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Software Builds 3-D Models From Search Results
University of North Carolina researchers have developed software that can create 3D models of landmarks and geographical locations using 2D photos from online photo...
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How the University of Utah Turns Academic Research Into Successful Startups
The University of Utah ranks first in the U.S. in terms of creating startups based upon campus research. Here are four reasons for its great success.
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Promoting Science, and Google, to Students
Google is synonymous with "search engine," and now, for students, it wants to be synonymous with "science."
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Google Goes Shopping For Patents
Google has made a $900m bid for the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks, the bankrupt Canadian telecom equipment maker. The patents could help arm it against...
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Where Will Larry Page Lead Google?
In the 10 years since the last time Larry Page was Google's chief executive, the company has changed a bit. It has gone from an ambitious startup to a publicly...
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Gravity Satellite Yields 'potato Earth' View
It looks like a giant potato in space. And yet, the information in this model is the sharpest view we have of how gravity varies across the Earth.
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Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library
Is the tantalizing dream of a universal library dead? Some scholars and librarians across the country fear it may be, now that a federal judge in New York has...
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Google Making App that Would Identify People's Faces
Google is working on a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people's faces in order to access their personal information, a director...
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Social Search, Without a Social Network
Google may be built on an algorithm for taming the Web, but yesterday the company added social features that will let your friends help determine what ranks high...
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Wireless Networks Coming to .s. Subway Systems, Slowly
Years after Wi-Fi connections have become ubiquitous on university campuses, in coffee shops, and in public buildings, the ability to connect to the Internet...
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Social-Media Tools sed to Target Corporate Secrets
Not long after airstrikes began in Libya earlier this month, certain attorneys at four U.S. law firms, known for having high-profile clients in the oil industry...
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Deciphering Old Texts, One Woozy, Curvy Word at a Time
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAS) are being used to transform old texts riddled with smudges, crooked type,...
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Online 3D Insect Sleuth Tells Friend From Foe
A new online system could make it easier for Australia to identify invasive fire ants, which were accidentally imported into the country two decades ago.
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'gamifying' The System To Create Better Behavior
Say you're zooming down the highway, when you spot one of those speed-limit enforcement cameras from the corner of your eye. You hit the brakes, but not before...
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In a New Web World, No Application Is an Island
The Web is poised for a comeback. How’s that? Isn’t the Web already the crucial utility of online commerce, information and entertainment? In many ways, it certainly...
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First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, Messenger captured this historic image of Mercury, the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's...
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China 'to Overtake .s. on Science' in Two Years
China is on course to overtake the U.S. in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013—far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by...
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With Google's Gift, . of Oregon Expands International Cyberinfrastructure
A University of Oregon nonprofit that has provided networking technology and training to some of the world’s poorest nations has received a $1.25 million check...
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Benchmark Battle: Chrome vs. Ie vs. Firefox
There's no doubt the latest crop of stable browsers from Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are the best the companies have ever produced. But how do they perform...
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