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 Human Insights Inspire Solutions for Household Robots
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Human Insights Inspire Solutions for Household Robots

New algorithms designed by researchers at UC Berkeley and UMass allow a robot to do laundry without any specific knowledge of what it has to wash.

Cyber Security Experts Make Virtual Lab Available For Classrooms, Competitions
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Cyber Security Experts Make Virtual Lab Available For Classrooms, Competitions

With NSF support, Iowa State University is making a version of ISEAGE (the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment) software technology available...

British Army Creates Team of Facebook Warriors
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British Army Creates Team of Facebook Warriors

The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...

Andreessen Horowitz Taps Into Thriving World of Programmers
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Andreessen Horowitz Taps Into Thriving World of Programmers

With its recent investment in Stack Exchange, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz now counts three significant companies in its portfolio that serve the broad and...

Programming: Pick ­p Python
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Programming: Pick ­p Python

Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering.

Machine Learning Offers Insights Into Evolution, Researchers Find
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Machine Learning Offers Insights Into Evolution, Researchers Find

Computers are able to use monkey facial patterns to correctly identify and distinguish individuals within species. The findings suggest that machine learning can...

Intellectual Privacy Vital to Life in the Digital Age
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Intellectual Privacy Vital to Life in the Digital Age

Privacy law expert Neil M. Richards argues in a new book that digital technologies should give more attention to the important human values that required hard fights...

Graphene Displays Clear Prospects For Flexible Electronics
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Graphene Displays Clear Prospects For Flexible Electronics

New research shows that graphene and related 2-D materials could be used to create the first generation of light-emitting electronic devices that are thin, flexible...

I'll Be Back: The Return of Artificial Intelligence
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I'll Be Back: The Return of Artificial Intelligence

The artificial-intelligence industry, a field that conjures up images of humanoid robots and self-aware computer systems, is making a comeback at Silicon Valley...

China's Internet Population Hits 649 Million, 86 Percent on Phones
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China's Internet Population Hits 649 Million, 86 Percent on Phones

China had 649 million Internet users by the end of 2014, with 557 million of those using handsets to go online, said a government report on Tuesday, as the world's...

Critics Pounce on China's Top Science Prize
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Critics Pounce on China's Top Science Prize

Controversy has erupted over China's highest science prize for 2014. Critics are blasting the winning project, on network computing, as not innovative and undeserving...

Associated Press Looks to Expand Its Automated Stories Program Following Successful Launch
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Associated Press Looks to Expand Its Automated Stories Program Following Successful Launch

In the last three months of 2014, the Associated Press published 3,000 articles on the earning reports of U.S. companies. Previously it could publish only 300.

The Quest For Efficiency in Thermoelectric Nanowires
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The Quest For Efficiency in Thermoelectric Nanowires

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories say better materials and manufacturing techniques for thermoelectric nanowires could allow carmakers to harvest power...

Google Sweetens the Bug Bounty
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Google Sweetens the Bug Bounty

Google's security team has a problem.

High-Def Radar Images Released of Near-Earth Asteroid
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High-Def Radar Images Released of Near-Earth Asteroid

A team of astronomers using the NSF's Green Bank Telescope and NASA's Deep Space Network radar transmitter has released the most detailed radar images yet of asteroid...

How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft
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How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft

When Microsoft stock was at a record high in 1999, and its market capitalization was nearly $620 billion, the notion that Apple Computer would ever be bigger—let...

Qubits With Staying Power
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Qubits With Staying Power

Researchers have unveiled a new design that in experiments extended the superposition time of a promising type of qubit a hundredfold, which could lead toward practical...

The '90s Startup That Terrified Microsoft and Got Americans to Go Online
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The '90s Startup That Terrified Microsoft and Got Americans to Go Online

Nineteen ninety-five was the inaugural year of the 21st century, a clear starting point for contemporary life.

Privacy Challenges
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Privacy Challenges

Just four pieces of information are enough to identify 90 percent of the people in a data set recording three months of credit-card transactions by 1.1 million...

Charles H. Townes, Who Paved Way For the Laser in Daily Life, Dies at 99
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Charles H. Townes, Who Paved Way For the Laser in Daily Life, Dies at 99

Charles H. Townes, a visionary physicist whose research led to the development of the laser, making it possible to play CDs, scan prices at the supermarket, measure...
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