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Google News, which has long relied on automation to deliver news content from countless providers, has announced a twist in its algorithm: It will now recognize “featured” content among the tens of thousands of stories it delivers every day.

Google announced Saturday that news organizations can now add “standout” metadata tags to stories they’re proudest of — like exclusives, scoops and investigative projects — and the U.S. edition of Google News will consider including a “featured” label with the story on its news homepage and in search results. There’s no guarantee a story tagged this way will be featured, but Google’s algorithm will factor the tag into its decisions, the company said.

“We can showcase that standout piece of journalism in Google News by putting a ‘featured’ label in front of it,” said Google News product specialist David Smydra, who announced the new option at the Online News Association conference in Boston. “An

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During a speech at the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit, Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States and current Apple board member, stated that new Apple iPhones will be released next month. This well indicates that either there would be one new iPhone model on multiple carriers, or two new iPhone models are ready for the October release. There are also reports which tell that there would be more than 30 million iPhone 5 handsets with an upgraded antenna and other changes ready to be released. The release date of Apple iPhone 5 has been most probably confirmed to be October 4^th, but what about the specs of Apple iPhone 5?

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It is said that social networking site Facebook will officially launch the highly anticipated iPad special applications on October 4 to be held Apple iPhone 5 phone conference. In addition to Facebook version iPad application, it is anticipated Facebook also will release a revised version of the iPhone application, and may launch a mobile application market based on HTML5. ipad video converter is a good choice for you to use your ipad perfectly.

Apple’s core competence lies in a fresh, simple, elegant content consumption way to replace the previous complex and ugly way. Facebook is a similar pattern of positive into Apple’s market. Apple through the iPod, iPhone, Apple TV and iPad do this. And “complicated, ugly” is left to the outside world the impression that Facebook was.

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An interesting post from Mobot this morning on the five UK networks carrying the Nokia 700 handset (the first running Symbian Belle) has got me thinking. Let’s be clear, there’s no second source on this yet, but the central principle, that if the networks swing behind Nokia then the manufacturer has a solid future, is sound. Part of Nokia’s offensive both for Belle, S40 and the upcoming Windows Phone handsets has been, and will continue to be, to charm the mobile phone networks.

Selling the phone to the user

The reasons should be clear – if a network decided to swing fully behind a phone, then you can expect to see a huge amount of promotion to get that handset on the network and into users hands.

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When I discovered R.E.M., which on Wednesday disbanded, through Out Of Time as a 12-year-old schoolkid in 1991, it was the beginning of a long love affair with music made by some of the most creative, humble and well-intentioned people I could imagine.

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My ongoing appreciation of that band has tracked the evolution of online media.

When I first boarded the internet four years later, it was a revelation. I, like many others, instantly connected the two.

Usenet newsgroups, organised in to thousands of increasingly specific subject niches for all manner of interests, like rec.music.rem let fans around the world share news, views and interpretations of lyrics.

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Scientists from UC San Diego, the J. Craig Venter Institute and Illumina Inc., published their findings in the Sept. 18 online issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology. The breakthrough will enable researchers to assemble virtually complete genomes from DNA extracted from a single bacterial cell. By contrast, traditional sequencing methods require at least a billion identical cells, grown in cultures in the lab. The study opens the door to the sequencing of bacteria that cannot be cultured — the lion’s share of bacterial species living on the planet.

“This part of life was completely inaccessible at the genomic level,” said Pavel Pevzner, a computer science professor at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego and a pioneer of algorithms for modern DNA sequencing technology.

Pevzner, in collaboration with UC San Diego mathematics professor Glenn Tesler and computer science postdoctoral researcher Hamidreza Chitsaz, developed an algorithm that dramatically improves the performance of software used to sequence DNA produced from a single bacterial cell.

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