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Penn Researchers
University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed a method for creating phase change materials, which could lead to more efficient and faster memory storage...
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Computer Scientists Break Security Token Key in Record Time
A group of computer scientists dubbed Team Prosecco says it has found a way to extract a security key from a widely used RSA electronic token in 13 minutes.
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Design Reduces Nanowire Transistor Footprint
A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics researchers have integrated two transistors onto a single vertical silicon nanowire, which they say could further push the...
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Building an Army of Ones and Zeros and the Troops Who Know How to Wield Them
Intrinsic to the U.S. Pentagon's development of cyberarsenals is the challenge of staffing the Cyber Command.
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What If There Were No More Disasters?
Texas A&M University professor Robin Murphy recently released "Computing for Disasters: A Report from the Community Workshop," which details the role of computing...
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Voice Algorithms Spot Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's is a devastating disease for those living with the condition, and currently there is no cure. Diagnosis can also be slow, as there are no blood tests...
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It's Not an Entertainment Gadget, It's Google's Bid to Control the Future
Joe Britt hands me his latest creation, a black ball with glittering LED lights around the middle, and implores me to examine it.
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Blade Runner: Which Predictions Have Come True?
Based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner—the tale of a hunt for four dangerous "replicant" humans—is a classic...
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You Are Where You E-Mail: Global Migration Trends Discovered in Email Data
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Yahoo! Research recently completed a large migration database based on the global flow of millions...
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Graph500 Adds New Measurement of Supercomputing Performance
The Graph500 executive committee recently announced new specifications for a more representative way to rate large-scale data analytics in high-performance computing...
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Computer Science Tackles 30-Year-Old Economics Problem
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for finding an almost perfect approximation of the optimal design of a multi-item auction.
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Bot With Boyish Personality Wins Biggest Turing Test
The chatbot Eugene Goostman fooled Turing test judges 29 percent of the time into thinking it was human to take first place in the recent contest in the United...
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An Online Encyclopedia That Writes Itself
DARPA recently collaborated with Raytheon BBN researchers to develop a system that can follow global news events and provide intelligence analysts with useful summaries...
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You Will Want Google Goggles
At first glance, Thad Starner does not look out of place at Google. A pioneering researcher in the field of wearable computing, Starner is a big, charming man with...
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How Many Computers to Identify a Cat? 16,000
Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several...
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The Man Who Keeps Facebook Humming
Jay Parikh is happy to never get a call from Mark Zuckerberg. Why? It means he's doing his job well. As the vice president of infrastructure engineering at Facebook...
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The Lolo Jones Project, Combining Speed and Technology
Researchers at Louisiana State University and Red Bull are working on Project X, which involves using computer-vision technology and high-speed motion-capture cameras...
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.s. Wants Inventive Ways to Get Research Out of niversity Labs and Into the Real World
A recent hearing of the U.S. House of Representative's Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation focused on ways to enhance collaboration between commercial and...
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Forget Movie Critics, Mindless Internet Chatter Predicts Blockbusters and Bombs
Japanese physicists have developed a model that strongly reflects the box office performance of movies based on the number of times a film is mentioned in blog...
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