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Anticipating Computational Fashion
Wearable technologies are poised to move beyond the wrist.
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Giving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
Most robots on a factory floor are fairly ham-handed: Equipped with large pincers or claws, they are designed to perform simple maneuvers, such as grabbing an object...
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New Online Exploring Tools Bring NASA's Journey to Mars to New Generation
On the three-year anniversary of the Mars landing of NASA's Curiosity rover, NASA is unveiling two new online tools that open the mysterious terrain of the Redjourney...
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Securing Today's Data Against Tomorrow's Quantum Computers
Microsoft researchers consider it vital for encryption upgrades to be developed now, to anticipate quantum computing's decryption potential.
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Xsede Panel Highlights Diversity of Nsf Computing Resources
A panel at the XSEDE15 conference highlighted the broad spectrum of computing resources the U.S. National Science Foundation has made available in recent years. ...
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Remember Conficker? It's Still Around
Malware called Conficker began widely infecting computers in 2008; about 1 million computers worldwide are still infected despite years of cleanup efforts.
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Robotic Insect Mimics Nature's Extreme Moves
Researchers at Harvard University and Seoul National University say they have developed a robotic insect that can jump on the surface of water.
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U.s. Researchers Show Computers Can Be Hijacked to Send Data As Sound Waves
A team of security researchers has demonstrated the ability to hijack standard equipment inside computers, printers and millions of other devices in order to send...
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Apple and Google Know What You Want Before You Do
Apple Inc. and Google Inc. are racing to anticipate the needs of their users.
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The Computing Power Behind the Large Hadron Collider
CERN project manager Bob Jones recently discussed the Large Hadron Collider's massive supporting computing infrastructure.
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From a Million Miles Away, Nasa Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth
A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last...
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Cyber Attack: How Easy Is It to Take Out a Smart City?
When is a smart city not so smart?
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Welcome to the Metaverse
Ebbe Altberg needs about a paragraph to define human life: "What humans do is create spaces," the gregarious 51-year-old executive says, leaning back at a table...
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Self-Building 3D Printed Bricks Hint at Future Without Assembly Lines
Bar-Ilan University researchers have used an algorithm to show that high frequency vibrations can cause bricks to self-assemble into a larger three-dimensional...
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Siebel Institute Seeks to Make the Smart Grid Smarter
The Siebel Energy Institute has a mission to meet the challenge of enhancing the global power grid with intelligent software.
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Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs
Researchers discovered Mac computers can be affected by known firmware bugs, and created a proof-of-concept worm.
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For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program
The Xiaoice smartphone chatbot introduced in China by Microsoft last year has gained a major following, with people turning to it for comfort and sympathy.
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This Is What Controversies Look Like in the Twittersphere
Kiran Garimella and colleagues at Aalto University in Finland say they have developed a more reliable way of spotting controversies in the Twitterstream in real...
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Alan Turing Institute p and Running
The U.K.'s national institute for the development and use of advanced mathematics, computer science, algorithms and 'Big Data' will start research activities in...
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