190 global cities and given their literal translations. The results are an interesting look at what inspires city names around the world. These East Asian cities are leading the way for…

SMART WOOD: BIO-ENGINEERING TREES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES Not all trees can do all things equally well. Scientists at North Carolina State University have devoted the last 10 years studying the biological triggers that determine the characteristics of trees as they grow. With brain-scanning hats, China signals it has no interest in workers’ privacy Chinese employees…

These 15 immigrants became millionaires and billionaires after coming to the US Through a combination of ambition, hard work, skill and luck (and, in several cases, a knack for computer science) many immigrants living in the US, such as Elon Musk (Tesla), Sergey Brin (Google), and Pierre Omidyar (eBay) have risen to be some of the…