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One Step Closer to a Brain
A few months ago Google shared with us another challenge it had taken on. It wasn't as fanciful as a driverless car or as geekily sexy as augmented reality glasses...
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3 Questions: A Web For Everyone
During the opening ceremonies of this summer’s Olympic games in London, a musical performance culminated with a stage-set house rising into the rafters to reveal...
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Steven Sinofsky: Microsoft's Controversial Mr. Windows 8
Two years ago, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was working on a file synchronization technology that would make stashing and grabbing pictures, documents...
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Beyond Bieber: Twitter Improves Student Learning
MSU researchers have found that Twitter can be an effective tool to improve student learning.
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Internet Anti-Censorship Tools Are Being Overwhelmed By Demand
The overwhelming popularity of U.S.-backed programs to thwart online censorship is limiting access to the tools in repressive countries because demand is creating...
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'hackathon' Events Proliferate For Student Programmers
A proliferation in hackathon events for student coders is occurring as tech firms seek talent and students look for hands-on experience.
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Magic Finger Device Suggests New Day For Calling p Content
Researchers at Autodesk Research, the University of Alberta, and the University of Toronto have presented a new device called Magic Finger, which enables a user's...
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At Technology High School, Goal Isn't to Finish in 4 Years
Flakes of green paint are peeling from the third-floor windowsills.
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Zero-Day Attacks Are Meaner, More Rampant Than We Ever Thought
Computer attacks that target undisclosed vulnerabilities are more common and last longer than many security researchers previously thought. The finding comes from...
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A Complex Logic Circuit Made From Bacterial Genes
Washington University in St. Louis professor Tae Seok Moon hopes to develop biological circuits made from genes and regulatory proteins.
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Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center
If you're looking for the beating heart of the digital age—a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you...
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Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission...
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Devices Go Nose to Nose With Bomb-Sniffer Dogs
Denis Spitzer wants to beat dogs at their own game.
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Should High Schools Teach Big Data?
TechAmerica Foundation's Big Data Commission aims to prepare the United States for future high-tech jobs, especially those focused around data.
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Image Analysis May Allow Pathologists to Expedite Diagnoses
Pennsylvania State University researchers are using image recognition technology to develop an automated method of classifying histopathological images.
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Robots That Perceive the World Like Humans
UPV/EHU-University researchers are studying how to improve robot behavior by means of perception models that are closer to those of humans.
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Ftc Offers $50,000 to Robocall Killers
The Federal Trade Commission is offering a cash reward of $50,000 to whoever develops a solution to block robotic calling on both landlines and mobiles.
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Women Use Emoticons More Than Men in Text Messaging :-)
Rice University researchers have found that women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages.
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The Internet of Things Will Transform Our Everyday
VTT researchers have developed several ubiquitous computing technologies, such as situation awareness for portable devices, mixed and augmented reality, and interoperability...
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