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Your Next Boss Could Be a Computer
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have developed AutoMan, an automated artificial intelligence-based system that can delegate tasks to human workers...
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IBM Chip Aims to se Light to Speed up Internet Services
IBM researchers have developed a chip that makes it easier to move data via pulses of light instead of using electrical signals. The chip could offer a way to...
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Data Services With In-Built Self-Defense
SINTEF researchers want data systems to adapt to virus and hacker attacks, and automatically replace compromised software components without inconveniencing the...
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In South Korea, the Republic of Samsung
So sprawling is Samsung’s modern-day empire that some South Koreans say it has become possible to live a Samsung-only life: You can use a Samsung credit card to...
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Is the Light Spectrum the Next Frontier for Wireless?
Computer devices could eventually use light to communicate, and Li-Fi, formally called visible light communications, could replace Wi-Fi, says the University of...
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Flexible Robots Make Their Own Decisions
University West researchers have developed an automation system in which machines and robots make their own decisions and adapt to external circumstances.
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Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple Ceo Speaks
Prior to his death on Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs made sure that the elevation of Tim Cook—his longtime head of operations and trusted deputy—to Apple chief executive...
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In Eye Control, a Promise to Let Your Tablet Go Hands-Free
Forget touch screens and voice recognition; what if you could control your computer just by looking at it?
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A Machine That Makes Cameras: The Aesthetics of the Lytro
Let's think about photography as people live it.
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Online Social Science: Can the Web Graduate from Digital Petri Dish to Virtual Laboratory?
In many ways the Internet is the ultimate virtual laboratory.
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Vint Cerf Urges Computer Science to Be Included in EBacc
Google vice president and ACM president Vint Cerf is backing the British Computer Society's recent call for computer science to be included in the English Baccalaureate...
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New '4-D' Transistor Is Preview of Future Computers
Researchers at Purdue and Harvard universities have developed a transistor that consists of three nanowires made out of indium-gallium-arsenide. The three nanowires...
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Planning His Legacy, Cisco Chief Maps an Expansion
John T. Chambers has readied his last great act as the leader of Cisco Systems, fearing major changes in the technology business that could doom his company.
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ARM R&D Chief: Intel Can’t Beat s Without A New Business Model
Although Intel is still the undisputed king of silicon, it's a surprising fact that the ARM processor design is in more 32-bit chips than Intel’s x86 design, thanks...
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Intel Tech Chief Rattner Peers Into the Future
What does the future of computing look like? Justin Rattner has a better inkling than most.
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Syria Outage Sheds Light on U.s. 'kill Switch' Concerns
Syria and as many as 60 other countries are at a severe risk of being disconnected from the Internet because of lack of redundancy in their telecommunications connections...
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The Rise of Voice Biometrics For Mobile Phones
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs researchers have developed Vaulted Voice Verification, an approach to voice identification that can be used for voice...
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House Approves Resolution to Keep Internet Control Out of Un Hands
The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously passed a resolution that calls on the U.S. government to oppose a United Nations effort to control the Internet...
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Nasa-Noaa Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night
Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night.
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