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Researchers se Social Bots To Expand Twitter Networks and Influence People
That next tweet you receive on Twitter may not be from a person but from a social bot, a tiny program designed to mimic real users and influence their behavior. ...
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Fast Phones, Dead Batteries
Days after buying his Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy Nexus smartphone from Verizon Wireless, David Jacobs found himself switching off the fourth-generation broadband...
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Symantec Warns of Android Trojans that Mutate with Every Download
Researchers from security vendor Symantec have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order...
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Oscars Vote Vulnerable to Cyber Attack Under New Online System, Experts Warn
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently announced that starting next year members will be able to vote for the Oscars using electronic ballots...
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Letting Hackers Compete, Facebook Eyes New Talent
Late this January, some 75,000 people around the planet sat in front of their computers and pondered how to make anagrams from a bowl of alphabet soup.
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Microsoft Researchers Say Anonymized Data Isn't So Anonymous
Data routinely gathered in Web logs, such as IP address, cookies, operating systems, browser type, and user-agent strings can threaten online privacy because they...
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Harnessing the Predictive Power of Virtual Communities
University of Ljubljana researchers say they have developed an algorithm that can detect virtual communities better than existing state-of-the-art algorithms.
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Embodiment, Computation and the Nature of Artificial Intelligence
Although many AI researchers have adopted the idea that true intelligence requires a body, known as embodiment, a growing group of researchers, led by the University...
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Industry-Funded Software Research Goes Open Source
Several large companies that fund software research on university campuses are engaged in open source research in the hope of drawing a thriving developer community...
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How Did That Ad Make You Feel? Ask A Computer
If you have ever called your bank, your phone company or even your own office and slammed head-on into a voicemail system that has made you want to scream, this...
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Four Telescope Link-Up Creates World's Largest Mirror
Astronomers have created the world's largest virtual optical telescope linking four telescopes in Chile, so that they operate as a single device.
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Quarter of Tweets Not Worth Reading, Twitter Users Tell Researchers
Researchers evaluating tweets found that Twitter users liked just 36 percent of the tweets they received and disliked 25 percent.
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How the View From a Comet Might Look
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is heading for a comet.
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Risk-Based Passenger Screening Could Make Air Travel Safer
University of Illinois researchers recently examined the benefit of matching passenger risk with security assets and found that intensive screening of all airline...
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Fast and Easy Programming
A European Union consortium known as ALMA is developing a tool chain based on open source software designed to simplify the development of software for embedded...
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Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have developed a system that aims to measure Web-driven scholarly interactions, such as how often research...
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H-1b Workers Are Better Paid, More Educated, Study Finds
The average annual earnings of H-1B workers are about 10 percent higher than the average annual earnings of U.S. workers, after adjustments for age, occupation...
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Why Viewers Could Soon Control Super Bowl Ads
During this Sunday's Super Bowl, a record five million viewers are expected to tweet or make other social media comments—not just about the game, but also about...
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Artificial Intelligence: Getting Better at the Age Guessing Game
A*STAR Institution for Infocomm Research scientists have developed and algorithm which they say can quickly scan through large databases of facial images. They...
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