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Biology's Master Programmers
George Church is an imposing figure—over six feet tall, with a large, rectangular face bordered by a brown and silver nest of beard and topped by a thick mop of...
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Silicon Valley's Top Threat Is China, Survey Finds
Many high-level technology executives are convinced that some other country, probably China, will supplant Silicon Valley as the global center for innovation within...
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Google's Futuristic Glasses Move Closer to Reality
Google recently announced that it is selling a prototype of its Internet-connected glasses, known as Google Glasses, to U.S. computer programmers for $1,500, hoping...
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Computing Advances Vital to Sustainability Efforts
Advances in computing, such as those that help to understand complex systems and their connections, are crucial to solving sustainability problems, according to...
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Scientists Develop Method For Authenticating Digital Images By Analyzing 'noise'
University at Albany computer scientist Siwei Lyu and colleagues have identified a method of using "noise" to authenticate digital photography.
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Universal Speech Translator App Ready for Olympics
The 2012 Olympic Games in London will serve as the test bed for a new smartphone application that will enable people to converse with others in their own language...
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'leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web
Reddit, Mozilla, Gawker, and possibly many other web outfits experienced brief technical problems on Saturday evening, when software underpinning their online operations...
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Your E-Book Is Reading You
It takes the average reader just seven hours to read the final book in Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" trilogy on the Kobo e-reader—about 57 pages an hour.
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Researchers se Spoofing to 'hack' Into a Flying Drone
American researchers took control of a flying drone by hacking into its GPS system—acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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A Robot Takes Stock
The short figure creeping around the Carnegie Mellon University campus store in a hooded sweatshirt recently isn't some shoplifter, but a robot taking inventory...
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Interactive Map Like Gps For Roman Empire
Stanford University researchers have developed an interactive map of the Roman Empire called ORBIS that features roads, rivers, and sea routes.
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Communication Scheme Makes Popular Applications 'gracefully Mobile'
MIT researchers have developed the mobile shell remote-login program, which addresses the lack of mobility of the popular SSH program.
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Super Wi-Fi Network Eyed For Rural College Towns
AIR.U, a consortium of higher education associations, public interest groups, and technology companies, has launched an effort to bring more super Wi-Fi broadband...
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Period of Transition: Stanford Computer Science Rethinks Core Curriculum
Stanford University's computer science faculty embarked on an initiative to reinvent its core curriculum about five years ago.
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Europeans Develop Open Source Software For Biosciences
Life sciences researchers for the first time will be able to examine the spread of cancer cells in a three-dimensional environment and determine how effectively...
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A Look Inside Leap Motion, the 3D Gesture Control That's Like Kinect on Steroids
Leap Motion's not the household name Kinect is, but it should be; the company's motion-tracking system is more powerful, more accurate, smaller, cheaper, and just...
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Official: West Concerned About Iranian, Islamic Video Games Production
Production of computer and video games with Iranian and Islamic contents has become a source of concern for the western states, a senior Iranian cultural official...
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'leap Second' Lengthens Weekend
The world is about to get a well-earned long weekend but don't make big plans because it will only last an extra second. A so-called "leap second" will be added...
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Minitel: The Rise and Fall of the France-Wide Web
Many years ago, long before the birth of the Web, there was a time when France was the happening-est place in the digital universe.
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