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The Bbc Doesn't Want to Be Forgotten By Google
Since agreeing to comply with the European Court of Justice’s decision that people have the right to be forgotten, Google has received about 50,000 requests for...
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Thinking Out of the Flat Box: Software Renders Earth's Atmosphere in 3d Splendor
A Princeton University scientist has developed free software for use with a program that calculates the true spatial dimensions and curvature of Earth's atmosphere...
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Tibetan Altitude Gene Came from Extinct Human Species
Tibetans are comfortable at high altitudes where the air is thin.
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Virtual Flashlight Reveals Secrets of Ancient Artefacts
The Revealing Flashlight projects computer-generated models onto real objects, filling in missing details wherever the spotlight lands.
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How a Little Open Source Project Came to Dominate Big Data
It began as a nagging technical problem that needed solving.
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The AP's Newest Business Reporter Is an Algorithm
Journalistic earnings stories can feel robotic, even when written by a news organization as prestigious as the Associated Press.
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Microrobots Are the "bee's Knees" For Harvard Professor
At some point in the future, RoboBees may be able to perform the task of pollination.
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The $8.5m Race to Protect Planes From Cosmic Rays
It's an invisible, but looming threat from outer space: distant cosmic events that can cause a computer, or even an aircraft, to crash here on Earth.
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UA-Developed Technology Helps Find Happy Middle Between Low Temps and High Bills
A monitor developed by researchers at the University of Arizona allows consumers to set the temperature in their homes based on how much they want to spend on electricity...
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Hong Kong Researchers Develop 3D Tool For Surveillance Footage
A new digital system is designed to reduce the amount of time it takes investigators to search through surveillance camera footage for suspects.
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High-Performance Data Replication Across Cloud Servers
Computer scientists in China have developed a system that can provide high-performance data replication across cloud servers.
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What Your Cell Phone Can't Tell the Police
On May 28th, Lisa Marie Roberts, of Portland, Oregon, was released from prison after serving nine and a half years for a murder she didn't commit.
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The Space-Based Quantum Cryptography Race
One of the great benefits of quantum communication is the ability to send messages from one point in space to another with perfect security.
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New N.s.a. Chief Calls Damage From Snowden Leaks Manageable
The newly installed director of the National Security Agency says that while he has seen some terrorist groups alter their communications to avoid surveillance...
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Researchers Find and Decode the Spy Tools Governments se to Hijack Phones
A study of tools used by law enforcment and intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance on computer and mobile phone users revealed a wide range of functions. ...
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The Great Salmon Run Algorithm
Researchers say a new algorithm based on the survival trials faced by salmon swimming upstream to spawn can help them find the optimal solution to a given problem...
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Ray Kurzweil Says He's Breathing Intelligence Into Google Search
The big announcements at Google's I/O event in San Francisco Wednesday didn't mention Web search, the technology that got the company started and made it so successful...
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Make Robots seful By Teaching Them to Talk Like S
When Ashutosh Saxena wants some coffee or ice cream, he can ask a robot to make it for him.
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Larry Page on Google's Many Arms
One way to think of Google is as an extremely helpful, all-knowing, hyper-intelligent executive assistant.
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