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nbridled Ingenuity at Maker Faire
Around noon this past Sunday, I found myself asking a young girl why, even though the music-producing device she and her family had made was called "Slugophone...
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Synchronized Swimming: Patrolling For Pollution with Robotic Fish
Michigan State University researchers want to develop robotic fish that can navigate underwater and patrol for pollution in oceans, lakes, and rivers.
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Researchers Sequence Dark Matter of Life
University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a method to sequence the genomes of thousands of bacteria species, including microorganisms that...
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Could Silicon Be Ideal in Quantum Computing?
Sandia National Laboratory researchers have found that one way to reduce noise in a quantum system is to use silicon.
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Caring, Empathetic Robots the Goal of Ou Professor's Research
University of Oklahoma professor Dean Hougen is studying whether robots can learn to care for one another, and possibly humans.
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Blood Vessels from Your Printer
Researchers have been working at growing tissue and organs in the laboratory for a long time. These days, tissue engineering enables us to build up artificial...
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Kinect Assists At-Risk Older Adults
Kinect and other computer technology, like Doppler radar, are being used to detect the early onset of illness and the risk of falling in older adults.
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Printing Off the Paper
Imagine being able to "print" an entire house. Or a four-course dinner. Or a complete mechanical device such as a cuckoo clock, fully assembled and ready to run...
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Shwetak Patel: 2011 Macarthur Fellow
Shwetak Patel is a computer scientist who has invented a series of sensor technology systems for home environments with the goal of saving energy and improving...
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The Last Days of the Old Parking Meter
Motorists' bane, magnet for thieves, and memorialized in the Beatles' "Lovely Rita," the diminutive parking meter has led an outsize life. But its days in New...
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The America Invents Act and the Individual Inventor
Much has been said about how the newly passed patent reform legislation, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, benefits large corporations. While that argument...
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5 Game-Changing Ideas For Federal Cyber R&d
The Leap-Ahead R&D & Coordination program is one of 12 initiatives included in the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiatitive, which consists of several...
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Monitoring Patients sing Intelligent T-Shirts
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid researchers have developed an intelligent t-shirt that monitors human vital signs, such as body temperature and heart rate, and...
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Schoolchildren to Be Taught How to Write Software
The British government has decided to start teaching pre-General Certificate of Secondary Education students how to write software as part of its effort to transform...
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'internet of Things' Is Set to Come
Oxfam charity shops will use technology developed by a U.K. consortium to create an Internet of things this fall.
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Carriers May Be Handicapping Cell Phone Networks
Researchers at the University of Michigan and Microsoft Research found that wireless operators may unknowingly be degrading performance on their networks as the...
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In Case You Wondered, a Real Human Wrote This Column
"WISCONSIN appears to be in the driver's seat en route to a win, as it leads 51–10 after the third quarter. Wisconsin added to its lead when Russell Wilson found...
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Hacking Made Easier, Thanks To New Tools
Time was when it took a fair amount of expertise to launch the kinds of illegal computer attacks that have become the hallmarks of "hacktivist" groups like Anonymous...
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On the Internet, Nobody Knows You
Hackers have proven they can crack just about any computer network, from Sony’s to Citigroup’s. Afterward, they face another challenge: unloading the virtual...
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