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D-Link’s Wi-Fi camera provides a sharp, 180-degree view of your home
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D-Link promises to watch over much more of your home with its new Wi-Fi security camera. While it resembles other cameras like the Nest Cam and the Samsung Smartcam HD Plus in many ways, its 180-degree field of view is unbeatable. If positioned against a wall, the D-Link camera could watch over an entire room,...

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Beyond the Zestimate: Zillow launches new ‘Price This Home’ tool, escalating feature war with Redfin
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Zillow is launching a new feature called “Price This Home,” building on its longstanding, computer-generated Zestimate tool by giving homeowners the ability to refine the estimated value of their home by selecting comparable home sales and listings. The free tool, announced by Zillow tonight, is designed...
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Redfin launches ‘second generation’ home value estimator it says is even more accurate than Zillow
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Redfin launched a new estimator tool today, which the company says uses an unprecedented amount of data in order to deliver the industry’s most accurate prediction of how much a home is worth. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman noted the offering is similar to the Zestimate tool from Zillow, which has dominated this space since 2006, and others. But, unlike existing...
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What mobile phone data can reveal about you, in Rwanda or right here at home
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Researchers have analyzed data about mobile phone use in Rwanda to figure out how wealthy a phone’s user is – and they say they might be able to do the same kind of analysis for any other country. The study, published today in the journal Science, applies big-data models to look at much more than income. The Rwandan data, for example,...
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