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Mind-Control: 'i Drove a Car with My Thoughts'
Henrik Matzke is in the driving seat of a car, poised to make a very unusual manoeuvre.
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nicode pdate Adds Emoji For Spiders, Chili Pepper, 'live Long and Prosper,' and More
The Unicode consortium has updated its character-encoding standard to include an additional 250 emoji.
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A New Safety System For City and School Buses Will Avoid Accidents Around Bus Stops
A new safety system for city and school buses detects the presence of pedestrians in the area surrounding a bus stop and warns the driver of dangerous conditions...
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Can We See the Arrow of Time?
A new algorithm can determine whether a given snippet of video is playing backward or forward with 80-percent accuracy.
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Female Tech Staff 'in Decline' in the U.k.
A new report finds the gender gap in the U.K. information technology industry is getting worse.
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Lighting on the Wall: World's Most Spectacular Video Projections
Sydney has had a radical makeover this summer, with the famous Opera House dressed in snakeskin and the underpass dotted with flowers to mark the city's Vivid festival...
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Quantum Computers Still Aren’t Faster Than Regular Old Computers
Researchers recently found a quantum computer performed no faster than a classical computer when running optimization algorithms.
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Can Hp Build the Computer of the Future?
On June 11, Hewlett-Packard revealed plans to make a new kind of computer that it's playfully calling The Machine.
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Commercial Quantum Computer Still Awaits Ultimate Test
Quantum computers promise to revolutionise the digital world, but how do you tell if a computer really is harnessing the power quantum mechanics?
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Supreme Court Tosses 'abstract' Software Patent
The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out an Australian company's patent for business software in a decision that clarifies standards for awarding patents, but not...
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Mobile Apps Enable Professional Development
Continuing Education begins adapting to the smartphone.
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Breakthrough For Information Technology Using Heusler Materials
For the first time, researchers have directly observed the 100-percent spin polarization of a Heusler compound.
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Seeking Reality in the Future of Aeronautical Simulation
Computer simulation software is being used to help design future airliners that will cut fuel consumption, reduce polluting emissions, and fly more quietly.
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Facial Recognition Algorithms Improve
The accuracy of facial-recognition algorithms has improved over the past three years, according to a U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
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Why Businesses Should Use Caution With Html5-Based Mobile Apps
University of Syracuse researchers have found that vulnerabilities in HTML5 could enable malicious code execution in mobile apps.
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Computing Crime and Punishment
Scientists and historians have performed a computational analysis of historical court records in London.
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The Thought Experiment
I was about 15 minutes late for my first phone call with Jan Scheuermann.
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Losing the Key
In this age of rapid transformation, the house key has been surprisingly resistant to change.
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Software That Sees Employees, Not Outsiders, As the Real Threat
A growing number of companies are under pressure to protect sensitive data—and not just from hackers lurking outside the digital walls.
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