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Winter Driving Trouble? There's an App for That
North Dakota State University researchers have developed Winter Survival Kit, a free iPhone and Android application that helps motorists prepare for winter driving...
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Facial Recognition: Beating Surveillance Cameras
Big Brother is watching you, though probably not in the ways most of us would imagine.
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What Fueled Twitter's Success?
Innovators anxious to see their software products go viral might want to take a close look at how Twitter—which is said to have more than 300 million users worldwide—accomplished...
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Intel's Newest Project: Helping Stephen Hawking Speak
Intel is looking for ways to help famed British physicist Stephen Hawking reverse the slowing of his speech, according to a senior executive with the American...
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At CES, Control Your Computer Screen With Your 'Gaze'
At last year's D9 conference, Sweden-based Tobii demonstrated cool eye-tracking technology that enables users to control a PC without hands.
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The Critics Rave... For Microsoft?
"Gorgeous," raves The Huffington Post. "Best-looking smartphone operating system in the industry," gushes Slate. "Far superior to most if not all the Android...
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.S. Report Sees Perils to America's Tech Future
A Department of Commerce report warns that certain aspects of the U.S. economy are losing their competitive edge. "Our ability to innovate as a nation will determine...
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Enterprise Will Spend $19 Billion on Apple Hardware in 2012
The "Bring Your Own Device" philosophy spreading through enterprise these days is proving a real boon to Apple.
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U.s. Defense Bill Approves Offensive Cyber Warfare
The recently approved U.S. defense budget sanctions the Department of Defense to engage in offensive cyberwarfare to protect U.S. interests and those of its allies...
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Ford ses Online Software Tool to Simulate Visual Impairments
Ford is working with Cambridge University's Engineering Design Center to simulate visual impairments to improve the driving experience in its automobiles.
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Wanted: Supercomputer Programmers
The U.S.'s supercomputing labs are having difficulty finding software developers who can program state-of-the-art machines, according to a recent Daily Beast article...
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Leaping Lizards and Dinosaurs Inspire Robot Design
University of California, Berkeley researchers are developing robots based on lizards, giving the robots tails to help them maintain balance. "Inspiration from...
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Trajectory Maneuver Slated for Jan. 11
An engine firing on Jan. 11 will be the biggest maneuver that NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft will perform on its flight between Earth and Mars.
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In M.t.a. App Contest, Many Buttons Worth Pushing
How do you create public-service software? Run a contest.
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Avoiding Innovation's Terrible Toll
The corporation isn't a sturdy species. In fact, only a tiny fraction reach the age of 40, according to study of more than six million firms by management professors...
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In Flop of H.p. Touchpad, an Object Lesson For the Tech Sector
The TouchPad tablet from Hewlett-Packard was one of the most closely watched new gadgets of 2011—and quickly turned out to be the year’s biggest flop.
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Can a Court Make You Give Up Your Password?
Can the government force you to give up your password in the course of an investigation against you? That’s the controversial debate that’s shaping up in U.S....
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Encrypting Pictures Using Chaotic Cellular Automata
Marina Jeaneth Machicao and colleagues at the University of San Paul in Brazil are using chaos to encrypt images. Their approach generates a pseudo-random signal...
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Microsoft Researcher: Passwords Aren't Dead But They Need Fixing
Password use needs an overhaul that is driven by understanding the damage that can be done when password security is compromised, and researchers need to quantify...
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