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A Quicker Way to Pair Smartphones: Shake Them
Tampere University of Technology researchers say they have developed a fast and easy way to pair two smartphones to swap photos, documents, or other data. The...
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3-D Cursors Sculpt at Siggraph
University of Montreal researchers demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 2015 a system that uses a tablet to control a three-dimensional cursor that can be used to draw and...
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Algorithm Aims to Combat Science's Reproducibility Problem
University of Pennsylvania researchers are developing data-mining tools designed to make it easier to know which information is relevant, and when a correlation...
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Scientist Fêted for 'Game-Changing' Research on Wireless Networks
UC Irvine professor Syed Jafar recently won the 2015 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists for his work on network information theory. Jafar's work could...
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With Google as Alphabet, a Bid to Dream Big Beyond Search
Shortly after its founding, Google posted a document on its site called "Ten things we know to be true," an effort to distill its unusual corporate culture into...
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Web's Random Numbers Are Too Weak, Researchers Warn
A study found shortcomings in the generation of the random numbers used to scramble or encrypt data.
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Cruise Over Ceres in New Video
Striking 3-D detail highlights a towering mountain, the brightest spots and other features on dwarf planet Ceres in a new video from NASA's Dawn mission.
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Cyberattacks as Significant as Traditional Threats, Says Battleship Manufacturer
Warfare is increasingly being fought from behind computer screens rather than on the battlefield, forcing weapons manufacturers to consider the myriad of threats...
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How the Rubber-Duck Comet Got Its Shape
A year after the Rosetta space mission went into orbit around a comet shaped like a rubber duck, scientists say that they have worked out how the dusty iceball...
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Google's $6 Billion Miscalculation on the Eu
As the global elite gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and four other executives from the Internet...
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Supercomputer Race Heats Up as China Bans Exports of High-Performance Machines
China is curbing exports of its high-performance machines in an apparent attempt to stay one step ahead of the U.S. in a race for the world's fastest supercomputer...
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Extreme Access Flyer to Take Planetary Exploration Airborne
Swamp Works engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are inventing a flying robotic vehicle that can gather samples on other worlds in places inaccessible...
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MIT Camera Culture Group Develops the 'eyeselfie' to Help Monitor Eye Health
eyeSelfie is a low-cost handheld device for taking images of one's own retina, optic nerve, and the vasculature at the back of the eye.
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Teach Your Robot to Do the Dishes
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a robot that can help people wash their dishes.
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Code 'transplant" Could Revolutionize Programming
A new software tool is capable of automatically isolating the code of a feature in one program and "transplanting" it into another program.
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Children Beating p Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System
An experiment to see how mall patrons react to a social robot surprisingly found children were hostile toward the robot.
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A Supercomputer in the Palm of Your Hand
Researchers are investigating the possibility of using smartphone processors as energy-efficient alternatives to current supercomputer components.
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Why the Ftc Is Showing p at Hackers' Biggest Conferences
The Federal Trade Commission, the de facto federal watchdog for consumers' privacy and data security, knows it needs help.
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This Hacker's Tiny Device nlocks Cars and Opens Garages
The next time you press your wireless key fob to unlock your car, if you find that it doesn’t beep until the second try, the issue may not be a technical glitch...
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