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UTD Team Evaluating Facial Recognition Techniques
University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) researchers are working with the U.S. Department of Defense to find the most accurate and cost-effective way to recognize individuals...
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Student Creates Anti-Counterfeit Software
HCM City National University student Nguyen Kim Hoang Nhu has developed 1.1trieu.com, a program that can help people avoid accidentally purchasing counterfeit products...
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3-D Computer Simulations Help Shed Light on Supernovae Explosions
Scientists have found a novel way to make three-dimensional computer simulations of supernovae explosions that may help in understanding these explosions better...
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Self-Organizing Traffic Lights
Researchers at TU Dresden's Institute of Transport & Economics and ETH Zurich are working to ease traffic congestion by enabling traffic lights to organize their...
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Disembodied Performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab professor Tod Machover has spent more than a decade inventing the technology for a new opera premiering in September...
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Peripheral Developers Are Key Contributors to Open-Source Projects, Study Finds
An information systems researcher at the University of Arkansas has found that peripheral developers outside the core development team make significant contributions...
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Pi record Smashed As Team Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit
A researcher has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi—and a few digits either side of it.
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Computer Scientist Puts NSF Funding to Work for More Reliable Computing
University of California, San Diego professor Yuanyuan Zhou recently received several grants for research projects aimed at making computer systems more reliable...
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The Big Promise of Big Data: What You Need to Know Today
In the never-ending quest for a competitive advantage, organizations are turning to large repositories of corporate and external data to uncover trends, statistics...
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Database Helps Researchers Identify Drug Targets
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have developed a new computational method that will provide scientists with a better mechanistic understanding of...
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Darpa Wants You To Build An Anti-Secrecy App
Usually the Pentagon expends time and technological effort to protect information. But now the far-out researchers at Darpa are looking for a few good futurists...
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The Next Stage of Online Video Evolution
HTML5 is changing the look of Web video, but can it edge out Flash?
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3D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution
Businesses in the South Park district of San Francisco generally sell either Web technology or sandwiches and burritos. Bespoke Innovations plans to sell designer...
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Most Influential Tweeters of All
Northwestern University researchers have designed a website that tracks the top trending topics on Twitter in real time. The website—pulseofthetweeters.com—uses...
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Byu Research Predicts Path of Lost Hikers
Computer models developed at Brigham Young University could help search and rescue teams in their effort to find lost hikers. The predictive models start at the...
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Intel and Arm to Battle For the Hearts of Smartphones
Intel is aiming for a slice of the smartphone market with a new chip with built-in graphics.
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Apple Blinks in Apps Fight
In an uncharacteristic about-face, Apple Inc. loosened its control over software development for its iPhones and iPads as the company feels heat from a U.S. antitrust...
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Apple Answers Questions About App Rejections, Raises Others
Apple on Thursday published a set of rules about the types of content that aren't allowed in the iOS App Store, answering questions that have been bugging software...
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Researchers Give Robots the Capability For Deceptive Behavior
Researchers have published what is believed to be the first detailed examination of robot deception. They developed algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether...
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