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The Future of Robot Caregivers
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The Future of Robot Caregivers

Each time I make a house call, I stay much longer than I should.

Technical Education Program Established For Veterans
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Technical Education Program Established For Veterans

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Alameda County Workforce Investment Board, and Las Positas College recently established a 24-month academic program to...

Some ­niversities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science
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Some ­niversities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science

Just 18 percent of the computer science graduates from colleges and universities across the U.S. are women, down from 37 percent in 1985, but some schools are reporting...

Air Force Research: How to ­se Social Media to Control People Like Drones
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Air Force Research: How to ­se Social Media to Control People Like Drones

Facebook isn't the only organization conducting research into how attitudes are affected by social media.

Data Jockeys Tackle the Chaos of Severe Weather
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Data Jockeys Tackle the Chaos of Severe Weather

Driving east through Iowa last summer, a bank of darkening clouds hovered to the north.

Fiendish Wheat Genome Reveals Grain's History
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Fiendish Wheat Genome Reveals Grain's History

A draft genome sequence of wheat promises to speed efforts to breed new types of one of the world's most important crops — and to reveal the tangled genomic history...

No-Wait Data Centers
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No-Wait Data Centers

The Fasspass network-management system has been shown to reduce data-transmission delays in a Facebook data center by 99.6 percent.

Getting a Grip on Robotic Grasp
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Getting a Grip on Robotic Grasp

Researchers at MIT have developed a wrist-mounted device that enhances the grasping motion of the human hand with two robotic fingers.

Linguistic Features Improve Computerized Translation Programs
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Linguistic Features Improve Computerized Translation Programs

A study by the University of Haifa sheds light on the feature that can improve computerized translation programs.

The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future
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The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future

The robots are coming, and they're getting smarter.

Some ­niversities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science
From ACM Careers

Some ­niversities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science

One of the reasons so few women work in tech is that few choose to study computer science or engineering.

How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq
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How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq

In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert.

Mental-Health Monitoring Goes Mobile
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Mental-Health Monitoring Goes Mobile

Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses or chronic diseases are symptomatic.

For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work
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For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work

Sverker Johansson could be the most prolific author you've never heard of.

Fundamental Chemistry Findings Could Help Extend Moore's Law
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Fundamental Chemistry Findings Could Help Extend Moore's Law

Berkeley Lab and Intel are collaborating to design a new kind of photoresist to enable smaller feature sizes for future generations of microprocessors and other...

Nsa Recruits College Students For Cyber-Operations Program
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Nsa Recruits College Students For Cyber-Operations Program

The National Security Agency is looking to grow its ranks with highly-trained college students.

What Is a 'zero Day' Vulnerability?
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What Is a 'zero Day' Vulnerability?

Tech giant Google announced a new team of security researchers aimed at making the web a safer place by discovering "zero day" vulnerabilities Tuesday.

Nasa Seeks Proposals For Europa Mission Science Instruments
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Nasa Seeks Proposals For Europa Mission Science Instruments

NASA has issued an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for proposals about science instruments that could be carried aboard a future mission to Jupiter's moon Europa...

Meet Jibo, the Cute Social Robot that Knows the Family
From ACM News

Meet Jibo, the Cute Social Robot that Knows the Family

In suite 712 of the Eventi Hotel, high above the sticky June bustle of Midtown Manhattan, New York, one of the world's most advanced consumer robots awaits command...

Supercomputers Reveal Stress-Induced Transformations in World's Thinnest Materials
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Supercomputers Reveal Stress-Induced Transformations in World's Thinnest Materials

Columbia researchers used Brookhaven Lab supercomputer simulations to map and compare the transformations and breaking points of graphene and other promising...
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