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Yunseo Choi won first place Wednesday in this year's Regeneron Science Talent Search STEM competition. Society for Science hide caption
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Facebook has become so powerful that, for some people, having a Facebook account is more important than a driver's license. But when you lose that account, there's no recourse. Lily Padula for NPR hide caption
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Quid found 228,912 English-language stories in the news and on the blogs about Clinton's health between Sept. 12 and Oct. 12. Quid hide caption
Pundits Vs. Machine: Who Did Better At Predicting Campaign Controversies?
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Quid, a data analytics firm, uses proprietary software to search, visualize and analyze text. Quid hide caption
Pundits Vs. Machine: Predicting Controversies In The Presidential Race
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Police crime tape marks the scene where a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed and an 18-year-old man was wounded in April in Chicago. The grim milestone of 500 homicides already passed this year in Chicago. Joshua Lott/Getty Images hide caption
In Effort To Curb Violence In Chicago, A Professor Mines Social Media
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Words classified according to their gender, as the word embedding sees it. Words below the line are words that (generally) should be gendered, while words above the line are problematic if gendered. Adam Kalai hide caption
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The algorithms that serve up what you like can often create closed loops of their own, packed only with people who agree with you already. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images hide caption
The Reason Your Feed Became An Echo Chamber — And What To Do About It
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Facebook's Moments app uses facial recognition technology to group photos based on the friends who are in them. Amid privacy concerns in Europe and Canada, the versions launched in those regions excluded the facial recognition feature. Facebook hide caption
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Daniel Craig plays James Bond in the film Casino Royale. Dramatis, a computer program, can detect suspense from this scene and rates it even higher as the plot thickens. MGM/United Artists/Sony/The Kobal Collection hide caption
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By clicking "Like" and commenting on Facebook posts, users signal the social network's algorithm that they care about something. That in turn helps influence what they see later. Algorithms like that happen all over the web — and the programs can reflect human biases. iStockphoto hide caption