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The Perfect Software Tester?
As Aspiritech and other companies are discovering, autistic individuals possess certain unique skills that make them ideal as software testers.
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Logging In With a Touch or a Phrase (anything but a Password)
Passwords are a pain to remember. What if a quick wiggle of five fingers on a screen could log you in instead? Or speaking a simple phrase?
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Bouncing Data Would Speed Up Data Centers
Inside the huge data centers operated by Internet companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, information is processed at blistering speed, but it still has to...
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Mystery Men Forge Servers For Giants of Internet
If you drive down highway 880 from Oakland, Calif., take an exit about 30 miles south, and snake past a long line of car dealerships, you’ll find an ordinary...
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Google Awards $1.5 Million to Code For America
Code for America plans to expand its fellowship program and offer two new pilot programs--the Civic Startup Seed Accelerator and the CIA Brigade--using a $1.5 million...
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Spying on Your Buying
Monograms don't usually make me cry. But there in my room at the Peninsula Beverly Hills, embroidered in cursive on the king-size pillowcase, were two beautiful...
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Stanford Scientists' Computer Models Help Predict Tsunami Risk
Stanford University researchers are using computational models to predict tsunami risk.
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Why We Don't Have Domestic Robots Yet
On The Jetsons, Rosie was the robot maid with a heart of silicon and the voice of an aging cocktail waitress. She did everything: cook, clean, take care of the...
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IBM Predicts Home Electricity From Your Bike, Mind-Reading Computers
There's something about the year-end reflective state of mind that causes tech companies and institutions (and pundits) to make predictions about what they think...
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Quantum Computing with Holograms
Light is one of the most promising carriers of quantum information. It is robust against decoherence because it does not interact with stray electric and magnetic...
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Touchless Smartphones and Tvs Could Be on Sale in 2012
So you've lost your TV remote control. Again.
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Pick Up the Phone, Nfl: The Future Is Calling
On the sidelines during every game, New York Jets cornerback Donald Strickland performs a trick familiar to any toddler who has ever held a flip book.
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Prof Promises Supercomputer on Every Desktop
When Wu Feng looks at an iPad, he sees something more than a great way to play Fruit Ninja.
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Need a New Material? New Tool Can Help
Thanks to a new online toolkit developed at MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who needs to find a material with specific properties—whether...
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Google 'majel' May Answer Apple Siri
Apple's Siri voice assistant software has spurred Google to tack natural language processing onto its Voice Actions voice command application, a project code-named...
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Driverless Car: Google Awarded .s. Patent For Technology
The intellectual rights relate to a method to switch a vehicle from a human-controlled mode into the state where it takes charge of the wheel.
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Rare, Last Look Inside Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space shuttle Atlantis, which only five months ago flew the final mission of NASA's 30-year shuttle program, is now being prepared for its public display at the...
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Making Science Leap From the Page
When a college textbook, "Principles of Biology," comes out from the Nature Publishing Group in January, one place it won't be is on the shelves of school bookstores...
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Augmented Monoliths: Stonehenge Goes Digital
Ever wanted to stand at the centre of Stonehenge at summer solstice and appreciate the site’s beauty without the accompaniment of tourists or druids?
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