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Biology's Master Programmers
George Church is an imposing figure—over six feet tall, with a large, rectangular face bordered by a brown and silver nest of beard and topped by a thick mop of...
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Silicon Valley's Top Threat Is China, Survey Finds
Many high-level technology executives are convinced that some other country, probably China, will supplant Silicon Valley as the global center for innovation within...
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Google's Futuristic Glasses Move Closer to Reality
Google recently announced that it is selling a prototype of its Internet-connected glasses, known as Google Glasses, to U.S. computer programmers for $1,500, hoping...
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Scientists Develop Method For Authenticating Digital Images By Analyzing 'noise'
University at Albany computer scientist Siwei Lyu and colleagues have identified a method of using "noise" to authenticate digital photography.
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'leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web
Reddit, Mozilla, Gawker, and possibly many other web outfits experienced brief technical problems on Saturday evening, when software underpinning their online operations...
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Researchers se Spoofing to 'hack' Into a Flying Drone
American researchers took control of a flying drone by hacking into its GPS system—acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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A Robot Takes Stock
The short figure creeping around the Carnegie Mellon University campus store in a hooded sweatshirt recently isn't some shoplifter, but a robot taking inventory...
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A Look Inside Leap Motion, the 3D Gesture Control That's Like Kinect on Steroids
Leap Motion's not the household name Kinect is, but it should be; the company's motion-tracking system is more powerful, more accurate, smaller, cheaper, and just...
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'leap Second' Lengthens Weekend
The world is about to get a well-earned long weekend but don't make big plans because it will only last an extra second. A so-called "leap second" will be added...
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Minitel: The Rise and Fall of the France-Wide Web
Many years ago, long before the birth of the Web, there was a time when France was the happening-est place in the digital universe.
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How Google Is Teaching Computers to See
Google is attempting to teach computers to recognize human faces without telling the computing algorithms which faces are human.
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Design Reduces Nanowire Transistor Footprint
A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics researchers have integrated two transistors onto a single vertical silicon nanowire, which they say could further push the...
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Voice Algorithms Spot Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's is a devastating disease for those living with the condition, and currently there is no cure. Diagnosis can also be slow, as there are no blood tests...
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It's Not an Entertainment Gadget, It's Google's Bid to Control the Future
Joe Britt hands me his latest creation, a black ball with glittering LED lights around the middle, and implores me to examine it.
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Graph500 Adds New Measurement of Supercomputing Performance
The Graph500 executive committee recently announced new specifications for a more representative way to rate large-scale data analytics in high-performance computing...
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Computer Science Tackles 30-Year-Old Economics Problem
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for finding an almost perfect approximation of the optimal design of a multi-item auction.
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Bot With Boyish Personality Wins Biggest Turing Test
The chatbot Eugene Goostman fooled Turing test judges 29 percent of the time into thinking it was human to take first place in the recent contest in the United...
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You Will Want Google Goggles
At first glance, Thad Starner does not look out of place at Google. A pioneering researcher in the field of wearable computing, Starner is a big, charming man with...
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How Many Computers to Identify a Cat? 16,000
Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several...
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