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Computer Simulations Yield Clues to How Cells Interact With Surroundings
Researchers say they have developed a virtual integrin snippet that responds to changes in energy and other stimuli just as integrins do in real life.
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Csiro Telepresence Robots Connect Students With National Museum
Australia's National Museum has launched a trial that enables schoolchildren to remotely navigate its galleries via robots that contain telepresence technology. ...
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Personal Monitor Systems May Change Healthcare
The mHealth infrastructure currently under development incorporates computer informatics, smartphones, and energy-efficient and miniaturized electronics and sensors...
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Fighting Cancer With the Google Pagerank Algorithm. Sort Of.
In cancer parlance, metastasize is a four-letter word.
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Web Money Gets Laundering Rule
The U.S. is applying money-laundering rules to "virtual currencies," amid growing concern that new forms of cash bought on the Internet are being used to fund illicit...
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Copyright Ruling Rings With Echo of Betamax
Before Napster and LimeWire, before Megauploads and the Pirate Bay, media companies' epic struggle against copying, piracy and generally losing control over their...
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Microsoft Gives ser Data to the .s. Government Less Often Than Google, But to Foreign Governments Far More
Microsoft has finally joined Google and a small group of Internet firms that voluntarily reveal how often governments demand they hand over their users’ private...
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Study Shows How Easy It Is to Determine Someone's Identity With Cellphone Data
Researchers have found that only four spatio-temporal points are needed to uniquely identify 95 percent of individual cellphone users.
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Luring Young Web Warriors Is a .S. Priority. It’s Also a Game.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano says her department is in dire need of computer hackers.
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AI Programmers Struggle to Make Games 'imitate Life'
Artificial intelligence in videogames should improve to incorporate more intelligent characters into games.
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Turing's 'universal Machine' Voted Top British Innovation
Alan Turing's Universal Machine has been voted the top British innovation of the past 100 years.
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The Cloud Within S
A new cloud architecture provides all necessary infrastructure, platform, and software services in the cloud through the cooperation of peers within the system. ...
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Employers Struggle to Fill Computer Security Jobs
Corporations and government agencies are scrambling to find new ways to attract people to jobs in information security, thanks to a growing gap between the demand...
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Ap Wins Big: Why a Court Said Clipping Content Is Not Fair se
A federal court has sided with the Associated Press and the New York Times in a closely watched case involving a company that scraped news content from the Internet...
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At 17, App Builder Rockets to Riches From Yahoo Deal
Seventeen-year-old Nick D'Aloisio is taking some time off from school in London, where he lives with his parents. He will let mom and dad help manage his money.
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Pentagon's Mad Scientists Want a Tattoo That Tracks Troops' Vitals
In its ongoing quest to measure every aspect of U.S. troops' physiology, the Pentagon's esoteric research enclave wants to develop a durable, unobtrusive device...
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Printable Robots Designed to Be Consumer-Friendly, Inexpensive
A new project to automate the design and manufacturing of consumer robots uses two-dimensional desktop technology fabrication methods.
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Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Metamaterials to Observe Giant Photonic Spin Hall Effect
A newly developed two-dimensional sheet of gold nanoantennas has recorded the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect.
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Robot-Delivered Speech and Physical Therapy a Success in Umass Amherst Test
A humanoid robot used to deliver speech and physical therapy to a stroke patient has resulted in noticeable improvement in quality of life.
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