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sf Gets Millions to Train New STEM Teachers
The Helios Education Foundation donated $3.16 million to the University of South Florida for the training of STEM teachers for middle schools.
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lster Scientists Develop Smartphone 'assistance Agent' For Older People
Researchers are developing Help-on-Demand, a smartphone application designed to help older people fully engage in an increasingly self-serve society.
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In China, Big Data Is Becoming Big Business
With 1.3 billion people, a quickly expanding urban economy, and rising rates of Internet and smartphone penetration, China generates an immense amount of data annually...
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This Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar as Easy as Angry Birds
The target computer is picked. The order to strike has been given. All it takes is a finger swipe and a few taps of the touchscreen, and the cyberattack is prepped...
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Galaxies Fed By Funnels of Fuel
Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years have revealed a likely scenario for how they feed: a cosmic version of swirly straws.
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Perfect Skin: More Touchy-Feely Robots
An EU-funded project has developed sensor technologies and management systems that give robots an artificial sense of touch.
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Cradle Turns Smartphone Into Handheld Biosensor
A new cradle and app uses a smartphone’s built-in camera and processing power as a biosensor to detect toxins, proteins, bacteria, viruses, and other molecules. ...
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Light-Beam 'twins' Take Data Farther
Researchers have developed a method involving paired light beams that can increase the data-carrying properties of fiber-optic cables.
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Computer Network Piecing Together a Jigsaw of Jewish Lore
Scientists are using an artificial intelligence program to help reconstruct document fragments collected over a millennium.
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How Computers Can Learn Better
Researchers say they have developed a reinforcement-learning algorithm that lets computer systems find solutions more efficiently than previous algorithms.
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Graphics Gurus Master Wispy Hair, Snowballs, Torn Paper
The computer graphics industry has an insatiable appetite for realism, and researchers next month will show how they plan to feed it with innovations in computerized...
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Xbox? More Like Xbody: Future Game Consoles Will Get nder Your Skin
Imagine playing through a level of the popular zombie shooter "Left 4 Dead" on a system that tracks your heart rate, eye movements, even how clammy your skin is...
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Flame One Year Later
It's been a year since the first reports of the Flame malware surfaced, and looking back at the 12 months since then, it seems more and more each day that the discovery...
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Rutgers Computer Scientists Receive Google Grant to Develop Personalized Data Search System
A Google grant will help two scientists develop a system for searching all one's personal data sources at the same time.
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Opening Doors to Foldable Electronics With Inkjet-Printed Graphene
Researchers have used a highly conductive, bendable graphene-based ink to inkjet-print graphene patterns that could be used as conductive electrodes.
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Google Preps Dart 1.0 to Challenge Javascript
Google is preparing to formally release Dart language version 1.0, as well as the 3.0 version of Google Web Toolkit.
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Inside Google's Secret Lab
Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely...
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Exascale Computing Needs More Funding, Say Federal Computer Scientists
The U.S. Department of Energy's supercomputer efforts need at least another $400 million annually to possibly build an exascale computer by 2020.
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