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Underwater Drones Giving More Eyes to Police Harbor Unit as Searches Grow
With President Obama in town last week, things were busy for the New York Police Department's Harbor Unit. Federal security agents were disseminating lists of...
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Microsoft's Kinect: A Robot's Low-Cost, Secret Weapon
As robots seek to mimic humans' ability to see and hear, they have a secret weapon in Microsoft's Kinect game motion-sensing controller.
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Scientists Striving to Put a Human Face on the Robot Generation
Plymouth University researchers are studying the social interaction between humans and LightFace, a robot that is capable of producing a range of naturalistic expressions...
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Supercomputers Take a Cue From Microwave Ovens
To develop more efficient supercomputers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers are studying consumer electronics such as microwave ovens, cameras,...
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A High-Stakes Search Continues for Silicon's Successor
In a cluttered chip-making laboratory on Stanford's campus, Max Shulaker is producing the world's smallest computer circuits by hand.
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New Efforts to Extend Moore's Law
Continually needing to add computing power to its microprocessors, Santa Clara behemoth Intel this year announced it was venturing beyond its traditional method...
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Researchers Find Some Smartphone Models More Vulnerable to Attack
The preloaded applications of some smartphones specifically designed to support the Android mobile platform could make the devices more vulnerable to hackers, according...
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Will Microsoft's 'minority Report' i Leap-Frog Apple?
Although Apple has pioneered the mainstream multitouch user interface (UI), Microsoft could provide the next major UI breakthrough by combining voice, touch, and...
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Dawn Soars Over Asteroid Vesta in 3D
Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images...
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Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth, Say Computer Scientists
Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce.
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The Search For Analysts to Make Sense of 'big Data'
Businesses keep vast troves of data about things like online shopping behavior, or millions of changes in weather patterns, or trillions of financial transactions—information...
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Following Digital Breadcrumbs to 'big Data' Gold
What do Facebook, Groupon, and biotech firm Human Genome Sciences have in common? They all rely on massive amounts of data to design their products. Terabytes...
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Dna Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data
BGI, based in China, is the world’s largest genomics research institute, with 167 DNA sequencers producing the equivalent of 2,000 human genomes a day.
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Researchers Reduce Smart Phones Power Consumption By More Than 70 Percent
Aalto University researchers have developed new ways to significantly reduce power consumption for smartphones, particularly in locations that do not have reliable...
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Drone Pilots: The Future of Aerial Warfare
To understand how important remotely piloted aircraft are to the U.S. military, consider this: The U.S. Air Force says this year it will train more drone pilots...
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Robots in Reality
Consider the following scenario: A scout surveys a high-rise building that's been crippled by an earthquake, trapping workers inside. After looking for a point...
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Five Reasons the .s. Tech Lead Is in Danger
The United States is falling behind other countries in the race to build the next generation of supercomputers.
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Linking Supercomputers to Simulate the Sun, the Climate and the Human Body
The European Union funded research that developed a European infrastructure for supercomputing, enabling researchers to simulate the fusion of the sun, create new...
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A Computer That Thinks Like the niverse
The development of a quantum computer would be another leap forward for the computing industry, writes the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Joshua Rothman...
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