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New Game App Keeps Teens on Track Taking Their Asthma Medicine
Researchers at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago are testing a game-based asthma application designed for teenagers. Young people seem to be responding...
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Social Media Helps Aid Efforts After Typhoon Haiyan
Ten million people affected. Half a million displaced. Ten thousand feared dead.
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Ads Could Soon Know If You're an Introvert (on Twitter)
Trying to derive a person's wants and needs—conscious or otherwise—from online browsing and buying habits has become crucial to companies of all kinds.
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How Corporate America Fights Hackers
To defend themselves against hackers, some of America's largest corporations have adopted shadowy tactics usually reserved for government spies.
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Nest's Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation
Tony Fadell is the founder and chief executive of Nest, a company that is trying to bring a high-end technology experience to some of the most prosaic areas of...
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Does Your Professor Have a Wikipedia Entry? Congrats! It Means Nothing
Oxford University has released a study indicating that no significant correlation exists between a scientific academic professional having a Wikipedia entry and...
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Wireless Device Converts 'lost' Energy Into Electric Power
Duke University researchers have developed a power-harvesting device that wirelessly converts a microwave signal to direct current voltage capable of recharging...
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Intel Launches Internet of Things Push With Tech Industry Call to Arms
Intel has called on the tech industry to make Internet of Things (IoT) technology a viable option for mainstream users. Intel has outlined nine key areas in which...
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Five Fascinating Things Revealed By Twitter Data
When technology companies get floated on the stock market, it prompts all kinds of analytical soul searching.
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As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry
On Stanford University’s sprawling campus, where a long palm-lined drive leads to manicured quads, humanities professors produce highly regarded scholarship on...
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It's Complicated: Dawn Spurs Rewrite of Vesta's Story
Just when scientists thought they had a tidy theory for how the giant asteroid Vesta formed, a new paper from NASA's Dawn mission suggests the history is more complicated...
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Researchers Dare AI Experts to Crack New Gotcha Password Scheme
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed GOTCHA, Generating panOptic Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, a password system based on visual...
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New Bucks For Bugs Program Focuses on Open Source Software, Internet Infrastructure
The Microsoft- and Facebook-sponsored Internet Bug Bounty program pays as much as $2,500 for a new vulnerability detected in key open source platforms. The program...
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Are Racks-on-Chip the Future of Data Centers?
Increasing the scale and decreasing the cost and power of data centers requires greatly boosting the density of computing, storage, and networking within those...
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Vehicle-To-Vehicle Tech Hits Speed Bumps
Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technologies could provide significant safety benefits if widely deployed. However, several challenges could create problems for the U...
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Computer Science Team Wins Challenge to Improve Reading Process of Reviews
Virginia Tech researchers say they have developed a better method of summarizing text through the mining or retrieval of key data, which won a Yelp-sponsored contest...
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Nsf Grant to Help Point Way to 5g Wireless
Researchers are investigating millimeter-wave radio communication in the 60-GHz band, which could increase spectrum for wireless communication by several orders...
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Monkey Thoughts Move Virtual Arms—human-Machine Mind-Meld Next?
Rhesus monkeys in a lab are using their brains to move two arms of a virtual primate on a screen, moving researchers one step closer towards outfitting paralyzed...
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