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Design web pages to minimize energy consumption - Dr. Angela Nicoara in webcast happening now

2013/05/24 -- Robert Coli

2013/05/24 -- Kais Ahmed

2013/05/24 -- Robert Coli

2013/05/24 -- Robert Coli

In George R.R. Martin’s masterful series, A Song of Ice and Fire (currently an HBO television show, Game of Thrones), many characters in the fantasy world of Westeros create goals, make plans, maneuver people and events toward the goal they want, and eventually realize their goal. It’s kind of like project management, but with more entrails.

With the first phase of Microsoft's Xbox One reveal complete, the company now looks ahead to E3 where it plans to give gamers a more thorough look at the upcoming console. Polygon is today reporting that there are two major features of Xbox One that weren't shown off in Redmond this week: Skype-based remote play and the new Kinect's ability to initiate two-way conversations with users. According to the report, the Siri-like feature will enable Xbox One players to carry on back-and-forth dialogues with Kinect. The console will speak up when it notices an unfamiliar player in the room, for example, requesting a new user's name before automatically setting up their local profile. We've previously reported on Xbox One's vastly improved... Continue reading…

as the subject states, does findandmodify block the entire instance just the database it's issued upon ?

2013/05/24 -- Hiller, Dean

The SciBite API provides access to SciBite’s real-time drug discovery search engine that combs developments in biotech and pharma. By tracking patents and clinical trials around the globe, scientific news, biomedical reagents and even biomedical job postings, SciBite provides unparalleled intelligence on drugs. Now all that is available for integration through its API. Acording to SciBite, its REST API (that returns JSON, XML and text), “…allows informaticians to access all of our data for their own data mining activities. Perform wide ranging queries to interrogate our semantically tagged news database. Find and mine new connections between drugs, companies, targets and indications. Access our trend analysis and user-ranking data to find the most critical resources.” This intelligence gathering is an old tactic catapulted to new uses with new technology. During World War II, a US intelligence unit was assigned to reading German newspapers as a means of understanding the enemy’s game plan. SciBite isn’t accessing “enemy” information, of course. But like that earlier effort, it concentrates on publicly available information–information that might make you wonder, gee, how can we gain an edge from looking at data that is available to everyone? Intelligence officials during the war were reportedly astounded by what they could learn. Today, SciBite offers the same panoptical scouring of data ranging across the entire fields of drugs and biotechnology, made possible by replacing human news readers with web crawlers searching databases. In offering an API, SciBite further magnifies this tried and true technique of analysis by putting the ability to manipulate it in the hands of those who can do that most effectively–its users. Sponsored byRelated ProgrammableWeb Resources SciBite API Profile