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Eye-Tracking Computers Will Read Your Thoughts
Consider, for a moment, the following list: Republican. Abortion. Democrat. Future. Afghanistan. Health care. Same-sex marriage.
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Google Working on Advanced Web Engineering
InfoWorldGoogle is developing several advanced programming technologies to ease complex Web application development. "We're getting to the place where the WebView...
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A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet
The market for online classes in programming, Web construction, and application development is booming.
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Smarter Computing Systems Make Society Better
The High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation project is driving the development of computing systems designed to make everyday life easier, such...
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Online Attribution of the French Killer
Mohammed Merah, the culprit of the killing of 7 people in France last week, was found using a mix of traditional and online forensics.
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Global Manhunt Will Leverage Social Media to Find 'suspects'
If you had to track down fugitives hidden in five cities around the world, would one day and a $5,000 reward be enough to succeed?
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Fixing the Brain With Computers
Disabilities such as epilepsy, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Parkinson’s disease are being treated with neuroimplants, says St. Louis University...
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New Ornl Tool Developed to Assess Global Freshwater Stress
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a method to make better use of large amounts of data concerning global geography, population, and climate...
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Lessons About Rsa Key Security
Purdue University professor Eugene Spafford says a recently published paper that called into question the security of RSA public-private keys has lessons for security...
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Cassini Spacecraft For Saturn Moon Pass
The Cassini spacecraft is to make its lowest pass yet over the south pole of Enceladus, an active moon of Saturn which may harbour a liquid water ocean.
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Rebecca Mackinnon Discusses Threats to Internet Freedom: Part 2
Many people don't realize that most of the censorship and surveillance in China is not being done by the government, but by companies at the behest of the government...
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Nasa Probe Offers New View of Mercury: Alien World Right in Our Back Yard
The overheated, underappreciated runt of the solar system is finally getting some attention.
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China's Not-So-Super Computers
The supercomputer in this southern boomtown is named Nebulae for the interstellar clouds of gas that give birth to stars.
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Genius and Tragedy at Dawn of Computer Age
One of the many myths about Apple is that the company's name is a reference to the half-eaten apple reportedly found beside the corpse of the British computer scientist...
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Feds Fight Homelessness With Mobile App Challenge
The U.S. departments of Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services and Bon Jovi's JBJ Soul Foundation recently launched the...
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Ancient Sites Spotted From Space, Say Archaeologists
Computer science techniques have enabled archaeologists to discover about 9,000 possible early human settlements across 23,000 square miles in northeastern Syria...
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Survey: Android Programmers Shifting Toward Web Apps
Android is gradually slipping down mobile programmers' priority list, with Web apps stepping in as an answer to development difficulties, according to a recent...
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Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them.
AT 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz wrote, "I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart." That, he figured, would help him "discover things like time machines, robots...
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Fbi Still Struggling With Supreme Court's Gps Ruling
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court said police had overstepped their legal authority by planting a GPS tracker on the car of a suspected drug dealer without getting...
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