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Computers Can Sense Sarcasm? Yeah, Right
Researchers at the University of Turin and Yahoo! have developed software that can identify the expression of sarcasm on social media and the Web.
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Auto, Technology Industries Clash Over Talking Cars
Cars that wirelessly talk to each other are finally ready for the road, creating the potential to dramatically reduce traffic deaths, improve the safety of self...
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Linux Took Over the Web. Now, It’s Taking Over the World
The roots of Linux stretch all the way back to the creation of Unix at AT&T’s Bell Labs in 1969.
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This Little-Known Pioneering Educator Put Coding in the Classroom
Papert argued that learning was most successful when students were engaged in creative acts – when they were making things.
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All the Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You
City dwellers spend nearly every moment of every day awash in Wi-Fi signals.
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Streamlining Accelerated Computing For Industry
Researchers have developed open source software that will enable computational fluid dynamics applications to make good use of supercomputers.
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World's Biggest Telescope Meets World's Second-Fastest Supercomputer
A component of the software system that will manage data from the Square Kilometer Array telescope has run on Tianhe-2, the world's second-fastest supercomputer...
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After 25 Years, a New Web
Tim Berners-Lee and others want a more reliable Web that ensures integrity and privacy.
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Blockchain Could Bring Electronic Voting to Australia By 2017
Australia intends to employ blockchain technology to let citizens vote online.
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Researchers Create 3D Faces From Online Photos to Defeat Face Authentication Systems
Researchers say they have developed a virtual reality-based cyberattack that can reproduce the human face well enough to trick face-authentication systems.
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Princeton Develops 25-Core Chip For Servers
Researchers at Princeton University have developed Piton, a chip they believe can significantly boost server performance while reducing energy consumption.
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Harvey Mudd College Took on Gender Bias and Now More Than Half Its Computer-Science Majors Are Women
This year, at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, for the first time, more women than men graduated with a degree in computer science.
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How an Algorithm Learned to Identify Depressed Individuals By Studying Their Instagram Photos
Researchers have trained a machine-learning algorithm to spot warning signs for depression on Instagram by analyzing the composition of posted images.
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Hints Suggest an Insider Helped the Nsa 'equation Group' Hacking Tools Leak
A group called the Shadow Brokers made headlines this month by leaking a hacking tool belonging to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) team. Now this week...
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Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web
Internauts, today we celebrate this glorious technology that brings us all together! On August 23, 1991--25 years ago today--the public gained access for the first...
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Linux Turns 25, Is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever
The Linux operating system kernel is 25 years old this month. It was August 25, 1991 when Linus Torvalds posted his famous message announcing the project, claiming...
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Powerful New Metric Quickly Reveals Network Structure at Multiple Scales
Researchers at the Santa Fe Institute and the University of Barcelona have developed a metric that bypasses the limitations associated with other methods of network...
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Algorithms Can Be More Fair Than Humans
Although data-driven decisions can be biased and unfair, research suggests this same methodology may make it easier to identify such biases.
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