Too Much Digital Information
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Researchers conclude that the world generated 161 billion gigabytes of digital info last year. And there's barely enough room to store it all. By the Associated Press.
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A new report out of Hollywood suggests the data explosion could turn into data extinction through the loss of valuable digital content.
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The "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" goes online. Doing research becomes easier but community editing means the information may be less credible.
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Live Search Books rivals Google Book Search, but limits selection.
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Digital images that are billions of pixels in size are now becoming commonplace.
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Researching things on the web is an essential part of everyday business - but too often books and other printed sources get left behind.
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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Also: Sneaky DNA analysis to be outlawed. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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SEATTLE - Now that digital cameras have overtaken film cameras in sales, users are beginning to encounter a familiar problem -- what to do with the bulging image files and folders filling up computer hard drives?
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Though communications protections exist, the law is fuzzy regarding internet and e-mail activity. Watch out for the legalization of digital mind readers tracing internet users' thoughts and interests, and trampling privacy rights in the process.
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The search engine makes a deal with five libraries to scan and store their books online. Also: A judge rules Maryland's anti-spam law unconstitutional & hellip;.  Europeans join to make fourth most powerful megacomputer & hellip;. and more.
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People who use their computers to find information about their chronic disease often wind up in worse condition than if they had listened to their doctor, according to a University College London review of studies on Internet health.
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Online symptoms searches can be useful. They can also give you acute misinformation.
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Digital Rights technology built onto some My Book drives restricts users from sharing certain files.
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As part of its National Digital Library Program, the Library of Congress is collecting and preserving content created by bloggers. But it is having to be selective about what it saves.
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Also: Paul Allen project maps the brain. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.