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More Search Could Be Crowdsourced
MIT and Microsoft researchers determined that search engines could use crowdsourcing to expand the range of answers they provide for users. Most search engines...
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Daniela Rus's Robotic Sand
History holds lessons, even for those designing futuristic robots.
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Picking the Brains of Strangers Improves Efforts to Make Sense of Online Information
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research recently presented their findings on distributed sensemaking at CHI 2012.
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Nasa Dawn Mission Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and kinship...
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FBI: We Need Wiretap-Ready Web Sites
The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require the firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build...
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Engineers Develop Textile Sensors That Monitor Cardiac Signs and Communicate With Smart Phones
University of Arkansas researchers have developed a wireless health-monitoring system that gathers patient information and communicates that data in real time to...
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The Open Source Problem Solvers Creating Government 2.0
Technologically adept citizens are increasingly using their skills to address problems in government, says Personal Democracy Media founder Andrew Rasiej.
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Researchers Demonstrate New Way to Control Nonvolatile Magnetic Memory Devices
The spin Hall effect is useful for memory applications because it can switch magnetic poles back and forth, according to researchers at Cornell University.
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Thomas Sterling: 'i Think We Will Never Reach Zettaflops'
As supercomputing makes its way through the petascale era, the future of the technology has never seemed so uncertain.
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Movie Magic to Leave Home For?
Someday, if the dreams of movie-technology designers come true, you'll flash your smartphone ticket, settle into your plush cinema seat and be greeted with a hyper...
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Bill Would Have Businesses Foot Cost Of Cyberwar
Business executives and national security leaders are of one mind over the need to improve the security of the computers that control the U.S. power grid, the financial...
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Algorithm Weighs Up Strategies For Bridge Management
Concordia University engineers have developed an algorithm designed to help public officials decide how to manage bridges.
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Implanted ser Interface Gives Patients New Options
Researchers at the universities of Potsdam and Toronto have demonstrated that it is possible to communicate with a small user interface device that is implanted...
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DARPA Wants Gamers to Design Medical Training Software
DARPA is seeking proposals for a game-based interactive system to train medical first responders.
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The Man Who Started the Hacker Wars
In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a...
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How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet
Legal and technology researchers estimate that it would take about a month for Internet users to read the privacy policies of all the Web sites they visit in a...
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Internet Group Says Quality Over Speed in Restoring Domain-Name Expansion
A system used by ICANN to allow companies and organizations to propose new generic top-level domain names remains shut down indefinitely, three weeks after the...
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Facebook's Open Source Data Center Project Gains Industry Support
Hewlett-Packard, Advanced Micro Devices, Fidelity, Quanta, Tencent, Salesforce.com, VMware, Canonical, and Supermicro have joined Facebook's Open Compute Project...
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Graphene-Based Terahertz Devices: The Wave of the Future
University of Notre Dame researchers have been able to manipulate terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves using atomically thin graphene layers, which they say sets...
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