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Algorithm Developed to Predict Future Botnet Attacks
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University in Israel have developed an algorithm that can trace botnets back to their perpetrators.
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Spatial Technology Opens a Window Into History
The Strabo software developed at the University of Southern California reads scanned maps and automatically identifies historical locations.
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New Software Can Actually Edit Actors' Facial Expressions
FaceDirector software from Disney Research and the University of Surrey can blend images from multiple takes, making it possible to edit emotions on actors' faces...
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Cockroach-Like Robots May Be the Future of Disaster Help
The Compressible Robot with Articulated Mechanisms is a mini-robot that can mimic the cockroach's remarkable strength and agility.
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Mind-Reading Tech Helps Beginners Quickly Learn to Play Bach
Every potential virtuoso needs a mentor. It just so happens that this one is a computer.
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3D-Printed Display Lets Blind People Explore Images By Touch
Blind and partially sighted people often use tactile displays to interact with computers.
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Fbi Director Says Investigators nable to nlock San Bernardino Shooter's Phone Content
FBI Director James Comey said on Tuesday that federal investigators have still been unable to access the contents of a cellphone belonging to one of the killers...
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Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot
One night in late July 2014, a journalist from the Chinese newspaper Southern Weeklyinterviewed a 17-year-old Chinese girl named Xiaoice (pronounced Shao-ice).
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Study: Long-Term Global Warming Needs External Drivers
A study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, shows, in detail, the reason why...
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New Ways Into the Brain's 'music Room'
Whether to enliven a commute, relax in the evening or drown out the buzz of a neighbor's recreational drone, Americans listen to music nearly four hours a day.
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Developing Accessible Apps For Secure Mobile Banking
The University of Washington's Computer Science and Engineering Department is working to provide the developing world with some basic financial instruments.
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Scientist Creates AI Algorithm to Monitor Machinery Health
Researchers have developed an algorithm which they say greatly increases accuracy in diagnosing the health of complex mechanical systems.
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Pic-Scanning AI Estimates City Air Pollution From Mass of Photos
A research team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has designed an application to estimate air quality by analyzing a large number of photos of a...
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Project Embeds Computer Science Lessons in Math Instruction For K-5 Students
The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding an initiative to integrate computing with elementary school mathematics.
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A Decade of ACM Efforts Contribute To Computer Science For All Initiative
Obama’s Computer Science for All initiative "represents the culmination of more than a decade of effort initiated by the ACM."
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The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
There's a battle raging over whether academic research should be free, and it’s overflowing into the dark web.
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An Icky New Hero: Roach-Like Robots May Help in Disasters
When buildings collapse in future disasters, the hero helping rescue trapped people may be a robotic cockroach.
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Daily Dozen: 12 Questions For Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”
In the latest Daily Dozen, Gina Smith reconnects with Google vice president and original Internet pioneer Vint Cerf. Here’s what he had to say about Internet security...
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How the British and Americans Started Listening In
It was late on 8 February 1941 when four Americans arrived at Bletchley Park.
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