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Hi-Tech Sensors Aim to Help Prevent Obesity
The European Union is funding a project that intends to use high-tech sensors to get young people to adopt healthy lifestyles.
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By Cracking Cellphone Code, Nsa Has Capacity For Decoding Private Conversations
The U.S. National Security Agency is able to crack the A5/1 encryption technology used on most cellphones worldwide.
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Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat, and Atlas have joined Google's growing robot menagerie.
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Show S a Better Way Than Collecting Metadata, Nsa Director Says to Critics
Critics of the U.S. National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. residents' telephone records should offer a better way to track terrorists and protect the...
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Nasa's Chief Scientist on Mars, Moons, and Money
Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan joined NASA in August as the agency's chief scientist, an overarching role in which she advises on the science of all NASA programmes...
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New Results Send Mars Rover on a Quest For Ancient Life
When the Curiosity rover landed in Gale crater 16 months ago, its goal was to find a place on Mars that was habitable 4 billion years ago.
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Home Appliance Makers Connect with Open Source 'internet of Things' Project
The AllSeen Alliance has developed an open source framework to enable systems to discover, connect, and interact with each other, regardless of manufacturer or...
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Hipster, Surfer or Biker? Computers May Soon Be Able to Tell the Difference
Researchers are developing an algorithm that uses group pictures to determine what urban tribe a specific person belongs to, with up to 48-percent accuracy.
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Artificial Intelligence Goes Public
Researchers from several U.K. institutions are collaborating on a project that will use robots to serve as a proxy for people in public spaces.
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Hundreds of Teens Attend Computer Science Education Day at Cal
The University of California, Berkeley held its annual Computer Science Education Day on Dec. 10, drawing hundreds of students from across the Bay Area.
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Cloud Power Issue Looms, Says Cisco CTO
Cisco Systems technologists say it is crucial for the U.S. government to fund basic research into future power consumption issues.
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President Obama Talks About Teaching Everyone to Code. This Professor Does It.
On Monday, President Obama kicked off computer science education week, encouraging every young person to acquire computer programming skills, even if they have...
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For Steve Ballmer, a Lasting Touch on Microsoft
On the eve of his exit as chief executive officer of Microsoft, after more than a decade on the job, Steve Ballmer is more than ever a CEO whose image does not...
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Computational Linguists Predict Time's 'person of the Year' Using Computer Model
Computational linguists developed a quantitative model that predicted Time's "Person of the Year" for 2013 would be President Barack Obama.
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New App Puts Political Engagement in Your Pocket
The free iCitizen app was designed to offer a quick and easy way for smartphone users to become educated on political issues of concern to them.
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Skin Pigment Could Power Safe, Implantable Battery
A battery made with the skin pigment melanin could one day provide power for electronic devices installed within the human body.
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Edward Snowden, The Dark Prophet
To avoid surveillance, the first four Americans to visit Edward Snowden in Moscow carried no cell phones or laptops.
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Inside the Effort to Kill a Web Fraud 'botnet'
For months, investigators at Microsoft Corp. hunkered down in front of their computer monitors, patiently stalking the shadowy figures behind what the company says...
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Algorithms Are Watching
New research involves the use of algorithms in data mining and the analysis of social networks to study how information moves within large social graphs.
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