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A trio of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professors has launched a new high-performance computing center that will expand access to the supercomputing...
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3D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution
Businesses in the South Park district of San Francisco generally sell either Web technology or sandwiches and burritos. Bespoke Innovations plans to sell designer...
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Museum Displays Personal Computer, Video Game Collection
The small town of Brantford, Ontario, located about an hour west of Toronto, has been been gaining a reputation, in nerd circles at least, as home to the Personal...
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Religious Search Engines Yield Tailored Results
In a world where Google has put every bit of information at our fingertips, some people are now demanding less information when they surf the Internet.
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Number of New Computer Viruses at Record High
Cyber criminals are attracted to enormously popular Internet-based social networks such as Facebook or LinkedIn, and are using such networks to attack Internet...
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Most Influential Tweeters of All
Northwestern University researchers have designed a website that tracks the top trending topics on Twitter in real time. The website—pulseofthetweeters.com—uses...
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How Football Playing Robots Have the Future of AI at Their Feet
Research published in WIREs Cognitive Science details how robots designed to play football (called "soccer" in the U.S.) are propelling the development of robotic...
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New Cctv Technology Helps Prevent Terror Attacks
The VTT Technical Research Center of Finland has developed image-processing technology that can analyze large amounts of video data automatically and quickly recognize...
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FCC Move to Release 'white Spaces' Has Tech Firms Dreaming of Wireless Boom
Entire towns linked to the Web as giant hot spots with seamless wireless connections. Internet-connected refrigerators that monitor when it's time to get more...
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Electric Skin That Rivals the Real Thing
Two separate research groups have developed pressure-sensing devices that can match human skin in sensitivity and flexibility.
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Software Improves Yuma Proving Ground Test Equipment
Researchers at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground have developed a program that can determine the positional and angular motion of relatively stationary test objects...
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Fcc Likely to Open Airwaves to Wireless
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve the use of "white spaces"—unlicensed, TV-band airwaves that could lead to stronger, faster wireless...
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Video Games Lead to Faster Decisions That Are No Less Accurate
Cognitive scientists have discovered that playing action video games trains people to make the right decisions faster. Gamers' heightened sensitivity improves a...
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Can You Find Me Now?
By demonstrating fundamental limits on their accuracy, MIT researchers show how to improve wireless location-detection systems.
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Access to Data of the Past
Tools to understand data from out-of-date systems will also promote the rapid integration of data from newly developed systems.
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Wheelchair Makes the Most of Brain Control
Artificial intelligence improves a wheelchair system that could give paralyzed people greater mobility.
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Researchers in Asian Countries Raise Their Scientific Profiles Worldwide
While researchers at universities and institutes in many Western countries fret about budget pressures, scientists in many Asian nations are translating huge...
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Fujitsu to Release Wireless Charging Tech in 2012
Fujitsu said Monday (September 13) that it has overcome design hurdles for a mechanism for wireless charging of electronic devices and that the company plans...
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Crowdsourcing Peer Review
It is the greatest question in computer science. A negative answer would likely give a fundamentally deeper understanding of the nature of computation. And a...
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