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Id Got You, Under the Skin: Automated Thermal Face Recognition Based on Minutiae Extraction
A thermal-imaging scan for instantaneous face recognition could be the next advance in biometrics.
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What Is Graphene? Here's What You Need to Know About a Material that Could Be the Next Silicon
Graphene, an emerging material that could change the way electronic components are made and help computing performance continue to grow, is everywhere in the research...
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How the .s. Forces Net Firms to Cooperate on Surveillance
By wielding a potent legal threat, the U.S. government is often able to force Internet companies to aid its surveillance demands.
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Curiosity Mars Rover Passes Kilometer of Driving
The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer (about 0.62 mile).
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New Model to Improve Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication for 'Intelligent Transportation'
A newly developed model improves the clarity of vehicle-to-vehicle transmissions needed to make intelligent transportation a reality.
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'virtual Lolita' Aims to Trap Chatroom Pedophiles
Negobot, a "virtual Lolita" robot, poses as a 14-year-old girl and tries to identify pedophiles in online chatrooms.
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Daydreaming Simulated By Computer Model
A new virtual model of the human brain daydreams like people do.
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TV White Space Pilot Targets Connectivity Gaps at U.S. University
West Virginia University recently announced plans to use vacant broadcast TV channels for wireless broadband services with its TV white space test network.
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Zombies Offer Fresh Insight Into Crowd Behaviour
A new computer game simulates a zombie invasion, in order to gather data on crowd behavior and the impact of stress on decision-making.
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The End of Digital Tyranny: Why the Future of Computing Is Analog
Our world is ruled by 1s and 0s.
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Writing Programs Using Ordinary Language
In a pair of recent papers, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have demonstrated that, for a few specific tasks, it's...
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Hugh Herr and the Liberating Age of Bionics
"It's extraordinary that we live in this day and age with all our wonderful modern technology, and still we have shoes that give us blisters," says Hugh Herr, with...
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Miracle Material Graphene Could Deliver Internet One Hundred Times Faster
Researchers have demonstrated incredibly short optical response rates using graphene, which could lead to much faster Internet speeds.
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Ntu Invention Transforms Plain Surfaces Into Low-Cost Touchscreens
Researchers have developed a low-cost system that could turn a whiteboard, glass window, or a wooden tabletop into a responsive, touch-sensitive surface.
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Make Way for State and Local Cyber-Ranges
The U.S. government has wanted a nationwide network of unclassified cyberexercise facilities for years, and now that idea is coming to state and local governments...
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Silicon Oxide Memories Transcend a Hurdle
Researchers have developed a one-kilobit rewritable silicon oxide device with diodes that eliminate data-corrupting crosstalk.
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Alert! Study Finds Internet Users Heed Browser Warnings
Security warnings displayed by Web browsers are much more effective at deterring risky Internet behavior than was previously believed, a recent study found.
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Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
Like dozens of other brick-and-mortar retailers,Nordstrom wanted to learn more about its customers—how many came through the doors, how many were repeat visitors—the...
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