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Obama's Big Plan to Protect Businesses from Cyberattack
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Obama's Big Plan to Protect Businesses from Cyberattack

It's been a long time coming, and some experts say it isn't enough.

Japan Sensor Will Let Diaper Say Baby Needs Changing
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Japan Sensor Will Let Diaper Say Baby Needs Changing

Diapers could enabled to notify parents when they need to change their baby, using a disposable organic sensor developed by University of Tokyo professors. 

Lampsonfest: Celebrating a Computing Legend
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Lampsonfest: Celebrating a Computing Legend

Yesterday, at Microsoft Research New England, colleagues were to gather to pay tribute to Butler Lampson, 1992 recipient of the ACM A.M Turing Award.

Everything We Know About How the Nsa Tracks People's Physical Location
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Everything We Know About How the Nsa Tracks People's Physical Location

Glenn Greenwald is back reporting about the NSA, now with Pierre Omidyar's news organization FirstLook and its introductory publication, The Intercept.

Medicine Gets ­p Close and Personal
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Medicine Gets ­p Close and Personal

Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle, Washington, likes to talk about what he calls P4 medicine: health care that is predictive...

Inside the Google Earth Satellite Factory
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Inside the Google Earth Satellite Factory

Behind a long rectangular window, in a high white room tended by ghostly figures in masks and hats, a new satellite is taking shape.

Herding Robots
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Herding Robots

Researchers say they have developed a system that combines existing robotic control programs to enable multiagent systems to collaborate in complex ways. 

Google Encourages Developers to Create Art ­sing Code
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Google Encourages Developers to Create Art ­sing Code

Google is helping to promote a global competition to find an up-and-coming software developer artist who pushes the boundaries of art using code. 

A Peek at Google's M&a Ambitions
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A Peek at Google's M&a Ambitions

Don Harrison became Google's head of mergers and acquisitions about a year ago.

Groups Step Up Efforts to Develop More Female It Workers
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Groups Step Up Efforts to Develop More Female It Workers

The National Center for Women in Technology has partnered with the Million Women Mentors to boost female participation in the technology industry. 

Sochi: Our Tweeted Emotions Decrypted in Real Time
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Sochi: Our Tweeted Emotions Decrypted in Real Time

Researchers will use social media to track the emotions of people viewing the Winter Olympics in Sochi. 

It's Erwin the Friendly Robot
From ACM TechNews

It's Erwin the Friendly Robot

A doctoral student will use a friendly robot to study how the human-robot relationship would be affected if robots have human-like thought biases. 

From ACM News

Herding Robots

Writing a program to control a single autonomous robot navigating an uncertain environment with an erratic communication link is hard enough; write one for multiple...

Baxter and the Second Machine Age
From ACM News

Baxter and the Second Machine Age

The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century is not just the story of steam power, but steam started it all.

Yahoo Expands Research Labs in Search of Personalized, Mobile Experiences
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Yahoo Expands Research Labs in Search of Personalized, Mobile Experiences

There are many conflicting opinions about what troubled Web giant Yahoo must do to turn itself around, but critics and company leaders at least agree on one thing...

The Growing Need to Recycle Electronics
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The Growing Need to Recycle Electronics

e-Cycling allows reclamation of valuable materials, and helps prevent pollution.

Target's Heating and Refrigeration Company Gave Hackers the Key to Customer Data
From ACM News

Target's Heating and Refrigeration Company Gave Hackers the Key to Customer Data

The massive Target data breach is a symbol of the need for tighter data security in big retail chains, but it's also still an evolving story in its own right.

Experiment Adds Sense of Touch to Artificial Hand
From ACM TechNews

Experiment Adds Sense of Touch to Artificial Hand

Swiss and Italian researchers have developed a robotic hand that enables amputees to feel differences between objects. 

Ballistic Transport in Graphene Suggests New Type of Electronic Device
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Ballistic Transport in Graphene Suggests New Type of Electronic Device

Researchers have found that electrical resistance in nanoribbons of epitaxial graphene changes in discrete steps following quantum mechanical principles. 

Researcher Takes a Muscular Approach to Robotics
From ACM TechNews

Researcher Takes a Muscular Approach to Robotics

A team at Harvard University has developed a robotic device to restore movement for sufferers of neuromuscular disorders that affect the foot and ankle. 
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