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Scientist-Developed Malware Covertly Jumps Air Gaps Using Inaudible Sound
Computer scientists have developed a malware prototype that uses inaudible audio signals to communicate, a capability that allows the malware to covertly transmit...
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Study: Black Women Falling Behind in STEM Fields
Women of color, especially black women, are significantly underrepresented in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics positions
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Wave Fingers, Make Faces: The Future of Computing at Intel
Intel's perceptual computing technology incorporates gestures, facial recognition, and voice recognition to make devices more "natural, intuitive, and immersive...
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Magnetic Tape to the Rescue
Magnetic tape is being revived as a viable storage medium for the vast volume of data generated, which doubles every two years at its current rate.
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Patients Drive New Wheelchair With Their Tongues
The new Tongue Drive System is a wearable system that enables paralyzed people to control wheelchairs with flicks of their pierced tongues.
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Robotutor Marks the Homework of a Class of Thousands
Codewebs, an artificially intelligent tutor for online students that can analyze and assess submitted code, can give students fast, tailored feedback and guidance...
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Nasa's Dawn Fills Out Its Ceres Dance Card
It's going to be a ball when NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres, and mission managers have now inked in the schedule on Dawn's dance...
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Google Puts Money on Robots, sing the Man Behind Android
In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner.
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Inside a Twitter Robot Factory
One day last month, Jim Vidmar bought 1,000 fake Twitter accounts for $58 from an online vendor in Pakistan.
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Mission Possible: Simulation-Based Training and Experimentation on Display
The Fleet Integrated Synthetic Training/Testing Facility software and gaming technology offers an affordable, adaptive way to train sailors for combat scenarios...
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Prestigious Reis Prize Awarded to 31-Year-Old Information Theorist
Researchers have developed a security system for wireless communications that would prevent a would-be eavesdropper from receiving transmitted information.
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What Can Happen When Graphene Meets a Semiconductor
Researchers say they have identified new characteristics of electron transport in a two-dimensional sheet of graphene layered on top of a semiconductor.
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Nasa Begins Exploring Quantum Computing
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration researchers have started running applications on a novel machine to explore quantum computing.
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Gates Foundation Big Data Grants Stress Open Data
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has allocated six $100,000 grants to projects aimed at "increasing interoperability of social good data."
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2014 Bower Award Goes To… Validation
Edmund Clarke will receive the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science.
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Imagine Your Face As Your Future Iphone Password
You may one day be able to unlock your iPhone based just on your good looks.
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Europa's Choppy Ocean Looks Friendly to Life
As moons go, Europa is doing pretty well in the looks department.
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Pilot se of Automation Eyed in Air Crashes
Pilots are becoming so reliant on the computer systems that do most of the flying in today's airliners that on the rare occasions when something goes wrong, they're...
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