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Ever wanted to know which words you most commonly use in your Facebook status updates? What about the most common names of your friends and where they live? With Wolfram Alpha, all this and more is now possible.

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Not sure what you are up to tomorrow? Well a British research group seems to think they’ll know even if you don’t. They’ve written proof of concept software that tracks your movements via your phone and combines that with social interaction data to predict where you’ll be, even if it’s a deviation from your normal routine.

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Big Data

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Social is all about conversations, right? Wrong. Conversations are out. Big Data is in. You heard it here first.

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Given recent breakthroughs in DNA sequencing technology and the work of a bioengineer and a geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, it is now possible to backup 700 terabytes of data into a single gram of DNA.

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Mint.com offers a free service that is great at helping you manage your personal finances, but it comes at a cost.

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