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Google Flu Trends Wildly Overestimated This Year's Flu Outbreak

A huge discrepancy occurred between Google Flu Trend and data collected by the CDC.

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Latest high-risk list adds two entries

While two items fell off the list in its latest iteration, dozens of areas have been listed for a decade or more.

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You Don’t Want Big Data to Pick Your Valentine

Algorithms on most dating sites are fundamentally flawed from the outset.

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Parsing Silver's meaning

The Conversation: Our responses to your questions and comments.

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The 10 'Sticky States' Where Feds Will Have Trouble Recruiting IT Talent

If you want to hire skilled techies, head South.

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An Optimistic Era for Global Infectious Disease Control

The newly appointed director of the Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria believes international health efforts are at the cusp of containing these epidemics.

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National Library of Medicine Seeks User Data from Social Media

Officials want to know how people use data during emergencies and push information more effectively.

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DOD Aims to Shield Nuke Operations From Budget Cuts

Administration officials say U.S. nuclear weapons operations are a national priority.

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Analytics guru Nate Silver offers advice for agencies

Silver's big-data rule number one: 'Don't become too enamored with computers.'

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Pentagon officials push back on the Hill

DOD's Ashton Carter warns that a new national defense strategy might be needed if sequestration takes effect.

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Why North Korea's Nuclear Program Can't Be Stopped

The world can't negotiate with North Korea, because the world doesn't have anything North Korea wants.

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16 days and counting: A sequester status check

There are ways to still avoid across-the-board cuts at agencies, but the politics are daunting.

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What We Know About North Korea's Nuclear Test

The U.S. and other nations have denounced the test.

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DHS Releases Career Guidance for IT Professionals

Homeland Security CIO Richard Spires aims to help people make better career decisions.

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Obama to host second 'fireside hangout' after speech

Want to ask the president a question? Submit yours by Feb. 13 and he may answer it on a Google+ event following the State of the Union address.

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Responsive design: Planning for future-friendly websites

A new design technique allows developers to design one website that adjusts to a variety of mobile platforms.

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'Shooting Therapy' Did Not Kill Navy SEAL Chris Kyle

Reintroducing patients with PTSD to whatever triggers their symptoms -- gradually, in a clinical setting -- can be effective. Veterans Chris Kyle and Eddie Ray Routh were not at a shooting range as part of exposure therapy on the day Routh killed Kyle.

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Is a 1 Percent Pay Raise Enough?

Even with the pay freeze lifted, if could still be hard to keep pace with private sector IT salaries.