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Standardizing Communications For the Internet of Things
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a framework that standardizes communications for the Internet of Things.
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Software Improves Ability to Catalog Bacterial Pathogens
Washington State University researchers have developed a software tool that can track, manage, analyze, and catalogue the short, repeating sequences of bacterial...
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This New Device Can Visualize Your Thoughts (sort Of)
The idea of a device that can materialize one's memories out of thin air seems like it could only exist in science fiction. But in a new study, researchers were...
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Drones Too Complicated? We'll Take Care of That
A new category of company is offering 'drones as a service' to customers who want to outsource the planning, compliance, and execution of commercial drone flights...
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The Advent of Virtual Humans
Justine Cassell has taken her virtual assistant Sara on a road trip.
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Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area
The brightest area on Ceres, located in the mysterious Occator Crater, has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth, according to...
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Researchers Sue the Government Over Computer Hacking Law
In the age of big data analytics, the proprietary algorithms web sites use to determine what data to display to visitors have the potential to illegally discriminate...
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Obama Administration Releases $150m in Grants For Techhire
The Obama administration has issued $150 million in grants for 39 technology-related partnerships in 25 states and Washington, D.C. Awardees will use this money...
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Beyond Video Games: AI System Beats Tactical Experts in Combat Simulation
The ALPHA artificial intelligence created by a University of Cincinnati doctoral graduate is a milestone in the use of genetic-fuzzy systems with specific implementation...
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How to Stop Robocalls … or at Least Fight Back
"This is a final notice from the IRS."
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Software For Fmri Yield Erroneous Results
Researchers at Linkoping University and the University of Warwick have shown that common statistical methods used to analyze brain activity through images taken...
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Trump's Secret Data Reversal
Donald Trump has dismissed political data operations as "overrated," but his campaign is now bolstering its online fundraising and digital outreach by turning to...
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Harmonized Security Across Devices
The EU-funded SECURity at the network EDge (SECURED) project is focused on the design of a solution to offload the execution of security applications into a programmable...
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New, Better Way to Build Circuits For World's First seful Quantum Computers
A team at Penn State performed a single quantum operation on individual atoms on separate stacked planes. Professor David S. Weiss says the technique highlights...
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Clever Attack ses the Sound of a Computer's Fan to Steal Data
In the past two years a group of researchers in Israel has become highly adept at stealing data from air-gapped computers—those machines prized by hackers that,...
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Nasa Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-Like Martian Past
Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now.
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Object and Scene Recognition Software Work Together to nderstand Video Content
A team from Disney Research and Shanghai's Fudan University has used deep-learning techniques to train computer software to recognize events in videos.
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As It Searches For Suspects, the Fbi May Be Looking at You
The FBI has access to nearly 412 million photos in its facial recognition system—perhaps including the one on your driver's license.
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Tour De France to se Thermal Imaging to Fight Mechanical Doping
They call it "mechanical doping," but the name simply doesn't do it justice.
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