If your college textbook is available online, it’s probably a lot cheaper than the printed version. In fact, scanning books to put them online for sale sounds like a good business. Unfortunately, an advanced scanner costs $20,000, and of course there are copyright problems.
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Data.BSA.org has a free report from the Business Software Alliance all about big data. We learned that in the United Arab Emirates, new data tools are designing a building that produces more energy than it consumes. In Stockholm, data has been collected from taxis and analyzed to reduce travel time by 50 percent.
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DayofBirth.co.uk tells you what day of the week you were born on and gives your age as a number of days, hours, or seconds; should you care, it also tells you who was president when you were born. Remember: Wednesday’s child is full of woe. (Probably because of their poor Internet connection.)
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