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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Researchers Say Web Searches Are Good Predictors of Success
Web searches are an indicator of the success of movies, games, and songs, according to a Yahoo! research group. Although the study found that traditional predictors...
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Should Code Be Released?
Software code can provide important insights into the results of research, but it's up to individual scientists whether their code is released---and many opt not...
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Personal Fabrication
Open source 3D printers could herald the start of a new industrial revolution.
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Linear Logic
A novel approach to computational logic is reaching maturity, opening up opening up new vistas in programming languages, proof nets, and security applications.
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Dancing Robot Swan Triggers Emotions
Researchers at Sweden's Malardalen University have created a robot in the form of a swan that can dance to the music of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
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Island Dreams to Become Virtual Reality
A European research project will update three-dimensional versions of Mediterranean islands automatically with current information from a range of public and private...
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Intel Touts
Intel has joined the parade of companies trying to beam video to your TV. The chipmaker is betting on “WiDi,” its technology for streaming media wirelessly from...
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Disembodied Performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab professor Tod Machover has spent more than a decade inventing the technology for a new opera premiering in September...
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Intel Puts Game Physics in the Cloud
Simulating the physics of light makes for games that better mimic the real world.
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The Next Stage of Online Video Evolution
HTML5 is changing the look of Web video, but can it edge out Flash?
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Museum Displays Personal Computer, Video Game Collection
The small town of Brantford, Ontario, located about an hour west of Toronto, has been been gaining a reputation, in nerd circles at least, as home to the Personal...
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Video Games Lead to Faster Decisions That Are No Less Accurate
Cognitive scientists have discovered that playing action video games trains people to make the right decisions faster. Gamers' heightened sensitivity improves a...
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Apple Blinks in Apps Fight
In an uncharacteristic about-face, Apple Inc. loosened its control over software development for its iPhones and iPads as the company feels heat from a U.S. antitrust...
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Future Technology in the NFL
In the years ahead, the National Football League looks set to dial up some new tech blitzes that will make the game fairer and safer. Among the technologies most...
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To Win Over Users, Gadgets Have to Be Touchable
Whoever said technology was dehumanizing was wrong. On screens everywhere—cellphones, e-readers, A.T.M.’s—as Diana Ross sang, we just want to reach out and touch...
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Tech Research Customizes Tv sers' Preferences
Intel researchers have developed a way TV remote controls can identify users based on their viewing preferences and how they hold the remote, which could help advance...
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3-D Movies Via Internet and Satellite
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications have developed the Multiview Video Coding compression technique for three-dimensional movies that...
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Now You Can Earn Virtual Currency By Watching Ads
You know the type—social game addicts who pepper your Facebook page with updates about the wine recipe they created playing "FarmVille," or the gem broker they...
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Virtual Farm Games Absorb Real Money, Real Lives
Last century's cash crops included tobacco, cotton, and sugar cane. Now we have magic cauliflower and super berries, too—and even though they can't be sold at...
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