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Baggage Claim: Airlines Are Winning the War on Lost Luggage
The number of bags delayed, damaged or lost by airlines has fallen by more than half since the industry hit a low point for lost luggage six years ago.
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Social Media Garden Is First Step in Creating 'emotional' Buildings
Computer scientists and architects are exploring whether architecture is able to reflect and map human emotions.
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A Fast Look at Swift, Apple's New Programming Language
If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren't making any public predictions.
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How Ebay's Research Laboratories Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Fashion Recommendations
If you've ever puzzled over what to wear in the morning, you might also have wondered whether you could leave the choice to an algorithm that could recommend a...
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Tweets and Machine Learning Reveal Surprising Patterns of Happiness
Determining life satisfaction by geography, based on tweets.
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How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
Four experts at Applied Research Associates discuss the augmented reality system they created for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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'beam Me Up, Data'
Researchers say they have succeeded in teleporting information between qubits in different computer chips.
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Is It a Crow or a Raven? New Birdsnap App Will Tell You!
Birdsnap is a new smartphone app that uses computer vision and machine-learning techniques to produce an electronic field guide to North American birds.
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Team Develops a Software Able to Identify and Track an Specific Individual Within a Group
Researchers say they have taken a new approach to monitoring animals that move in groups, with hopes of learning their rules of interaction.
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Why Did the Justice Department Indict Five Chinese Military Officers?
At first glance, the Justice Department's 31-count indictment of five Chinese military officers for hacking into the computers of six American corporations, in...
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.s. Companies Seek Cyber Experts For Top Jobs, Board Seats
Some of the largest U.S. companies are looking to hire cybersecurity experts in newly elevated positions and bring technologists on to their boards, a sign that...
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Computer Worms
The informal, crowd-funded OpenWorm project aims to develop the world's first simulated organism, a worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans.
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Brokers se 'billions' of Data Points to Profile Americans
Are you a financially strapped working mother who smokes?
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How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
Six years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decided that they had a new dream. The agency wanted a system that would overlay digital tactical...
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Google’s Experimental Smartphone Captures a Future Mapped in 3D
Google's Project Tango prototype Android smartphone could make it easier, faster, and less expensive to scan and map the world in 3D.
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How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic
"In the early morning hours of June 1, 2009, Air France Flight AF 447, with 228 passengers and crew aboard, disappeared during stormy weather over the Atlantic...
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Mint Program Helps Pinpoint Threats Contained in Intelligence Data
Researchers are working to improve the capabilities of the U.S. Multi-Disciplinary Intelligence system, which monitors incoming intelligence data.
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Computers Learn Better Reading Comprehension Through t Research
A University of Twente researcher has developed a way to help computers improve their understanding of written texts.
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Google ses Artificial Brains to Teach Its Data Centers How to Behave
At Google, artificial intelligence isn't just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online...
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