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Web Could Be Stylized By New W3c Font Platform
The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Fonts Working Group has launched version 1.0 of the Web Open File Format (WOFF), compression technology that will provide a...
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Virtual Reality You Can Touch
Looking to develop new methods for virtual haptic interaction, ETH Zurich researchers have developed a way to produce virtual copies of real objects, which can...
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Google Offers Cloud-Based Learning Engine
Providing developers with machine learning on tap could unleash a flood of smarter apps.
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NSF Announces New Expeditions in Computing Awards
Three new $10 million awards continue the NSF's Expeditions program pursuing ambitious, fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing...
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Virtual Reality Used to Study Haiti, Baja Earthquakes
University of California, Davis researchers are using the virtual reality equipment to study earthquake damage and predict whether faults are likely to move again...
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Computer Model Advances Climate Change Research
Scientists can now study climate change in far more detail with powerful new computer software. The Community Earth System Model will be one of the primary climate...
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Atom Images Raise Quantum Computer Hopes
Fast quantum computers made of atoms trapped by beams of light could be a step closer, thanks to the first images of the individual atoms in such a grid.
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How Canadian 'science Fiction' Drives Subway Trains Abroad
Inside a north Toronto office building, rows of bulky computers operate virtual subway systems half a world away in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Dubai, managing...
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Safe Travels
University of Texas at San Antonio researchers have developed SMall Aircraft Risk Technology (SMART), software that can run thousands of simulations on a given...
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Multicore Processing: Breaking Through the Programming Wall
Significant challenges remain for applications to take advantage of the first petascale supercomputers, which feature distributed memory architectures and multicore...
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Tide Turns Against Million-Dollar Maths Proof
Initially hailed as a solution to the biggest question in computer science, the latest attempt to prove P ≠ NP—otherwise known as the "P vs NP" problem—seems to...
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Carnegie Mellon Tries Crowdsourcing to Develop Optimal Electric Car Formula
Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently announced an open contest to find the most efficient methods for managing power in electric cars, with the winner...
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Social Networking for Innovators
The European Union-funded Laboranova project is an initiative to create a social networking platform to facilitate collaboration between innovators. The goal is...
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Research Aims to Improve Speech Recognition Software
Research conducted by Binghamton University's Stephen Zahorian aims to improve the accuracy of today's automatic speech recognition technology.
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Nasa's Chief Technologist Seeks to Develop Transformative Programs
When Bobby Braun was a Ph.D. student in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford, he couldn't imagine holding the "dream job" he's doing now—NASA's chief technologist...
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Multi-Core With Virtualization, a Solution For Future Smart Phones
The Embedded Multi-Core Processing for Mobile Communications project has released an open source software platform designed to enable the efficient use of multi...
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Simplifying Computer Power Behind Phones, Medical Devices
University of Houston researchers are collaborating with chipmaker Texas Instruments to simplify the development of programmable multicore processors.
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.S. Military to Attack Moore's Law for Future Computers
Computers that can perform a quintillion calculations per second are being planned by the U.S. military.
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Future on Display: Technology You'll Want to Stroke
Whatever you might expect from the latest computer technology, fur is unlikely to be one of them.
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