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Whistle while you work

Mining for Corruption

15 Jun 2015

Researchers have developed a new technique that trawls the enormous amounts of public procurement data now available across the EU to highlight...

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Facebook's Infection

Computers using digital footprints are better judges of personality than friends and family

12 Jan 2015

Researchers have found that, based on enough Facebook Likes, computers can judge your personality traits better than your friends, family and even...

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Albert holds court

Meet your match: using algorithms to spark collaboration between scientists

21 Feb 2014

Scientists at Cambridge have developed a novel approach to enabling collaborations between researchers at conferences and academic meetings – by...

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swirl-vanes

Design optimisation by evolution

01 May 2009

By adopting the principles of natural selection, engineers are using survival of the fittest to breed better design solutions.

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