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This Underwater Microphone Could Find the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
Authorities are all but certain Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down in the south Indian Ocean in water that may be as deep as 23,000 feet.
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How Your Tweets Reveal Your Home Location
An algorithm developed by IBM researchers exploits anyone's last 200 Twitter postings to reveal their home city location with nearly 70-percent accuracy.
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New Models in Cosmetics Replacing Animal Testing
A European law spurs scientists to develop computational simulations capable of predicting the toxicity of cosmetics.
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Using Patient Data For Personalized Cancer Treatments
Patient information databases eventually will help improve health outcomes and support development of new therapies.
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Computer Simulations Developed By Mu Researchers Help Predict Blast Scenarios, Also Have Crossover Appeal in Animation
University of Missouri researchers have developed computer-based methods for simulating building explosions.
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The Automotive Internet 'road Map' Is Becoming Easier to Read
Announcements herald greater focus on vehicle-based communication.
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Three Questions For Leslie Lamport, Winner of Computing's Top Prize
This year's winner of the Turing Award—often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing—was announced yesterday as Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist whose research...
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Ticket Pricing Puts 'lion King' Atop Broadway's Circle of Life
How did "The Lion King" turn around its once-shaky fortunes and become the top-grossing show on Broadway in 2013, an unprecedented feat for long-running musicals...
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The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot
Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake.
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Making Sense of Big Data
A University of California, Berkeley professor says he works "at the intersection of algorithms, machine learning, and collaborative crowdsourcing."
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New Wireless Network to Revolutionize Soil Testing
A new sensor-based approach to soil testing promises to offer a more suitable method for measuring changes over time.
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Diagnosing Diseases With Smart Phones
Researchers are developing a disease diagnostic system that offers results that could be read using a smartphone and an inexpensive lens attachment.
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Collecting Digital User Data Without Invading Privacy
Privada is a new a cryptographic method that makes it possible to simultaneously collect data and protect the privacy of the user.
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Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...
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Stanford's Folding@home Simulates Activation of Key Cancer Protein, Could Lead to Novel Drug Design
Stanford's Folding@home project has simulated Src Kinase, which plays an important role in many cancers.
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Microsoft Can Make the Walls of Your Room Display Web Pages
SurroundWeb is a prototype system for displaying Web pages on multiple projectors to display information on the walls of a room.
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The Quantified Computer Scientist: Larry Smarr on the Future of Medicine
A conversation with computer scientist Larry Smarr
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Software Maps Ambiguous Names in Texts to the Right Person
Rsearchers have developed AIDA, software that enables accurate disambiguation of named entities by analyzing them with the help of Wikipedia.
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Keeping Pace With the Data Explosion
Researchers have developed co-factorization machines that utilize mathematical analysis to study the interaction between social media users and tweets.
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