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Piracy Technology to Revolutionize Market Research in Cinema
Researchers are developing piracy tracking technology for movie theatres. "We plan to build on the capabilities of current technology . . . to detect criminals...
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Researchers Develop 'Hi-Def' Copy Number Variation Decoder
CNVer, a computer algorithm developed by researchers at the University of Toronto, promises to simplify the discovery of the precise number of copies of genes in...
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Catching p with Multitouch Pioneer Jeff Han
When it comes to the future of technology, Jeff Han literally has his finger on the pulse.
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Will Netflix Destroy the Internet?
American broadband capacity might not be able to keep up with everyone who wants to stream movies.
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Implanted Chip 'allows Blind People to Detect Objects'
A man with an inherited form of blindness has been able to identify letters and a clock face using a pioneering implant, researchers say.
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Apple Looks to a New Computing Era
Remember the floppy disk? I'm willing to bet Steve Jobs does. I'm also willing to bet he remembers when he killed it.
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Apple Experimenting With Data Transfer Technology For Iphone 5
Apple is reportedly experimenting with Near Field Communication for the upcoming iPhone 5, which would allow the device to be turned into an electronic wallet...
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Ncsa Director: Gpu Is Future of Supercomputing
The director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications has seen the future of supercomputing and it can be summed up in three letters: GPU.
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Prizewinning Chatbot Steers the Conversation
A chatbot named Suzette recently won the Loebner prize, awarded for a version of the Turing Test, because the system successfully fooled a human judge into thinking...
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Obama's Chief Scientist Pushes National Broadband Plan
John Holdren, the White House's top science and technology adviser, says the FCC's national broadband plan would lead to an improvement in the productivity of science...
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Bogus Grass-Roots Politics on Twitter
Data-mining techniques reveal fake Twitter accounts that give the impression of a vast political movement.
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At Nasa, a Quiet Quest to Send a Humanoid Robot to the Moon
For $150 billion, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration could have sent astronauts back to the Moon. The Obama administration judged that too expensive...
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Strengthening the Voice of ndergraduate Research
The Council on Undergraduate Research and the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research have joined forces to form a new organization to strengthen and promote...
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Google's Android Software Dominates .s. Smartphone Market
Google's Android software continued its rocket-like ascent over the summer, ending the third quarter with the dominant market share in the United States among...
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A Day Seen Through Google Searches
Google likes to think of itself as the world's information barometer, the most complete repository of human intent as measured by the Internet search query. Around...
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More Than 100,000 Pay For British News Site
News Corp. said Tuesday that it had attracted 105,000 paying customers to the digital versions of The Times and The Sunday Times of London since it started charging...
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Teaching Real-World Programming
In an innovative software-engineering class, students meet for regular "code reviews" with senior programmers from Boston-area companies.
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Data-Scope Computer to Allow Data Analysis That's Impossible Today
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science are developing a computer system that will peform data analysis...
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Ryerson Researchers Are Building Context-Aware Communications Interface
Ryerson University researchers are developing a context-awareness communication system that provides mobile-device users with more control over how, when, and where...
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