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Tibetan Altitude Gene Came from Extinct Human Species
Tibetans are comfortable at high altitudes where the air is thin.
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Panel Endorses Some Nsa Internet Surveillance
A bipartisan privacy board on Wednesday unanimously adopted its report that endorses some of the National Security Agency's Internet surveillance programs.
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DARPA Robotics Challenge Gets Tougher
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is extending preparation time for the final round of its DARPA Robotics Challenge by six months.
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Could Color Wheels Make For Easier, More Secure Passwords?
The password as we know it is in critical condition.
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Can Google Design a Car Touchscreen That Isn't a Dangerous Distraction?
Automakers are increasingly integrating touchscreens into vehicles—to the dismay of safe-driving advocates, who justifiably fear people are already too distracted...
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Carnegie Mellon Machine Learning Method Automatically Cuts Boring Parts From Long Consumer and Security Videos
Smartphones, GoPro cameras, and Google Glass are making it easy for anyone to shoot video anywhere.
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Norway Internet Voting Experiment Fails
Norway has ended a pilot online voting program.
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Forecasting Future May One Day Become as Practical as Predicting Weather, Thanks to Big Data Advances
The Early Model Based Even Recognition using Surrogates (EMBERS) project was created to develop ways to use big data to forecast significant societal events.
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Virtual Flashlight Reveals Secrets of Ancient Artefacts
The Revealing Flashlight projects computer-generated models onto real objects, filling in missing details wherever the spotlight lands.
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Ask the Crowd: Robots Learn Faster, Better With Online Helpers
University of Washington computer scientists have discovered crowdsourcing is an effective way to teach robots.
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Number of Women Entering IT Continues to Decline, Says BCS Report
A new report finds girls in the U.K. who study computing and information and communications technology at A-level perform at a higher level than boys.
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Quantum State May Be a Real Thing
At the very heart of quantum mechanics lies a monster waiting to consume unwary minds.
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How a Little Open Source Project Came to Dominate Big Data
It began as a nagging technical problem that needed solving.
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The AP's Newest Business Reporter Is an Algorithm
Journalistic earnings stories can feel robotic, even when written by a news organization as prestigious as the Associated Press.
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The NSA Revelations All in One Chart
This is a plot of the NSA programs revealed in the past year.
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Microrobots Are the "bee's Knees" For Harvard Professor
At some point in the future, RoboBees may be able to perform the task of pollination.
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Automotive Grade Linux Hits the Road
Car vendors have an open source platform for building embedded applications and features in Automotive Grade Linux.
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The $8.5m Race to Protect Planes From Cosmic Rays
It's an invisible, but looming threat from outer space: distant cosmic events that can cause a computer, or even an aircraft, to crash here on Earth.
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UA-Developed Technology Helps Find Happy Middle Between Low Temps and High Bills
A monitor developed by researchers at the University of Arizona allows consumers to set the temperature in their homes based on how much they want to spend on electricity...
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