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A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley
Some budding entrepreneurs and computer whizzes based here in the Pacific Northwest are starting to turn heads down in Silicon Valley.
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Northwestern Researchers Create 'rubber-Band Electronics'
Northwestern University researchers have developed a design that enables electronics to bend and stretch more than 200 percent of their original size using a combination...
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Computer Watches Humans Play Connect Four, Then Beats Them
A computer scientist has published a paper detailing how systems can successfully win at boardgames after watching two minute-long videos of humans playing.
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Developing Situational Awareness
Carnegie Mellon University's Ed Stoner says the ability to monitor large networks and analyze bulk data collections from various sources is crucial to allowing...
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How Software-Defined Radio Could Revolutionize Wireless
In 1976, two shaggy-haired college dropouts founded a company called Apple to manufacture personal computers. The company's prospects looked so poor that the third...
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Spotting Suicidal Tendencies on Social Networks
University of Tokyo researchers are using Mixi, an online social network with more than 25 million users, to study people who have regular thoughts about suicide...
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Mapping Research With Wikimaps
The evolution of a page, topic, or collection of connections on Wikipedia can be mapped using a dynamic tool from an international research team. The tool, WikiMaps...
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Suit Allows sers to Create Music Through Movement
Singer Imogen Heap performed at the recent TED Global 2012 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland wearing a musical suit, which gave her a greater opportunity to create...
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U.s. Spy Agencies Say Won't Read Americans' Email For Cybersecurity
The head of the U.S. spy agency that eavesdrops on electronic communications overseas sought on Monday to reassure Americans that the National Security Agency would...
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Drone Hijacking? That
On the evening of June 19, a group of researchers from the University of Texas successfully hijacked a civilian drone at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico...
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The Robot of the Future That's About to Explore the Deep Past of Mars
I want to tell you about a special place on the surface of Mars. Back in the solar system's early days, a large object slammed into the red planet, leaving behind...
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The nified Theory of Wu
Virginia Tech Associate Professor at Wu-chun Feng, commonly known as "Wu," talks about productivity and his latest work on supercomputers.
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Smart Headlights See through Rain and Snow
A prototype headlight system can detect raindrops or snow streaks and "dis-illuminate" them, thereby increasing visibility on the road ahead.
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Microsoft Training Computers to Finish Our Sentences
Computer scientists from Microsoft Research and researchers from Cornell University and the University of California-Irvine are trying to determine if it is possible...
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Start-Up Attempts to Convert Prof Hawking's Brainwaves Into Speech
An American scientist is to unveil details of work on the brain patterns of Prof Stephen Hawking he says could help safeguard the physicist's ability to communicate...
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'googling' Through nique Audio Material: Towards a Better Search Result
University of Twente researchers are working to make spoken audio material from the past more accessible. The researchers say that a combination of speech recognition...
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IBM Research Conjures p Augmented Reality Mobile Shopping App
IBM Research has developed an augmented reality mobile shopping application that enables retailers to personalize each individual customer's shopping experience...
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Hackers Steal BMWs in 3 Minutes Using Security Loophole
There has been an unusual spike in the number of BMWs stolen in the U.K. this year, with some sources suggesting the number may be 300 cars or higher. The cars...
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New Patent Office Fighting Tech Giants For Talent
Silicon Valley is one of four areas that will soon have a regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the challenge will be how to attract and retain qualified...
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