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Speech-to-Speech Translations Stutter, But Researchers See Mellifluous Future
The practical need for accurate instant or simultaneous machine translations continues to grow as applications multiply.
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Using Patient Data For Personalized Cancer Treatments
Patient information databases eventually will help improve health outcomes and support development of new therapies.
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Revelations of N.s.a. Spying Cost .s. Tech Companies
Microsoft has lost customers, including the government of Brazil.
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Graphene Helps Copper Wires Keep Their Cool
When people in the chip industry talk about the thermal problems in computer processors, they get dramatic.
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How to Win $1 Billion on Ncaa Basketball: A Mathematician's Tips
Last Thursday, the underground classroom at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York was filled to capacity for a college professor's PowerPoint-aided lecture...
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Alan Turing Institute to Be Set Up to Research Big Data
The U.K. government will provide 42 million UK pounds ($70 million US) to fund a research center that will carry the name of computer pioneer Alan Turing.
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Nasa Designs a Robot For Mars
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration researchers have developed Valkyrie, a humanoid robot that will one day explore and study Mars.
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How a Laser Beam Could Quadruple the Speed of the Internet
A new kind of laser holds the potential to quadruple bandwidth on the fastest fiber-optic networks.
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Smartphone to Become Smarter With 'deep Learning' Innovation
Researchers are developing a deep-learning method to enable smartphones and other mobile devices to understand and identify objects in a camera's field of view. ...
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Data Mining Reveals How Conspiracy Theories Emerge on Facebook
Computational social scientists have studied the Facebook interactions of more than 1 million people to examine the spread of misinformation on the Internet.
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Spinoffs from Spyland
It takes more than a little tradecraft to spin off a startup from the National Security Agency.
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Facebook Introduces 'hack,' the Programming Language of the Future
Facebook engineers Bryan O'Sullivan, Julien Verlaguet, and Alok Menghrajani spent the last few years building a programming language unlike any other.
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Open Source Project Builds Mobile Networks Without Big Carriers
Range Networks is working on an open source project that aims to shift mobile network creation from proprietary hardware to inexpensive commodity hardware.
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Computer Simulations Developed By Mu Researchers Help Predict Blast Scenarios, Also Have Crossover Appeal in Animation
University of Missouri researchers have developed computer-based methods for simulating building explosions.
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Nanoscale Optical Switch Breaks Miniaturization Barrier
The development of an ultra-fast and ultra-small optical switch could lead to the proliferation of electronic devices that detect and control light.
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Data-Mining For Crystal 'gold' at Slac's X-Ray Laser
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory researchers are analyzing data using a tool that can produce high-quality images of important proteins using fewer samples. ...
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Building Bicep2: A Conversation with Jamie Bock
Caltech Professor of Physics Jamie Bock and his collaborators announced on March 17, 2014 that they have successfully measured a B-mode polarization signal in the...
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China's Moon Rover Awake but Immobile
China's Moon rover Yutu, or "Jade Rabbit," has stopped hopping. But its ears are still twitching—and communicating with Earth.
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With Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus, a Virtual Battleground May Finally Be Here
Virtual reality has never quite materialized for most consumers.
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