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Scientists Identify 10 Breast Cancer Sub-types with DNA analysis

A big challenge in making this useful in the clinic will be robust classifiers.  If three different analysts each looked at this same data set,... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 22, 2012 at 12:02 AM EDT

Does Apple's Siri Threaten Google's Search Monopoly?

What about the Xbox? Don't count Microsoft out just yet. The Xbox gets the attention of lots of eyeballs for lots of hours and ms is starting to... (read full comment)  

Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:42 AM EST

With Chrome Ascendant, Mozilla Is a Dead Man Walking

Locked out of the mobile market Mozilla's real problem is not Chrome on the desktop, it is that an increasing share of all internet access is... (read full comment)  

Posted on December 4, 2011 at 3:53 PM EST

Exposing the Cost of Health Care

Is there even a set price for medical services? Many health care providers have negotiated different pricing with different payers. In... (read full comment)  

Posted on November 23, 2011 at 7:51 AM EST

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Beauty Now in the Eye of the Algorithm

Selection for diversity We all know the old chestnut, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it reflects an underlying truth that "beauty" is a... (read full comment)  

Posted on November 23, 2011 at 8:21 AM EST

Natural-Language Processing Makes Sense of Doctors' Notes

Yes, but ... The basic premise of electronic records analysis is that a data analyst or algorithm that has never seen the patient will be able to... (read full comment)  

Posted on August 24, 2011 at 9:06 AM EDT

Exploiting China's Coal While It's Still Underground

What is the long tern fire risk? This technology seems to involve igniting coal in situ. Some towns in Pennsylvania have suffered horrific... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 9, 2011 at 9:07 AM EDT

Chinese Solar Companies Thrive on Manufacturing Innovations

Entrepreneurship, IP and scale China has lots of great engineers, many of them US trained, but a dearth of successful entrepeneurs. Lack of IP... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:02 AM EDT

Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA

What is the big deal? Cell biology labs have been dealing with mycoplasma infections for decades. The idea that a few mycoplasma sequences might... (read full comment)  

Posted on June 23, 2011 at 5:36 PM EDT

How Android Security Stacks Up

Capabilities based security is a myth The problem with the Android capabilities based is that it is so easy to fool users into granting access. A... (read full comment)  

Posted on August 5, 2010 at 5:25 PM EDT

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