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Datasets by Microsoft Research now Available in the Cloud
The goal is to provide a simple platform to Microsoft researchers and collaborators to share datasets and related research technologies and tools.
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Speaking in Code: How to Program by Voice
Debilitating hand pain is always bad news, but Harold Pimentel's was especially unwelcome.
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It's Time for a Chemistry Lesson. Put on Your Virtual Reality Goggles.
There was a time when biochemists had a lot in common with sculptors.
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Ford Video Shows in Painful Detail a 'Phantom Traffic Jam'
A recent study by Vanderbilt University and Ford Motor researchers showed that adaptive cruise control systems can stop "phantom traffic jams" by incrementally...
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Big Data Analytics for Dummies
A big-data analytics platform developed under the EU-funded Trustworthy Model-Aware Analytics Data Platform project should automatically manage all major challenges...
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In Search of New Rules to Protect Other Worlds From Earth's Cooties
NASA has to start protecting planets better. The international treaty governing space—there is one—and the laws and regulations that follow it date back to the...
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Machine Taught Itself to Solve Rubik's Cube Without Human Help, C Irvine Researchers Say
A computer has taught itself to solve a Rubik's Cube puzzle without human aid, according to University of California, Irvine researchers.
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Security Gaps Identified in LTE Mobile Telephony Standard
Cyberattackers are abusing security weaknesses in the LTE mobile telephony standard that affect all devices using the network.
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Dawn's Latest Orbit Reveals Dramatic New Views of Occator Crater
NASA's Dawn spacecraft reached its lowest-ever and final orbit around dwarf planet Ceres on June 6 and has been returning thousands of stunning images and other...
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I Never Said That! High-Tech Deception of 'Deepfake' Videos
Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped?
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NIST Researchers Simulate Simple Logic for Nanofluidic Computing
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers have shown how computational logic operations could be performed in a liquid medium by simulating...
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Teaching Bipedal Robots to Step Across Discrete Terrain
Leveraging recent advances in optimal and nonlinear control systems, the University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated a bipedal...
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Quantum Open Source Fund Launched
The newly-launched Unitary Fund is offering grants of $2,000 to projects developing open source quantum software for near-term, hybrid quantum-classical programming...
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Big Data Mining for Better Contact Center Performance
A European Union-funded project is using big-data mining software to improve customer experiences at contact centers.
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Time Split to the Nanosecond Is Precisely What Wall Street Wants
Computer scientists at Stanford University and Google have created technology that can track time down to 100 billionths of a second. It could be just what Wall...
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Why Are Countries Creating Public Random Number Generators?
In Chile, politicians resent the Comptroller General, which audits government officials to prevent corruption.
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Students, Chicago Scientists Turn Wrigley Field Into Data Lab
Researchers and students worked together to turn the city’s Wrigley Field ballpark into a sensor node installation.
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