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Study from Microsoft Research in PNAS shows that when using public like data from Facebook you can build a whole profile about that person and can pretty accurately predict someone's race, religion and personality.

Study from Microsoft Research in PNAS shows that when using public like data from Facebook you can build a whole profile about that person and can pretty accurately predict someone's race, religion and personality.

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So be afraid off all these +Hello Kitty likers, they are instable 😉
http://goo.gl/AANnk

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Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior
Abstract We show that easily accessible digital records of behavior, Facebook Likes, can be used to automatically and accurately predict a range of highly sensitive personal attributes including: sexu…

Interesting read about the pros and cons about working from home (thanks +Filipe…

Interesting read about the pros and cons about working from home (thanks +Filipe…

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Interesting read about the pros and cons about working from home (thanks +Filipe Cadete for sharing this!) in the +The New York Times. In essence working from home promotes productivity and working at the office promotes creativity. 

It's exciting to see how big tech companies like Google/Facebook and now also Yahoo try to make life at campus as great as possible to sort of getting you hooked on getting to work. Also by limiting your desk space and closing doors at work to increase serendipitous encounters.  

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Interesting read about the pros and cons about working from home (thanks +Filipe Cadete for sharing this!) in the +The New York Times. In essence working from home promotes productivity and working at the office promotes creativity.

Interesting read about the pros and cons about working from home (thanks +Filipe Cadete for sharing this!) in the +The New York Times. In essence working from home promotes productivity and working at the office promotes creativity.

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It's exciting to see how big tech companies like Google/Facebook and now also Yahoo try to make life at campus as great as possible to sort of getting you hooked on getting to work. Also by limiting your desk space and closing doors at work to increase serendipitous encounters.

http://goo.gl/fpjLu

http://goo.gl/fpjLu

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TB vaccine takes a tumble
A leading candidate for a sorely needed new vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) has failed to protect children against the disease in a major clinical trial.
Published today in The Lancet, the results of the trial of the MVA85A vaccine show that it seems to have “no significant efficacy” against either TB or infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
The results are a major blow to the TB research community, as MVA85A had seemed highly promising as…