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Navigation App Gives You Freedom to Explore
Swansea University's Simon Robinson and colleagues have developed a smartphone navigation application that gives pedestrians the opportunity to explore unfamiliar...
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Pew Study: We've Got Phone Apps, But Not All of S Are sing Them
Thirty-five percent of adults in the United States have "apps," or software programs on their cell phones now, but only 24 percent of them are actually using...
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Computers
A trio of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professors has launched a new high-performance computing center that will expand access to the supercomputing...
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Crowdsourcing Peer Review
It is the greatest question in computer science. A negative answer would likely give a fundamentally deeper understanding of the nature of computation. And a...
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Electronic Nose Sniffs Out Bacteria
Early treatment of infection in burn patients is critical. A European consortium has designed a point-of-care instrument that can identify types of bacteria from...
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Iphone App May Replace Stethoscope
iPhones can function as stethoscopes using a new application developed by a University College of London computer scientist and cardiologist researchers. The app...
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How to Remake Life
Venter Institute researchers have made the first viable cell with a synthetic genome.
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Season For High Science
Hurricanes on both coasts are test beds for new forecasting tools.
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Google Finding Its Voice
Google's Mike Cohen won't be satisfied until anyone who wants to talk to their computer can do so without laughing at the hideous translation or sighing in frustration...
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The Mind's Eye: How the Brain Sorts Out What You See
Can you tell a snake from a pretzel? Some can't—and their experiences are revealing how the brain builds up a coherent picture of the world.
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.s. Escalates Air War Over Afghanistan
There may not be quite as many bombs falling from the sky. But don’t let that fool you. The United States has dramatically escalated its air war over Afghanistan...
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Shake to Adjust Your Smartphone's Privacy Settings
Open University's Lukasz Jedrzejczyk led the development of Privacy Shake, an application that enables users with global positioning system-enabled smartphones...
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Google Gives Real-Time Search Its Own Page
Google is digging deeper into real-time search, with a new search page that displays only results from timely sources, like updates from Twitter and other social...
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Software Helps Scientists Conduct Hurricane Research
Scientists studying how and why Atlantic hurricanes form will have a better chance of getting the data they need thanks to flight planning software developed at...
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W3c Launches Web Performance Working Group
A new W3C working group will focus on improving the measurement of Web application performance times.The Web Performance Working Group will initially create a common...
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Supercomputers Supermodel Supermassive Black Holes
What happens when two black holes smash into each another? They form an even larger black hole while driving jets of relativistic matter into the far reaches...
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Degrees, Distance, and Dollars
The Internet is making higher education accessible to a whole new class of students—but not necessarily at a lower cost.
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Brains and Bytes
Computational neuroscientists are learning that the brain is like a computer, except when it isn't.
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Scientists Hack Into Cars' Computers
It sounds like a Hollywood movie: cybercriminals in a van use a laptop to hack wirelessly into the computer-controlled systems of the car on the road ahead. In...
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