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The Fight Against Biometric Spoofing
The European Union has provided additional funding for the Tabula Rasa Consortium, a research group developing countermeasures against spoofed biometric identifiers...
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Computer-Aided Image Analysis Aims to Offer 'Second Opinion' in Breast Tumor Diagnosis
University of Chicago researchers are developing computer-aided diagnosis and quantitative image analysis methods for mammograms, ultrasounds, and MRIs to identify...
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Will India Get to Mars? A Guide to the Dangers Ahead
With the successful launch just hours ago of its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India has passed the first test in its bid to orbit the Red Planet. Next up is a nail...
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Professor Clifford I. Nass, Expert on Human/computer Interactions, Dead at 55
Clifford I. Nass, a Stanford communication professor known for his research on the way people interact with technology, died Nov. 2 at Stanford Sierra Camp near...
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How to Program Unreliable Chips
As transistors get smaller, they also become less reliable.
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Who Has the Right to Know Where Your Phone Has Been?
You probably know, or should know, that your cellphone is tracking your location everywhere you go.
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Of Course Gas Stations Will se Facial Recognition Tech to Serve 'Relevant' Ads
Say you're at a gas station. Say you're buying some supplies—bottled water, coffee, maybe some M&Ms—before you head back to your car.
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A Gestural Interface For Smart Watches
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and UC Davis are developing Chirp, a computer chip that uses ultrasound waves to detect a wide range of gestures...
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Forget the Needle, Consider the Haystack: Uncovering Hidden Structures in Massive Data Collections
Princeton University computer scientists have developed a method to leverage big data using a mathematical method to determine the probability of a pattern repeating...
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The Status of Moore's Law: It's Complicated
As computer chips grow denser, it becomes increasingly difficult to measure the progression of Moore's Law. Exacerbating this situation is the mutability of the...
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Microsoft ses Kinect to Interpret Sign Language From Deaf People
Microsoft Research developers are using the Kinect technology to develop a system that can read sign language from deaf users and translate it into spoken text....
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Germany Looks at Keeping Its Internet, Email Traffic Inside Its Borders
An alliance of German phone and Internet companies wants to create a network of German email and Internet systems transmitted strictly within German borders. The...
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Genome Hacker ncovers Largest-Ever Family Tree
Using data pulled from online genealogy sites, a renowned 'genome hacker' has constructed what is likely the biggest family trees ever assembled.
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The Dark Corners of the Internet
The way information spreads through society has been the focus of intense study in recent years.
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Fifth Amendment Prohibits Compelled Decryption, New EFF Brief Argues
Encryption is one of the most important ways to safeguard data from prying eyes.
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U.s. Teams Up With Operator of Online Courses to Plan a Global Network
Coursera and the U.S. government recently launched a partnership to create learning hubs around the world where students can go to get Internet access to free courses...
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Future Internet Aims to Sever Links With Servers
The European Union is funding a new Internet architecture called Pursuit that is designed to eliminate the need to connect to servers and enable content to be shared...
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sing Computers, Scientists Simulate Movement of Largest-Known Dinosaur
British and Argentinian researchers have developed computer simulations that examine how and whether the Argentinosauraus, the largest known dinosaur, could have...
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Researcher Explores Student Online Collaboration
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University and Carnegie Mellon University are using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to study blended learning in which...
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