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Every Day We Write the Book
What would happen if Facebook made its data available for research?
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Google Earth Engine Debuts
In what promises to be one of the most impressive innovations to come out of the Cancun climate talks, the philanthropic arm of Google launched a new technology...
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Parc Readies Printed Electronics For Market
Early 2011 will see printed memory devices in toys and printed sensors in packages used to ship drugs.
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Thousands of Html5 Tests Planned By Web Consortium
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 topped Google Chrome and Firefox in the first round of HTML5 compatibility tests, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) said that...
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Computer-Generated Robots
Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation has developed a moving robot that is created automatically using a genetic software...
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Leveraging Linux For Supercomputing
The Beowulf project pioneered the use of off-the-shelf, commodity computers running open source operating systems for high-performance computing. Beowulf clusters...
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Google Wave May Become an Apache Project
Google Wave's developers have submitted the software to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), making it a candidate to become a Podling included in the Apache Incubator...
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War Machines: Recruiting Robots For Combat
War would be a lot safer, the Army says, if only more of it were fought by robots.
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Topic Models vs. Unstructured Data
With topic modeling, scientists can explore and understand huge collections of unlabeled information.
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The Eyes Have It
Eye-tracking control for mobile phones might lead to a new era of context-aware user interfaces.
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Organ Network ses Algorithm to Match Live Kidney Donors With Recipients
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed an algorithm that matches living kidney donors with compatible transplant recipients, and initiated a pilot...
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'nowhere to Hide': .s. Army Testing New 'smart' Weapons in Afghanistan
The XM-25 soon will see combat; precision rounds can be programmed to explode before impact.
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Windows at 25: A Tech King with Growing Competition
When the first Windows operating system was introduced by Microsoft, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, John Hughes was introducing touching teen stereotypes...
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When the Playroom Is the Computer
A block-shaped robot that seems to roll onto a computer screen is part of an educational-media system that gets kids out of their chairs.
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Social Networking Extends Mobile Battery Life
Researchers at the University of Zagreb, Crotia, are developing a new approach to social networking for mobile devices that is based on the context and preferences...
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Code Clues Point to Stuxnet Maker
Detailed analysis of the code in the Stuxnet worm has narrowed the list of suspects who could have created it.
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A Minority Report Interface For the Rest of S
Two programmers have developed Toscanini, a free gestural computer interface that provides a connection between a user's movements and digital instruments such...
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Part Moth, Part Machine: Cyborgs Are on the Move
Researchers are developing methods to produce complex behavior from robots by tapping into the nervous system of living organisms and using algorithms that already...
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Nsa: Our Development Methods Are in the Open Now
Despite its reputation for secrecy, the U.S. National Security Agency doesn't have a set of secret practices that make its applications and systems bulletproof...
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