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	October 19th, 2012 原生林 Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 散策。 15 million cell phones map malaria in Africa Posted 1 day ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! Phone calls and text messages from 15 million mobile phones may help track the spread of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, new research shows. “Researchers have used GPS trackers, surveys, and traffic flow on highways to try to understand how people are moving, but that gave us information about a few hundred people at best,” says Harvard University epidemiologist Caroline Buckee, who worked with researchers at the University of Florida. “Using cell phone records gave us billions of data points.” Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: ICT4D.at/Flickr MongoHQ (YC S11) raises $6M from Trinity Ventures for their database as a service engine Posted about 21 hours ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous MongoHQ has raised $6 million from Trinity Ventures and a host of investors for its database service for developers. The  company will use the funds to expand its public cloud offering and improve its management tools for MongoDB, the popular NoSQL database. A Y Combinator startup, MongoHoQ launched in June 2011. Previous investors have included SV Angel, The Webb Investment Network, Data Collective, Scott McNealy and actor turned angel — Ashton Kutcher. Read the full article at Techcrunch Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.