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How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind
It's time to think of Google as much more than just a search engine, and that should both excite and spook you.
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Cyberwarfare, Conservation and Disease Prevention Could Benefit From MU Researcher's Network Model
University of Missouri researchers have developed a computer model they say could have wide-reaching applications in cyberwarfare, conservation, and disease prevention...
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New Notre Dame Research Raises Questions About Iris Recognition Systems
Since iris recognition technologies were first developed, it has been assumed that a person's iris remained stable over their lifetime, which is known as “one enrollment...
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Would You Like to Play a Game? New AI Teaches Itself the Rules
Lukasz Kaiser has developed an AI program that can watch two-minute videos of simple board games being played, learn the rules, and then challenge human opponents...
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Computer Scientists Reproduce the Evolution of Evolvability
Modular systems evolve more easily than non-modular systems, but the evolution of modularity is a key open question for biology.
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Getting to the Bottom of Statistics
Technische Universitat Darmstadt researchers have developed the Explain-a-LOD tool, which accesses linked open data and automatically formulates hypotheses regarding...
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Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs with 3D-Printed and Laser-Cut Keys
The security of high-end handcuffs depends on a detainee not having access to certain small, precisely-shaped objects. In the age of easy 3D printing and other...
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The Death of Cash
Café Grumpy is the kind of hipster hangout that wouldn't deign to trumpet itself.
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Toward Achieving 1 Million Times Increase in Computing Efficiency
Northwestern University researchers say they have developed a new logic circuit family based on magnetic semiconductor devices that could result in logic circuits...
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At Casino, Fuming Gamblers Leave Behind Maimed Machines
Along with over 5,000 blinking, whirring digital gambling machines, the new Resorts World Casino, opponents predicted, would bring a surge of crime to Queens when...
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'clonewise' Security Service Helps Identify Vulnerable Code
Deakin University researchers have developed Clonewise, a service for finding common code in programs, which could help find vulnerable libraries built into larger...
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Computer Science Continues Growth on College Campuses
After falling to its lowest level since the 1970s in 2005, computer science enrollments at U.S. universities have been rising for the last three consecutive years...
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DARPA Seeks 'radical Innovation' in Data Analysis
DARPA is interested in novel ways to identify people, places, objects, and activities in visual and geospatial images. DARPA is seeking participants for a project...
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Exascale Computing By Decade's End
Parallelism and technology scaling will make exascale computing possible by the end of the decade, says Intel Fellow Shekhar Borkar. By about 2018, engineers are...
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Step Inside the Large Hadron Collider
The Compact Muon Solenoid is one of two main detectors at the LHC. It weighs 12,500 tons, measures 69 ft. (21 m) in length, and is a key research tool for 2,000...
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The Eyes Have It: Marketers Now Track Shoppers' Retinas
Consumer-products companies are turning to new technology to overcome the biggest obstacle to learning what shoppers really think: what the shoppers say.
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Tridium's Niagara Framework: Marvel of Connectivity Illustrates New Cyber Risks
John Sublett and his colleagues had an audacious, digital-age plan. They wanted to use the Internet to enable businesses to manage any kind of electronic device...
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Laser Beam Keeps Robo-Plane Buzzing For Two Days Straight
LaserMotive has demonstrated a power system that can keep Lockheed Martin's Stalker unmanned aerial vehicle going for more than 48 hours with laser light—but that's...
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Welcome to the Programming Language Explosion
Mission-critical business software has for years largely been written in Cobol or RPG if it was on a mainframe, but the personal computer language market is much...
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