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Quantum Chip Connected to Internet Is Yours to Command
University of Bristol researchers have brought quantum computing to the cloud, enabling anyone with a Web browser to be able to log in and run basic algorithms...
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Internet Needs 'cyber Fire Department' to Protect Web Users, Claims Vint Cerf
The Internet needs a cyber fire department to keep risks found on websites and services from spreading, says Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM president...
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Older Brains Benefit From Video Game
University of California, San Francisco scientists found that people between the ages of 60 and 85 who played a videogame showed improved cognitive controls and...
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Scientists Expand Scale of Digital Snooping Alert
Researchers at Toshiba's European research laboratory in Cambridge, England, have released a paper describing a way to enable a group of users to exchange encryption...
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Middle School Experiments With Humanoid Robot
Bullitt Lick Middle School in Shepherdsville, Ky., is offering a new robotics class that will teach students programming skills.
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Learning from Relatives
University of Freiburg researchers have developed CopraRNA, software that predicts the functions of bacterial gene regulators. CopraRNA reduces complicated laboratory...
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New Remote-Sensing Development Could Aid Disaster Relief
Michigan Technological University researchers have developed BACKBOnE, a system that uses crowdsourcing to quickly and more accurately assess the damage from natural...
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Smartphones Provide Video Monitoring of Tb Patients
San Diego County health officials are using smartphones to improve treatment monitoring for tuberculosis patients, as part of a collaboration with the University...
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Mystery of the Missing Women in Science
Although test scores prove that girls have science and math aptitude equal to that of boys, many girls choose not to pursue these fields.
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Gaming Improves Multitasking Skills
Sixty-five-year-old Ann Linsey was starting to worry about how easily she got distracted from whatever she was doing.
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Robots: Is the Uncanny Valley Real?
Mick Walters opens a door in his lab and points his computer's camera towards the small, blurry, tan-coloured object he has just revealed. "This is Kaspar Two,"...
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Privacy App Pinpoints Your Exact Location Using Social Media
Many people are unaware that metadata accompanying social media posts can be used to "cybercase" their homes.
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Biodiversity App Logs Insects By Their Telltale Call
Cicada Hunt is a smartphone app designed to listen for the call of the endangered New Forest cicada; it also can be trained to detect other animals by their calls...
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Windows 8 Picture Passwords Easily Cracked
Security researchers have found taht Microsoft Windows 8's picture gesture authentication system is not difficult to crack.
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Mapping the Twitterverse
Researchers are studying how much public geospatial data is generated by Twitter users and how that information could be used by third parties.
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Skype Eye Contact Finally Possible
A new software prototype could make videoconferencing more realistic for home users, by creating the impression of eye contact.
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Beyond The Shadows: Apple's Ios 7 Is All About The Screen
At some point in the coming weeks, users of Apple iPhones and iPads will wake up to an alert that there is a new version of the company's mobile operating system...
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Tech Pioneer Vint Cerf on the Age of Context and Why You Can't Be a Citizen of the Internet
Few people have as much claim as Vint Cerf to the title "Father of the Internet," but as the technologies he helped develop in the 1970s and 1980s become increasingly...
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Your Phone Is Blabbing Your Location to Anyone Who Will Listen
Everywhere you go, your phone is sending out signals that can be assembled to form a picture of your movements.
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