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You Want My Personal Data? Reward Me For It
Life, as they say, imitates art. And the way things work commercially today across much of the Web recalls that chapter in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” where...
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Researchers Create Sounds of Animated Things Breaking
A delicate wine glass shatters on the floor. A rock is thrown through a window. A child smashes his piggy bank. Dramatic moments like these in an animated movie...
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Google May Know Your Desires Before You Do
Google attempts to return relevant search results in the blink of an eye. But in future it could go one better, delivering search results to its users even before...
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Roila, a New Spoken Language Designed For Robots
Eindhoven University of Technology researchers are developing the Robot Interaction Language (ROILA), a spoken language for robots that is meant to be easy for...
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Safety in Numbers
Mathematicians and computer scientists are working on equations and algorithms that exhibit potential as terrorism countermeasures. These include powerful algorithms...
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DARPA Issues Call For Computer Science Devotees
DARPA wants university-based researchers to come up with the next big computer science idea—for the military.
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Did a Speeding Car Just Jump Out of My Cellphone?
Smartphones are getting smarter. Now some new models even offer games or television broadcasts in three dimensions—and you don’t need special glasses to see the...
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Pitting Cloud Against Cloud
Tools that benchmark performance promise to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of competing cloud providers.
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This Is the City, 2.0
Augmented reality tours of real monuments, instant visualization of virtual objects on living cityscapes, and user-generated, digital story telling around famous...
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Human Trials Next For Darpa's Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm
Pentagon-backed scientists are getting ready to test thought-controlled prosthetic arms on human subjects, by rewiring their brains to fully integrate the artificial...
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Researchers nsheathe New Tool to Battle Botnets
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a method to use a botnet's own technology to defeat it.
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Geo-Tags Reveal Celeb Secrets
U.S. computer scientists have demonstrated that by using information from Internet images and videos it is possible to determine the addresses and locations of...
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Virtual Reality System Puts Researchers Inside Protein Structures
To understand a protein, it helps to get inside of it, and a University of Arkansas professor James F. Hinton has developed a virtual reality system that does...
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China's Green Dam May Be Ready to Collapse
China's Green Dam software-filtering project has been staying afloat without government funds for the past year, but the project may now be in danger of collapse...
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Robots as the Next Big Industry?
Although a lot of artificial intelligence (AI) research has moved away from robotics and into creating algorithms for business intelligence, finance, the Web, and...
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In a First, Full-Sized Robo-Copter Flies With No Human Help
In mid-June, a single-turbine helicopter took off from a test field in Mesa, Arizona, avoided obstacles in-flight, scoped out a landing site and landed safely....
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Google's Do-It-Yourself App Creation Software
Google is bringing Android software development to the masses. The company will offer a software tool, starting Monday, that is intended to make it easy for people...
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Shrewd Search Engines Know What You Want
For better or worse, search engines have become the gateway to the Web. They help users to find information, advertisers to sell products—they even help hackers...
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