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How Far Will the Supreme Court Go to Stop Patent Trolls?
What kinds of software—if any—deserve a patent?
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Stodgy, Old Baseball Invents the Future of Instant Replay
Major League Baseball is not inclined to tinker much with America's pastime, aside from the occasional tweak to the number of teams in the playoffs.
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Open Enigma Project Makes Encryption Machines Accessible
Enigma machines have captivated everyone from legendary code breaker Alan Turing and the dedicated cryptographers from England's Bletchley Park to historians and...
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Human Evolution: The Neanderthal in the Family
Before ancient DNA exposed the sexual proclivities of Neanderthals or the ancestry of the first Americans, there was the quagga.
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Dell's New Research Division Wants Computers to Detect Your Mood
Dell Research is conducting experiments to detect a person's mood, for use in computers involved with education and communications.
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Dolphin Whistle Instantly Translated By Computer
The Wild Dolphin Project is developing algorithms to analyze animal sounds to determine if information is transmitted, in an attempt to understand animal behavior...
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Penn Scientists Teach Computer Programs How to Teach Programming
University of Pennsylvania researchers are developing "automated program synthesis tools" that check whether human-supplied code operates correctly.
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Lens-Free Camera Sees Things Differently
In a new system, a curved camera lens is replaced with a tiny sensor that uses a spiral shape to map light and a computer determines the resulting image.
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Linux Foundation Finds That Collaboration Pays Off
In a Linux Foundation survey of 700 business managers and software developers, 91 percent said collaborative software development is important to their business...
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In New Case, Supreme Court Revisits the Question of Software Patents
If you write a book or a song, you can get copyright protection for it. If you invent a pill or a better mousetrap, you can patent it.
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The Electronic Holy War
In May, 1997, I.B.M.'s Deep Blue supercomputer prevailed over Garry Kasparov in a series of six chess games, becoming the first computer to defeat a world-champion...
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Comet Lander Checks In with Earth
The Philae lander, which Europe hopes to put on the surface of a comet later this year, has been re-activated after three years in deep-space hibernation.
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Search For Lost Jet Is Complicated By Geopolitics and Rivalries
The frantic hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been, in one way, a nearly miraculous display of international collaboration: 26 nations, many of them rivals...
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How the Nsa Would Get Phone Data nder Obama Administration's New Plan
One of the key points in the "fact sheet" that the White House published today about its plan to end the NSA's bulk collection of phone record data is that while...
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Apple Seeks Greater Emoji Racial Diversity
Apple says it wants to boost the ethnic diversity of the emoji used in text-messaging apps.
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Cross-Industry Iot Group Pushes For Gear That Works Together
Five information technology and equipment firms launched the Industrial Internet Consortium Thursday to guide standards for the Internet of Things.
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The Curious Nature of Sharing Cascades on Facebook
Although the bulk of content on Facebook is shared only a few times, some can be reshared millions of times.
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Japanese Language Inspires Student to Develop nique Computer Game
Koe is a role-playing game that teaches users the Japanese language within the context of entertaining game play.
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Carnegie Mellon Robot Invites Humans to Play Mean Game of Scrabble
Victor is a Scrabble-playing social robot designed to help scientists better understand what it takes to get people to enjoy interacting with a robot.
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