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Crumbling Labs Could Clip Nasa's Wings
Years of neglect have left many NASA labs that might be used for breakthrough technology research in rough shape, says a report from the U.S. National Academies...
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New Probe Promises to Reveal Brain's Mysteries
New cures for neurological disease and a better understanding of how the brain works are among the dozens of potential applications awaiting a new neurological...
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Over $50 Billion Lost to Software Piracy: Report
Software piracy cost technology companies more than $50 billion around the world last year. For every $100 of legitimate software sales in 2009, another $75 worth...
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The Cybersecurity Boom
When cybersecurity firm Triumfant was founded in late 2002, it developed software meant to assist help desks in managing information technology problems. The company...
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Why Labs Love Gaming Hardware
Blasting zombies may seem to have little to do with serious research, but video game hardware is helping scientists in a variety of ways including helping them...
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Court Says Internet Filtering in Public Libraries Not Censorship
A Washington state supreme court issued a decision yesterday [May 6, 2010] supporting a public library's decision to fully filter Internet content, stating that...
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Robot-Inflicted Injuries Studied
German researchers have developed a prototype safety system that would reduce the injuries of humans working alongside robots using household tools.
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A 3-D Environment Model Enhances Collaboration During Learning
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid researchers have developed a model for three-dimensional virtual learning environments using an autonomous virtual tutor that...
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Data Analysis System Could Do Double Duty
A new system that analyzes behavioral data to identify potential Internet threats, which may also have application in areas such as health-care monitoring, is under...
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Ibm, Ntu Announce Collaborative Effort to Converge Hpc and Cloud Computing
IBM and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) announced a joint effort to research and develop a platform for the convergence of cloud computing and...
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Seeing the Forest For the Trees
New object recognition systems that deconstruct images into ever smaller elements, using methods developed at MIT and UCLA, should be much more efficient than previous...
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Is Water the Key to Cheaper Nanoelectronics?
Researchers have developed a way to use water to transfer layers from one surface to another by exploiting the fact that different materials have different hydrophilicity...
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Stimulus Funds Bring Supercomputer to Pittsburgh Area
D.E. Shaw Research will house Anton, its new 512-node supercomputer, at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center beginning next fall.
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Survey Finds Parents Need Help Encouraging Their Kids in Science
Having trouble encouraging your child to follow you into the sciences? You're not alone. A new survey finds that 53 percent of parents of school-aged children...
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Computer Pioneer Palevsky Was Wary of Google, Games, Pcs
Max Palevsky, the computer industry pioneer and early investor in Intel who died at age 85 last week, had, ironically, a fairly well-documented skepticism of...
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Computer Program Turns Complex Data Into Brilliant Images
University of Utah scientists Jens Krueger and Tom Fogal have developed ImageVis3D, a 3-D imaging program that converts complex data into colorful pictures that...
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Students Develop Software to Detect Hearing Problem
Computer science students from Dubai's University of Wollongong took fourth place at the Microsoft Gulf Imagine Cup for developing Ear It, software that turns a...
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Microsoft Researches Low Latency Operating System For Multicores
The Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge, England, has developed BarrelFish, an operating system designed to overcome the latency problem in multi-core computers...
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White House Offers $1 Million Innovation Prize
To encourage the commercialization of new technology, the U.S. Department of Commerce's i6 Challenge gives innovative thinkers the chance to win up to $1 million...
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