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Why Talking-to-Text Has Taken Off in China
Anyone who has ever written in Chinese on a computer, or composed a text message on their phone in that language, knows the typing process is not nearly as simple...
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System Improves Automated Monitoring of Security Cameras
MIT researchers have developed a system that can analyze several surveillance cameras more accurately and in less time than it would take a human operator.
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Prophets of Zoom
Deep-zooming software, known as zoomable user interfaces, enable information such as text, images, and video to sit on a single, limitless surface that can be viewed...
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Stuxnet Expert Calls .s. the 'good Guys' in Cyber-Warfare
Sitting in the front row for the first full day of the International Conference on Cyber Conflict was one of the industry’s foremost "rock star" researchers, ...
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Nations Must Talk to Halt 'cyber Terrorism': Kaspersky
Eugene Kaspersky, whose lab discovered the Flame virus that has attacked computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East, said on Wednesday only a global effort...
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Cyber-Attack Concerns Raised Over Boeing 787 Chip's 'back Door'
Two Cambridge experts have discovered a "back door" in a computer chip used in military systems and aircraft, such as the Boeing 787, that could allow the chip...
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Virtual Patient Under the Knife on Hi-Tech Operating Table
At St Mary's Hospital in London, surgeon Aimee Di Marco is about to cut up a body.
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Training Cells to Perform Boolean Functions? It's Logical
Johns Hopkins University researchers have engineered cells that behave like AND and OR Boolean logic gates, producing an output based on one or more unique inputs...
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Psc Provides Direct Link From Galaxy to the Xsede Backbone
Three Rivers Optical Exchange has established a high-bandwidth link from a Penn State bioinformatics program to the network backbone of the U.S. National Science...
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Idf Admits to Using Cyber Space to Attack Enemies
The IDF uses cyber space to gather intelligence, attack enemies, and conduct various military operations, the military revealed on Sunday in a posting on its official...
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Freaks, Geeks, and Microsoft
When the Kinect was introduced in November 2010 as a $150 motion-control add-on to Microsoft's Xbox consoles, it drew attention from more than just video-gamers...
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Iran: 'flame' Virus Fight Began with Oil Attack
Computer technicians battling to contain a complex virus last month resorted to the ultimate firewall measures—cutting off Internet links to Iran’s Oil Ministry...
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S'pore Develops Chipset For Fast Data Transfer
A microchip developed in Singapore can transmit data 1,000 times faster than Bluetooth.
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With Goal-Line Tech, Soccer Tries Kicking Its Addiction to Human Error
Saturday's high-profile match between England and Belgium is the biggest test yet for a system that may finally put an end to flubbed goal-line calls, a technological...
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A Dive Into the Digital Deep
When next winter's storms subside, a specialized ship will begin a slow crossing, lowering a skinny cable into its wake along a precisely prescribed path: the shortest...
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'part-Time' Scientists Aim to Develop Autonomous Rover to Compete For Lunar X Prize
Some people try to make the most of their spare time by exercising, volunteering, or simply recharging their batteries. Others like to use that time to build robots...
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Iran 'finds Fix' For Sophisticated Flame Malware
Iran says it has developed tools that can defend against the sophisticated cyber attack tool known as Flame.
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Craig Venter Wants to Solve the World's Energy Crisis
There is one version of Craig Venter's life story where he would’ve been a dutiful scientist at the National Institutes of Health, a respected yet anonymous researcher...
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Was Flame Virus that Invaded Iran's Computer Networks Made in sa?
As the United Nations and Iran warn that the newly discovered Flame computer virus may be the most potent weapon of its kind, U.S. computer security experts tell...
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