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Picture This: Smarter Data

Visualization is the next important frontier for IT and business pros.

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Full Monty: The Allosphere lets researchers literally climb inside their data to explore in 3D.

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Keeping Pace With the Exabytes of Medical Data

The overwhelming abundance of health data is prompting the development of smarter health analytics integrated with cloud computing to quickly sift out the nuggets of knowledge that help patients.

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Smart applications like the free AsthmaMD help patients create diaries that caregivers can access to make sure directions are being followed and medications are being taken on time.

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Smarter Organics-Based Displays Provide Visual Realism

Unparalleled visual realism is being created by smarter electronic displays using organics, as demonstrated by the new spherical mega-display in Japan.

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The world’s largest globe, covered with over 10,000 organic displays, hangs 60 feet above the lobby floor in Tokyo's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.

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Smart-City-in-a-Box Solution Aids Timely Decision-Making

The IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities gives cities of any size a grand view of decision-making information across city departments and agencies. Leveraging built-in analytics, managers can then better anticipate problems, respond to crises and manage resources.

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The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority has used smart meters and analytics to quickly identify problems such as water main breaks.

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Jupiter's Youthful Travels Redefined Solar System

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Not long after Jupiter formed, it got pulled slowly toward the sun, carried on currents of swirling gas. Saturn also got pulled in, and when the two giant planets came close enough to each other, their fates became linked. Their sun-bound death spiral came to a halt when Jupiter was about where Mars is now; then the pair turned and moved away from the sun. The researchers who developed this model of the early solar system call it the "Grand Tack," a reference to the sailing maneuver.

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Cloud Computing Expands Reach with iDataCenters

Around the world, data centers are popping up to address the continued expansion of cloud services into mainstream computing, and the latest convert is the same company that brought you iPods, iPhones and iPads.

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The new DuPont Fabros data center in Santa Clara, Calif., will likely house Apple's new family of cloud-computing services.

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Smarter Apps Harness Dual Touch Screens

Multipane apps are enabling a tabletlike experience on smartphones. This is done through touch-enabled functions that are activated from one touch screen, with results displayed on the other touch screen.

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The second dual screen smartphone, the S2, will debut later this year from Sony.

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Five Hot Topics in Medical Technology

Improvements in optical imaging, e-health and cloud computing are just some ways in which the health care industry relies on advancing technologies. Here are five medical technologies experts predict to be hot topics in the coming years.

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NJIT Professor Atam Dhawan predicts that point-of-health solutions, optical imaging, and other technologies will drive medical advances over the next few years.

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Technology Brings Digital Memories To Grave Sites

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Dave Quiring Jr. inherited Quiring Monuments from his father 43 years ago. He points to the QR codes he has attached to the gravestones of his father and mother at their family plot in Seattle's Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park.

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Possible Pyramids Discovered From Space

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A satellite image shows a field of what may be buried pyramid sites in Egypt.