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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Who Gives a Tweet? Nuanced Feedback For Microbloggers
The University of Southampton's Paul Andre is collaborating with researchers from MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology on a website—Who Gives A Tweet (WGATweet...
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Machine Science
Manually tracking all the published science relevant to a scientist's research is an impossible task, but it is predicted that computers capable of generating many...
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A Smoother Street View
Microsoft researchers have developed Street Slide, street-level imaging software that could help people find locations more quickly on the Web, as well as leave...
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Defcon Ninja Party Badge
A hacker group known as the Ninjas has created what may be the best DefCon badge ever. The badge allows wireless ninja battle between badge holders. Unlike the...
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Snapshot of Global Internet Speeds Revealed
A report based on analysis of huge amounts of net traffic has revealed the state of the Internet around the globe.
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A Smoother Street View
Microsoft's new toy allows for a more seamless walk down an online avenue.
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Device Lets Disabled Steer Wheelchair, Communicate By Sniffing
Weizmann Institute scientists have invented a unique device, based on sniffing, that permits disabled persons to navigate wheelchairs and communicate. Sniffing...
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Researcher Develops nderground Wireless Communication For Mines
Thanks to the work of Ryerson University researcher Xavier Fernando, countless miners' lives could be saved in the future with state-of-the-art technology that...
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Cheaper Substrates Made of Oxide Materials
Researchers at Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University have made a discovery that opens the door to building cheaper electronic components like diodes on a variety...
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High-Speed Laser Chips Move Data at 50 Gbps
A new research breakthrough from Intel combines silicon chips and lasers to transmit data at 50 gigabits per second—and someday, maybe as fast as a terabit per...
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Acrobatic Robots
Dennis Hong is living his dream, in a lab filled with wacky robots. He is director of Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, which is filled with...
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Polymer Synthesis Could Aid Future Electronics
Canadian and Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a process that could lead to the development of brighter, clearer, and more energy-efficient...
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How Will the Smart Grid Handle Heat Waves?
Pretty well, once the technology to automatically respond to peak demand and store renewable energy matures.
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So Many Bugs, So Little Time
Tools that find serious bugs automatically could lead to safer, more stable software.
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Technology Not a Key Differentiator in Modern War, Historian Says
Despite the U.S. military's increasing reliance on technologies like aerial drones and global positioning systems, technology is not a decisive factor in modern...
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In Ruling on Iphones, Apple Loses a Bit of Its Grip
Apple likes to maintain tight control over what programs can appear on the iPhone—a task that just became a little bit harder.
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Perfecting Synthetic Sounds For Animated Worlds
If computers can generate the imagery in animated movies like Toy Story 3 and Despicable Me, why can't they also generate the sound effects to go with them?
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Cut-and-Paste Simplicity For Computer Animation
Tools developed by European researchers bring cut-and-paste simplicity to gaming and animation. Users will be able to cut-and-paste complex elements like emotion...
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Bringing Data Mining into the Mainstream
Plumbing the world’s ever-growing pools of digitized information—on the Web, in corporate databases, generated by scientific research—for wisdom and profit is a...
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