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Study: Facebook knows you as well as your spouse
They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but a new study suggests a computer can accurately judge your personality by the things you "Like" on Facebook. The computer's judgments aren't perfect, but they're often just as good at predicting our personality traits as our coworkers, roommates, friends or family members, according to a new study. ---------- FOR THE RECORD An earlier version of this story misspelled the last name of Michal Kosinski, one of the study authors. ---------- Only romantic partners are able to match the computer's personality-divining prowess, the authors of the study say. But while our spouse's knowledge...
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Study: Facebook knows you as well as your spouse
They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but a new study suggests a computer can accurately judge your personality by the things you "Like" on Facebook.
The computer's judgments aren't perfect, but they're often just as good at...
Of mice and men: Researchers point to differences in cell development
Scientists say they have discovered a key factor in the lab formation of human primordial germ cells -- the precursors to egg and sperm -- and that it differs significantly from experiments involving rodent cells.
In a paper published Wednesday in the...
British banker charged with killing two women in Hong Kong
Hong Kong police Monday charged a British banker with killing two women, including an Indonesian woman whose body was found inside a suitcase on the balcony of the man's upscale apartment, authorities said.
The killings have shocked Hong Kong, an Asian...
A brief history of the making of 'Everything'
In 1988, along with 10 million others, I spent several days trying to decipher, decode and demystify "A Brief History of Time" by professor Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist.
Failed.
Reading is not the same thing as...
Guy Scott of Zambia now sub-Saharan Africa's only white head of state
Guy Scott, famous in Zambia for his jocular, outspoken — and sometimes undiplomatic — tongue, on Wednesday became the nation's acting president and sub-Saharan Africa’s only current white head of state.
Scott took office in the southern African...
Christopher Hogwood dies at 73; conductor gave new life to early music
Christopher Hogwood, an eminent English conductor, musicologist and harpsichordist who took a scholarly approach to early-music and Baroque repertoires, has died. He was 73.
Hogwood died Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, England, after an illness...
Men and violence: Sizing up how men size up one another
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England: Museum tour explores the air war against Germany
The National WWII Museum in New Orleans is presenting a new tour of wartime England led by Donald L. Miller, author of “Masters of Air,” about the U.S. Eighth Air Force that engaged in some of the riskiest fighting against Nazi Germany.
The weeklong tour...
Caltech again ranked world's top research campus by British magazine
For the fourth year in a row, Caltech is being rated the best research university in the world by the Times Higher Education magazine of Great Britain, according to a survey released Wednesday.
Three other California schools were in the journal’s top...
Chris Weitz talks about his YA novel, 'The Young World'
"I write lying down — much like Marcel Proust. The only thing I have in common with him," Chris Weitz says, laughing.
Known as a director and screenwriter, Weitz has just published his first novel, "The Young World" (Little Brown: 384...
'Theory of Everything' trailer: Stephen Hawking, young and in love
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As glimpsed in a new trailer, which you can watch above, the romantic drama...
The Scots have little to gain and a whole lot to lose with independence
The gravest immediate threat to the West's long-term security does not emanate from Vladimir Putin or from the militants of the Islamic State. Rather, surprisingly, it comes from peace-loving Scots.
With polls now showing a majority of Scots supporting...
Wolf-crying from England over Scottish independence
To the editor: Cambridge University professors Brendan Simms and Jason Pack think that the "gravest immediate threat to the West's long-term security" comes from "peace-loving Scots." Peace-loving? Have the lads looked at a single page...
Clever trout rival chimpanzees at choosing good allies, study finds
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The findings, described in Current...
Passings: Hamish Maxwell; Kenneth Bunting
Hamish Maxwell
Philip Morris Cos. CEO
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China's Tibet conundrum: how to conquer a myth
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Simon Schama takes on a big topic: the history of the Jews
When telling a tale that includes centuries of endurance, moments of triumph, bursts of humor and sudden, unspeakable atrocities, what's the right tone with which to articulate it all?
That's the trick historian Simon Schama had to figure out in his...
Stephen Hawking displays great comic timing with John Oliver
If the key to comedy is in the timing, then you'd think a man without the ability to speak would be at a severe disadvantage. But as Stephen Hawking demonstrated on "Last Week Tonight" on Sunday, he has a higher understanding of time and...
A family's 70-year quest to regain treasures stolen by Nazis
Since 1946, the San Diego Museum of Art has owned an appealing vision of happy prosperity: Frans Hals' 1630s painting of a plump, rosy-cheeked Dutch merchant whose expression and body language exude confidence, security and bonhomie.
In the early...
Scientists turn to crowdfunding to support research
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It does not come cheap....
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