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Google ­nofficially Declares War on Content Farms

Search behemoth Google says it's taking a stab at raising the bar on search results by penalizing Websites that offer copycat content and sites that are clearly...

­U.S. Sets 21st-Century Goal: Building a Better Patent Office
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­U.S. Sets 21st-Century Goal: Building a Better Patent Office

President Obama, who emphasizes American innovation, says modernizing the federal Patent and Trademark Office is crucial to "winning the future." So at a time when...

Augmented Reality Iphone Helps Police Track Suspects
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Augmented Reality Iphone Helps Police Track Suspects

Picture the scene: armed police officers are warned on their radios that a suspected male terrorist has been tracked to a crowded football stadium.

Nasa's Robot May Get Japanese Space Companion
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Nasa's Robot May Get Japanese Space Companion

The next launch of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery will carry a humanoid robot to the International Space Station. Dubbed Robonaut 2 (R2), the robot has a helmeted...

A Semantic Sommelier: Wine Application Highlights the Power of Web 3.0
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A Semantic Sommelier: Wine Application Highlights the Power of Web 3.0

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Deborah McGuinness has developed a group of applications designed to enhance wine knowledge and appreciation. The applications...

New Technology Pinpoints Genetic Differences Between Cancer, Non-Cancer Patients
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New Technology Pinpoints Genetic Differences Between Cancer, Non-Cancer Patients

Virginia Tech scientists have developed technology that can find genetic differences between breast cancer patients and healthy individuals.

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Google, Yahoo! Babel Fish ­se Math Principles to Translate Documents Online

Online translation has improved significantly in recent years due to a shift away from translation based on linguistic models and toward one based on statistics...

World's Smallest Computer Watches You
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World's Smallest Computer Watches You

Researchers recently unveiled the first complete millimeter-scale computing system that is about the size of the letter "N" on the back of a penny (or about the...

Calling All Cars: Cell Phone Networks and the Future of Traffic
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Calling All Cars: Cell Phone Networks and the Future of Traffic

Ask someone what they think the future of driving is, and the most likely response involves self-driving cars.

Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter
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Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter

Like any aspiring filmmaker, Michael McDonald, a high school senior, used a blog to show off his videos. But discouraged by how few people bothered to visit,...

Cerf: 2011 Will Be Proving Point For 'interplanetary Internet'
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Cerf: 2011 Will Be Proving Point For 'interplanetary Internet'

The InterPlanetary Internet initiative to extend the Internet into outer space is using a Bundle Protocol that was developed as part of a general notion for a delay...

Gary Chapman, Technologist: 1952 - 2010
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Gary Chapman, Technologist: 1952 - 2010

He raised important public issues, such as the impact of computers and the Internet on society, and encouraged social responsibility for computer professionals....

Memristors: Pass or Fail?
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Memristors: Pass or Fail?

The device may revolutionize data storage, replacing flash memory and perhaps even disks. Whether they can be reliably and cheaply manufactured, though, is an open...

Evaluating Government Funding
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Evaluating Government Funding

A presidential report asserts the value of U.S. government investments in the cross-agency Networking and Information Technology Research...

Twitter as Medium and Message
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Twitter as Medium and Message

Researchers are mining Twitter's vast flow of data to measure public sentiment, follow political activity, and detect earthquakes and flu outbreaks.

Grid Computing's Future
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Grid Computing's Future

Outreach programs and usability improvements are drawing many researchers to grid computing from disciplines that have not traditionally used such resources.

Female Topics Encourage Girls to Study Science
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Female Topics Encourage Girls to Study Science

Science should be presented in a female friendly way to get girls more interested in the subject, says the University of Luxembourg's Sylvie Kerger, who studies...

­a Project Creating a Robotic Customs Officer
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­a Project Creating a Robotic Customs Officer

University of Arizona researchers are developing an artificial intelligence-based customs security system that would ask travelers questions and analyze their answers...

Researchers Store Data in Flash Memory ­nder Low Voltage Conditions
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Researchers Store Data in Flash Memory ­nder Low Voltage Conditions

University of Massachusetts Amherst and Texas A&M University researchers have developed a method for writing information to flash memory under low-voltage conditions...

New Hacking Tools Pose Bigger Threats to Wi-Fi ­sers
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New Hacking Tools Pose Bigger Threats to Wi-Fi ­sers

You may think the only people capable of snooping on your Internet activity are government intelligence agents or possibly a talented teenage hacker holed up...
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