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Fast, Accurate Detection of 100,000 Object Classes on a Single Machine
Humans can distinguish among approximately 10,000 relatively high-level visual categories, but we can discriminate among a much larger set of visual stimuli referred...
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Astronomer Uses Kepler Telescope's Data in Hunt For Spacecraft from Other Worlds
In the field of planet hunting, Geoff Marcy is a star. After all, the astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley found nearly three-quarters of the...
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NASA's Space Apps Challenge recently became the world's largest open hackathon, with over 8,000 participants spanning 44 countries.
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Nsa Revelations Reframe Digital Life For Some
In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost...
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Where Do You Test a Tool Bound For Mars? Greenland
Every morning this week, Justin Spring and Sean Yoon got up and drove down a bumpy dirt road. They piled their packs onto their backs and hiked 45 minutes up a...
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Nasa Advanced Technology Concepts Selected For Study
NASA has selected 12 proposals, including two from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts...
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NWSC Named 'Green' Data Center of the Year
The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center has been named the 2013 'Green' Data Center of the Year at the inaugural Datacenter Dynamics North American Awards.
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Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning
Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...
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Meet the Designer Behind Some of the Web’s Newest Killer Fonts
Thanks to newer browsers and greater bandwidth, there's been an explosion of new Web fonts—tens of thousands of them over the last decade.
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The Demanding Off-Hour Escapes of China's High-Tech Workers
The hottest nightclub in this factory town is a neon-encrusted dive down the road from the industrial park where iPhones are made 24 hours a day.
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New Apps Do Heavy Lifting During the Job Search
Finding a job is not easy but a range of smartphone and web apps are designed to customize employment searches and even provide information on the competition.
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The End of Digital Tyranny: Why the Future of Computing Is Analog
Our world is ruled by 1s and 0s.
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Hugh Herr and the Liberating Age of Bionics
"It's extraordinary that we live in this day and age with all our wonderful modern technology, and still we have shoes that give us blisters," says Hugh Herr, with...
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Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
Like dozens of other brick-and-mortar retailers,Nordstrom wanted to learn more about its customers—how many came through the doors, how many were repeat visitors—the...
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Why Microsoft's Reorganization Closes the Books on an Era of Computing
Nothing ever stays the same. On more than one occasion, it has taken Microsoft, one of the most important engines powering the rise of the technology industry,...
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Canadian Team Claims $250,000 Prize For Human-Powered Helicopter
The Canadian AeroVelo team has done what many thought impossible.
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Israel's Military-Entrepreneurial Complex Owns Big Data
Two years ago, a half-dozen programmers and entrepreneurs started working together in a Tel Aviv basement to create one of Israel's 5,000 high-tech companies.
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Researchers Find Bug Bounty Programs Pay Economic Rewards
Bug bounty programs can be as much as 100 times more cost-effective for finding security vulnerabilities than hiring full-time security researchers to do the same...
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Touchscreens 'a Small Step' in Innovation
The way we use digital devices has become big news.
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Cooling System Gets Zero-Gravity Test
Engineers from the University of Illinois at Chicago tested a microelectronic cooling system in zero gravity on board the Novespace Airbus.
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