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Real 'Touch' Screens and Tasteful Computers: IBM Predicts the Future
What if a computer could let us "feel" the texture of a fabric before we buy clothes online? Or gives us a whiff—or even a taste—of a meal we're thinking of preparing...
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How Google Is Taking the Knowledge Graph Global
Earlier this month, Google shared a fascinating statistic. The number of items in the company's Knowledge Graph—its database of people, places, and things, and...
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Wallflowers of Silicon Valley Get Asked to Dance
After years of being wallflowers at Silicon Valley's hottest tech conferences and Sean Parker's after-parties, enterprise technology firms are now part of the "in"...
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Looking at the Battle of Gettysburg Through Robert E. Lee's Eyes
Anne Kelly Knowles loves places where history happened.
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North Korea: On the Net in World's Most Secretive Nation
There's a curious quirk on every official North Korean Website: a piece of programming that must be included in each page's code.
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Verizon to Test Support For One Password For Whole Internet
Online identity and technology companies are collaborating to test whether consumers would trust a single, highly secure user-password combination for all of their...
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Kenshiro Robot Gets New Muscles and Bones
University of Tokyo researchers have developed Kenshiro, a human-like musculoskelatal robot whose underlying structure closely mimics the human form.
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New Standard/tool Address Security Dependencies
The standards organization Open Group has created a standard for modeling security dependencies. The "Dependency Modeling Standard" will enable the military and...
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Stretchable Electronics
University of Delaware researchers are developing power sources for flexible, stretchable electronics, which could find applications in biomedical, wearable, portable...
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Follow the Eyes: Head-Mounted Cameras Could Help Robots Understand Social Interactions
Carnegie Mellon University robotics researchers have developed an algorithm that uses crowdsourcing to detect where people's gazes intersect. The researchers say...
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Selling Flak Jackets in the Cyberwars
When the Israeli army and Hamas trade virtual blows in cyberspace, or when hacker groups like Anonymous rise from the digital ether, or when WikiLeaks dumps a trove...
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There's So Much Data that We're Running Out of Words to Describe It
The world is producing and storing data at such a rate that the day isn't far off when we will literally no longer have a proper way of describing it.
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Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm Gets Closer Than Ever to Human Limb
U.S. researchers say they have developed a robotic arm directly controlled by brain impulses that is superior to other robotic limbs in mimicking the fluidity and...
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Quantum Computers Will Be Commercially Available in 20 Years: Scientist
University of New South Wales professor Andrew Dzurak predicts that commercially available quantum computing will in arrive two decades, while demonstrations of...
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Online Learning Tool Brings 'the Crowd' Into Homework Assignments
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed Caesar, a computer system designed to provide students with feedback on their homework assignments...
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Got Food Allergies? Now You Can Test Your Meal on the Spot Using a Cell Phone
UCLA researchers have developed iTube, a lightweight device that attaches to a cell phone to detect allergens in food samples. iTube uses the cell phone's built...
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Content Is King: Can Researchers Design an Information-Centric Internet?
The Internet needs to be transformed from a network that emphasizes where data is located to one that focuses on the nature of the data itself, according to former...
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Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm Gets Closer Than Ever to Human Limb
Researchers in the United States have developed a robotic arm controlled directly by thought with a level of agility closer than ever to a normal human limb.
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Hacking the Human Brain: The Next Domain of Warfare
It's been fashionable in military circles to talk about cyberspace as a "fifth domain" for warfare, along with land, space, air, and sea.
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