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Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water

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This artist's concept illustrates a quasar, or feeding black hole, similar to APM 08279+5255, where astronomers discovered huge amounts of water vapor.

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Oracle Must Curb Android Damages Claim Vs. Google

Oracle has to lower its starting point for damages versus Google to $100 million, but it gets to interview Google CEO Larry Page to help the court determine whether Google willfully infringed on Java patents Oracle now owns.

Oracle received some bittersweet news July 21 in its patent infringement case against Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) over Android.

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MAVEN Mission Completes Major Milestone

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An artist's conception of the MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars.

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The Hidden Value of Social-Networking Data

There is a gold mine of information buried in social-networking data for companies that know where to look.

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Social-networking sites are ripe targets for companies to gain new business intelligence.

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Twisted Tale of our Galaxy's Ring

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In a strange twist of science, astronomers using the Herschel Space Observatory have discovered that a suspected ring at the center of our galaxy is warped for reasons they cannot explain.

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Smarter AIs Start to Read the Manual

Artificial intelligence has made great strides in solving particular problems, such as IBM's Watson, which learned to beat humans at the game Jeopardy. Unfortunately, dozens of human experts needed to read and digest rules of the game in order to code them into algorithms. Now a group at MIT wants to change the hand coding of algorithms by allowing an AI to read and digest the rules all by itself.

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Researchers are applying their new AI learning approach to Sid Meier's Civilization V.

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Visualization Analytics Writ Large

An 80 foot wide visualization display simultaneously tracks data streams from thousands of sensors to provide the real-time analytics necessary to balance a statewide electric grid, with telecommunications the next challenge.

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California ISO uses new 80-foot wide visualization display driven by Space-Time Insight's analytics.

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NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta

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NASA's Dawn spacecraft, illustrated in this artist's concept, is propelled by ion engines.

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'Carmageddon' Drivers Could Find Relief From Crowd-Sourcing GPS App

A major highway shutdown, ominously dubbed "Carmageddon," is about to happen in L.A., where local officials and news agencies fear the worst. A smart GPS app, however, could provide some relief for drivers by tracking traffic conditions and suggesting alternative routes in real time.

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Closed routes are highlighted in red.

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Desktop Virtualization Growing to $5B by 2016

Virtualization will seep into every aspect of business computing over the next five years, growing tenfold as recession cost-cutting fades and mobilization of the workforces increase.

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Virtualization enables business partners to provide more comprehensive solutions to new and existing customers, as well as allowing companies to optimize IT investments, infrastructure and resources.

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