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Top 10 Most Annoying Songs, According to Science

(Oct. 21) -- "Of all the earworms in all the world to have, why must it be Bad Romance for two days straight? I love you Lady Gaga but I am going mad," lamented Twitter user Sharon about the troublesome little tunes, or earworms, that play over and over in people's heads. It may cheer the frustrated Gaga fan to know she...

Mighty Morphing Power Actors? Software Gives Anyone a Star's Physique

(Oct. 8) -- The days of method actors piling on the pounds for a role may be numbered. MovieReshape is a new image-manipulation software that developers say can alter an actor's appearance by editing a film to achieve the desired bodily appearance. To create the tool, researchers took three-dimensional scans of 120 men...

Apple iPad Tops DVD Players for Fastest Ever Technology Adoption Rate

(Oct. 5) -- The iPad is leaving the DVD and other technologies in a huge pile of e-waste. According to a recent study by Bernstein Research, Apple's signature tablet computer has quickly become the most rapidly adopted non-telephone technology ever, surpassing the previous record-holder, the DVD player, in terms of number...

Kin of Heiress Lose Court Battle Over Guardian

(Sept. 10) -- A judge in Manhattan, N.Y., has denied an independent guardian request filed by relatives of 104-year-old heiress Huguette Clark, saying that their petition is based on hearsay. The ruling handed down in New York County Supreme Court by Judge Laura Visitacion-Lewis on Thursday means that Clark's affairs will...

Background on information storage and retrieval

Information retrieval (IR) is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web.

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