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Air Force's Top Brain Wants a 'Social Radar' to 'See Into Hearts and Minds'
Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to build better satellites or make jets go insanely fast. Which makes Dr. Mark...
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A New Artificial Intelligence Technique to Speed the Planning of Tasks When Resources Are Limited
Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) researchers have developed an artificial intelligence technique that can automatically create plans and quickly solve problems...
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Quantum Computing Could Head to 'the Cloud,' Study Says
A novel high-speed, high-security computing technology will be compatible with the "cloud computing" approach popular on the Web, a study suggests.
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Engage: Apple's New Tools For Interactive Books on Ipad
Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It's one of the few psychological terms in education that...
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U.s. Losing High-Tech Jobs, R&d Dominance to Asia
U.S. companies are locating more of their research and development operations overseas, and Asian countries are rapidly increasing investments in their own science...
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Project Dreamcatcher
How cutting-edge text analytics can help the Obama campaign determine voters' hopes and fears.
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Isc Looking For Programmers to Help Complete Bind 10
The Internet Systems Consortium is looking for programmers to help develop the next generation of the open source Berkeley Internet Name Domain domain name server...
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Inside the Mind of a Video Game Champ
If there is one general rule about the limitations of the human mind, it is that we are terrible at multitasking.
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Nsa Releases a Security-Enhanced Version of Android
The U.S. National Security Agency has released a security-enhanced version of Android. SE Android enforces stricter access control policies than those available...
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Apple Makes Push Into Ipad Textbooks
Apple Inc. on Thursday introduced tools designed to spur the development of textbooks and other classroom materials for devices like the iPad, in the company's...
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Google's Marissa Mayer Says More Women Needed in Tech
Despite recent advances by women in high-tech fields, there is still much room for growth, according to a group of female tech executives speaking at the recent...
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Pnnl's Olympus Supercomputer Advances Science, Saves Energy
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory recently launched the 162-teraflop peak Olympus supercomputer, which is helping scientists do more complex, advanced research...
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Linux Adoption Grows on Big Data, Cloud, Virtualization: Survey
New and veteran users of Linux continue to embrace the platform at the expense of Windows and Unix, according to a recent report from the Linux Foundation.
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The Opposite of Evil: Google Named Best Place to Work in America
Google has a new weapon in the intense war for engineering talent in Silicon Valley: The search giant on Thursday was named by Fortune magazine as the best place...
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SOPA Protest Rattles Congress
Some of the early supporters of two controversial online piracy bills are having second thoughts—and other undecided lawmakers are pledging opposition—in the wake...
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Why The 'check Engine' Light Must Be Banned
It's pretty easy to dismiss the "check engine" light as just stupid, because, well, it is.
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Protest on Web Uses Shutdown to Take on Two Piracy Bills
A Web-wide protest against two pieces of U.S. Internet piracy legislation that includes a one-day shutdown of Wikipedia represents a political flashpoint for a...
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Surgical Robots to Provide Open-Source Platform For Medical Robotics Research
University of Washington researchers have developed Raven, a robot with wing-like arms that will be sent to seven campuses across the U.S. and form the basis of...
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.s. Loses High-Tech Jobs as R&d Shifts Toward Asia
The U.S. is losing high-tech jobs as American companies expand their research and development (R&D) labs in Asia, according to the U.S. National Science Board....
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