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How to Cope When the World Can Watch Everything You Do
In 1968, pop artist Andy Warhol declared that in the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes. As with many other predictions, it has not quite turned...
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Georgia Tech Students Compete at .k. Video Game Competition
Five Georgia Tech students will be the first team from the United States to participate in Dare to Be Digital, a 10-week challenge in the United Kingdom where teams...
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IBM Exploring Voice-Driven Web For the Developing World
IBM Research India has launched the Spoken Web, a network designed to use phones, not computers, to bring information on the Web to mainly under-served populations...
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Virtual Privacy
Northeastern University professor Alan Mislove, whose research focuses on how people interact in the virtual world, says that many patterns of human interaction...
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'imaginary' Interface Could Replace Real Thing
German researchers are developing Imaginary Interfaces, an interface system for mobile devices that would replace the screen and keyboard with gestures supported...
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Nsf, Nih to Measure Federal Science Funding Impact
The U.S. National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation have launched STAR METRICS, an initiative to measure the impact of federal investment in...
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Archive Project Will Digitize Wwii Enigma Messages
British historians have launched a project to digitize messages intercepted from Germany's Enigma machine during World War II. The encrypted messages were decoded...
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Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Soon to Arrive in Ghana
The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE) has partnered with the EU Pascal2 Network of Excellence to establish an artificial intelligence...
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Researchers: Poor Password Practices Hurt Security for All
University of Cambridge researchers recently completed a large study of password-protected Web sites and found that a lack of industry standards harms end-user...
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IBM to Open Research Lab in Brazil
IBM announced that it will open a research laboratory in Brazil that will focus on developing technology systems for natural resource development and large-scale...
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Thumbs Up For Gesture-Based Computing
Fashion crime it may be, but a multicoloured dayglo glove could bring Minority Report-style computing to your home PC.
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Verizon Strives to Close Iphone Gap
When Steve Jobs wrapped up his announcement of the new iPhone 4, another big Apple Inc. event had come and gone with no mention of Verizon Wireless.
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Traffic Technology For a Cooperative Commute?
Thanks to new 'intelligent traffic' technology developed by European researchers, drivers could be in for a chattier, more cooperative commute.
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Aiming to Boost Performance, Researchers Capture Images of Sub-Nano Pore Structures
Scientists have imaged pore structures in insulation material at sub-nanometer scale for the first time. Understanding these structures could substantially enhance...
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China Issues White Paper on Internet Policy
The Chinese government Tuesday published a white paper on its Internet policy, stressing the guarantee of citizens' freedom of speech on the Internet and more intensive...
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Working Toward the Next Battery Breakthrough
With 140 U.S. patents on energy storage to her name, University of Buffalo Distinguished Professor Esther Takeuchi brings a fresh perspective on coaxing better...
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Isaca Identifies Top Five Social Media Risks For Business
An ISACA white paper names the top five social media risks for businesses and recommends solutions to help address the security, customer service and corporate...
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Mobile Chips Threaten High-Performance Manufacturers
At the end of 2009, Intel was shipping about 80 percent of all x86 processors--the type of chip that powers, for example, Windows-based personal computers. AMD...
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Researcher's Robots Learn From Environment, Not Programming
University of Arizona professor Ian Fasel's Concept Learning from Intrinsically Motivated sensory-motor Experience project is researching what robots are able to...
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