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Wireless Home Automation Systems Reveal More Than You Would Think About ser Behavior
Saarland University researchers have found modern smart home wireless automation systems can pose a security risk.
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Transistor Successor Set to Bring on 'the Machine' Age Soon
Researchers are working to develop memristors, a response to the diminishing return of the transistor technology used in today's computer chips.
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UNSW Robots Win World Football RoboCup
The University of New South Wales team won the grand final of the 2014 RoboCup Standard Platform League robot soccer tournament, held in Brazil.
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Art By Algorithm: Computer Evolves New Artworks
New software creates digital artworks using algorithms that mimic natural selection.
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The Need For Speed
Researchers are using high-performance computers to achieve new breakthroughs in science and engineering.
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Digging Through Big Data to Find Alien Life
Back in the 1970s, scientists at Ohio State University began searching for signs of intelligent alien life using a radio telescope the size of three football fields...
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Google's New Moonshot Project: The Human Body
Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious and difficult science project ever: a quest inside the human body.
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U.s. Government Chatbot Gets You to Tell All
Want access to the U.S. government's secrets? Talk to the robot.
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For Half, STEM Degrees Lead to Other Jobs
A recent U.S. Census Bureau report says only about 26 percent of those who graduate with a four-year degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM)...
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Built For Speed: Designing Exascale Computers
Researchers at Harvard University are focused on developing the hardware and software for exascale computers, while others are planning to apply exascale computing...
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rban Jungle a Tough Challenge For Google's Autonomous Cars
Google's Chris Urmson, who heads the company's self-driving car program, said the project is entering its most difficult phase so far: building vehicles with the...
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Cloud Provides Chip Design Education to Developing Countries
Semiconductor Research Corp. and Silicon Cloud International are deploying EDA hardware and software in a private cloud with the goal of educating and training...
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Turing's Oracle: The Computer That Goes Beyond Logic
An "oracle" computer proposed by celebrated mathematician Alan Turing in 1938 that goes beyond conventional human logic is the focus of a Missouri State University...
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No Guts, All Glory at Robot Soccer World Cup
Spectacular falls, miraculous goals, and footwork that would put the Premier League to shame—RoboCup 2014 has seen it all.
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Surface Impressions of Rosetta's Comet
Surface structures are becoming visible in new images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by the scientific imaging system OSIRIS onboard the European Space...
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How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon's Cloud
Hackers have long used malware to enslave armies of unwitting PCs, but security researchers Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar had a different thought: Why steal computing...
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No Man's Sky: A Vast Game Crafted By Algorithms
Sean Murray, one of the creators of the computer game No Man's Sky, can't guarantee that the virtual universe he is building is infinite, but he's certain that,...
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Multi-Bit Spin For Mram Storage May Rival Flash Memory
A group of researchers say they have developed a new multi-bit magnetic random access memory storage paradigm with the potential to rival flash memory.
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Computer Science Adds New Dimension to Study of Chemistry
Computer science is benefiting the study of chemistry by adding a layer to analyze chemical processes.
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