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The Future of the Internet Is Social
The IMDEA Networks Institute successfully achieved the eCOUSIN research project objective of designing an innovative network architecture that improves the efficiency...
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Summon the Comfy Chairs!
Researchers in Europe and the United States are developing a bevy of roboticized furniture they think will fill the gap between simpler domestic robots such as...
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Lovin' Their Elevator: Why Germans Are Loopy About Their Revolving Lifts
As the paternoster cabin in which he was slowly descending into the bowels of Stuttgart's town hall plunged into darkness, Dejan Tuco giggled infectiously.
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For Virtual-Reality Movies, Old Methods Don't Fit New Medium
I'm standing on the bow of what looks to be a sunken pirate ship.
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Building the Next New York Times Recommendation Engine
The New York Times publishes over 300 articles, blog posts and interactive stories a day.
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DARPA Wants to Transform Vacuum Electronics For Superior Communications, Data Transmissions
DARPA wants to improve the performance and reliability of vacuum electronic devices, critical components of defense and civilian systems that require high power...
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Human and Organizational Factors Influence Software Quality
New research from Frank Philip Seth, a doctoral student at Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland, proposes that human factors in the software development...
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See Through Walls By the Glow of Your Wi-Fi
University College London researchers have developed a system that can sense people moving behind masonry walls 25 centimeters thick using only passive radiation...
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Rosetta Comet Outburst Captured
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has been witnessing growing activity from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the comet approaches perihelion (its...
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Tantalizing Discovery May Boost Memory Technology
Scientists at Rice University have created a solid-state memory technology based on tantalum oxide. Professor James Tour says the technology could be used to make...
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Bird-Brained Drones?
Researchers are studying birds and insects in order to make drone flight second nature.
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Octopus Genome Holds Clues to Uncanny Intelligence
With its eight prehensile arms lined with suckers, camera-like eyes, elaborate repertoire of camouflage tricks and spooky intelligence, the octopus is like no other...
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Don't Panic, but the Universe Is Slowly Dying
We know that our universe has already lived through great number of exciting phases. But new research shows the universe has long passed its peak and is slowly...
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Human Weakness in Cybersecurity
The Joint Chiefs of Staff unclassified email system is now back online, after having been down for more than two weeks, following a breach that some officials have...
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Testing Trust in Autonomous Vehicles By Fooling Human Passengers
A team at Stanford University's Center for Design Research has developed the Real Road Autonomous Driving Simulation that fools human participants into thinking...
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For 40 Years, Computer Scientists Looked For a Solution That Doesn't Exist
Creating a faster method for performing the "edit distance" calculation — a challenge computer scientists have worked on for four decades — was demonstrated as...
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France and Spain Team Up to Jumpstart Europe's Exascale Computing Ambitions
France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission and Spain's Barcelona Supercomputing Center have announced a high-performance computing partnership to...
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Depth-Sensing Camera Gleans 3-D Info in Bright Sunlight and Darkness
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Toronto have created a mathematical model to help address a major problem of depth-sensing cameras...
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The Backbone of the Internet Could Detect Earthquakes, but No One's sing It
December 26, 2004: It is an idyllic morning at a beachside resort in Indonesia.
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