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New data compression method reduces big-data bottleneck; outperforms, enhances JPEG

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New discovery is rooted in physics and the arts

In creating an entirely new way to compress data, a team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has drawn inspiration from physics and the arts. The result is a new data compression method that outperforms existing techniques, such as JPEG for images, and that could eventually be adopted for medical, scientific and video streaming applications.

In data communication, scientific research and medicine, an increasing number of today’s applications require the capture and analysis of massive amounts of data in real time. (more…)

Abuse of Social Network sites: E-Safety for children

By Guest PostDecember 29, 2013Technologychild safe websites, cyber bullying, web surfing

Most parents will by now wonder how they can protect their children and direct them to child-safe websites. Fortunately a non-profit site, Quib.ly offers a forum where concerned parents, teachers and care-givers can seek out the advice of experts in the field of cyber technology as well as child development psychology. If you visit this site you may well find that your particular concern is shared by others. Experts in their respective fields will be able to steer you in the direction of child-safe websites and you will have the opportunity to share knowledge gained by parents in your position.
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Big data and how to use it

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UD Consumer Analytics and Industry Applications conference discusses big data

In the era of big data come big questions about how to use it. These questions and more were the backdrop of the recent Consumer Analytics and Industry Applications conference, put on by the University of Delaware’s Institute for Financial Services Analytics (IFSA).

“We are living in a big data world,” said IFSA director and professor of business administration, Bintong Chen. The institute is a collaboration between UD’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, the College of Engineering and JPMorgan Chase. (more…)

Made in IBM Labs: Advancing Privacy and Security in the Cloud

By Guest PostDecember 23, 2013Technologybreakthrough, client data, cloud, cloud computing, craig gentry, cryptography, des, encrypted information, fully homomorphic encryption, hmac, homomorphic encryption, ibm, ideal lattice, labs, made in ibm, optimization, original data, privacy, security, shai halevi

Patented cryptography invention enables unlimited analysis of encrypted data

ARMONK, N.Y. – 23 Dec 2013: IBM inventors have received a patent for a breakthrough data encryption technique that is expected to further data privacy and strengthen cloud computing security.

The patented breakthrough, called “fully homomorphic encryption,” could enable deep and unrestricted analysis of encrypted information —intentionally scrambled data — without surrendering confidentiality. IBM’s solution has the potential to advance cloud computing privacy and security by enabling vendors to perform computations on client data, such as analyzing sales patterns, without exposing or revealing the original data. (more…)

Smartphone users value their privacy and are willing to pay for it, CU-Boulder economists find

By Guest PostDecember 22, 2013Technologyconsumer apps, digital anonymity, online privacy, personal information, smartphone users

Average smartphone users are willing to pay up to $5 extra for a typical application—or “app”—that won’t monitor their locations, contact lists and other personal information, a study conducted by two economists at the University of Colorado Boulder has found. (more…)

What Could Graphene Mean For Your Future Smartphone?

By Guest PostDecember 19, 2013Technologyfoldable graphene shell, graphene, graphene revolution, smartphone batteries, smartphones

Graphene is the material of the future, it could even help us to achieve invisibility. So what could it mean for your smartphone?

Scientists, engineers and tech-addicts everywhere are getting very excited about Graphene. It may sound like the stuff you get in your pencils but this newly discovered material could help us enter an entirely new technological age. Work is already underway to make invisibility a possibility – all thanks to the wonders of Graphene. (more…)

IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives within Five Years

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IBM Predicts – in Five Years Everything will Learn

ARMONK, N.Y. – 17 Dec 2013: Today IBM unveiled the eighth annual “IBM 5 in 5“ (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.

This year’s IBM 5 in 5 explores the idea that everything will learn – driven by a new era of cognitive systems where machines will learn, reason and engage with us in a more natural and personalized way. These innovations are beginning to emerge enabled by cloud computing, big data analytics and learning technologies all coming together, with the appropriate privacy and security considerations, for consumers, citizens, students and patients. (more…)

New book ‘Going Viral’ explores nature, impact of Internet virality

By Guest PostDecember 16, 2013Technologygoing viral, internet meme, internet virality, new book, recipe for virality

How will we of the early 21th century be remembered? By our technological innovations, social movements and many wars, to be sure. (more…)

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