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What Is Being Learned From Moocs? New Report Takes Stock
A new report released this week lays out the current state of research into massive open online courses.
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Detecting Human Life With Remote Technology
Flinders University engineering students have developed new technology to detect human life that they believe is more efficient than published techniques.
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A Google For Handwriting
A new digital platform offers a database of digitized works from cultural heritage collections, including handwritten works rendered searchable.
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Future 'top Guns' Will Be Battle Managers Flying Bigger, Slower Aircraft
At the dawn of aerial combat 100 years ago, World War I flying aces frequently closed to within 15 meters before firing at enemy aircraft with their machine guns...
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In Memoriam: Paul Hudak, Computer Scientist and Saybrook College Master
Paul R. Hudak, professor of computer science and master of Saybrook College, died April 29 after a long battle with leukemia.
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Brace Yourself: Microsoft Wants to Guess How Old You Are
Like a distant relative who makes you feel bad at the annual holiday get together, Microsoft has created a website that analyzes a photo of a person's face and...
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Nasa's New Horizons Detects Surface Features, Possible Polar Cap on Pluto
For the first time, images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto—the primary target of the New...
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Holograms Could Bring Videogame-Like Navigation to Your Car
There are plenty of ways to get directions in the car, but most have one big shortcoming.
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Nih Reiterates Ban on Editing Human Embryo Dna
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reaffirmed its ban on research that involves gene editing of human embryos. In a statement released on 29 April,...
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Olga Troyanskaya Brings Order to Big Data of Human Biology
Researchers at the Simons Center for Data Analysis have established how genes work together within 144 different human tissues and cell types.
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Lawmakers Want a Few Good Hackers to Help Bring Congress Into the 21st Century
The Hack4Congress D.C. brought together technology enthusiasts and non-technology hobbyists to work on projects intended to make the U.S. Congress more efficient...
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Resilience, Not Abstinence, May Help Teens Battle Online Risk
Researchers found keeping teens safe on the Internet can be achieved by boosting their ability to cope with online risks, rather than trying to stop them from going...
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c Berkeley Team Builds 'smart' Grocery Cart With Recycled Smartphones
A smart grocery cart was the winning product concept in the inaugural Smartphone Encore Challenge.
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.s. Is Faulted For Risking Edge in R&d
A new report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is faulting the U.S. government for failing to maintain its investments in basic scientific research...
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Nasa Bids Farewell to Messenger, Its Mercury Orbiter
A bit over 3,900 days ago, NASA sent a probe on a meandering course through the inner Solar System.
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Microsoft Shows Hololens' Augmented Reality Is No Gimmick
Microsoft demonstrated how far its augmented-reality HoloLens wonderland project has come.
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IBM Brings Quantum Computing a Step Closer
Researchers at IBM have stitched together a prototype circuit that could become the basis of quantum computers a decade hence.
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One Way to Reduce Email Stress: Re-Invent the Mailing List
Researchers at MIT CSAIL have developed a prototype system called Murmur that they hope will improve the experience of using email mailing lists by incorporating...
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Is the niverse a Hologram?
At first glance, there is not the slightest doubt: to us, the universe looks three dimensional. But one of the most fruitful theories of theoretical physics in...
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