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Moocs Evolve; Version 2.0 Aims to Retain More Students
Given that student retention rates typically hover at just around 4-5% of those participating in free Web classes, some online courses have evolved to a sort of...
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Here's Why the Feds Didn't Have More Skilled Programmers For Healthcare.gov
HealthCare.gov, the Web site at the center of President Obama's federal health insurance exchange, has been plagued with problems since it opened for business Oct...
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Killer Robots With Automatic Rifles Could Be on the Battlefield in 5 Years
Robots armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank missiles and even grenade launchers are marching, er, rolling ever closer to the battlefield now that they’ve shown...
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Credit Cards Under Pressure to Police Online Expression
Earlier this month, major credit card processors including MasterCard, Visa, and America Express announced they would stop processing payments to websites that...
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Huawei (yes, Huawei) Pushing For Global Security Standards
Remember that 1995 Alanis Morissette song, "Ironic?"
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Smarter Video Searching and Indexing
A new framework that would enable Internet users to search for videos using images rather than text could lead to smarter searching and indexing.
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World Record: Wireless Data Transmission at 100 Gbit/s
German researchers have developed a method for wireless data transmission at a world-record pace of 100 Gbps.
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Predicting the Future Could Improve Remote-Control of Space Robots
A new system could make robotic space exploration faster and more efficient by predicting the robot's future movements.
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New Technology Can Prevent Cellular Overload, Dropped Calls
A new method uses TV and radio channels to transmit cellular signals when cellular systems are pushed beyond capacity.
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Chinese Scientists Achieve Internet Access Through Light Bulbs
Researchers say they have developed a method for accessing the Internet using signals sent by light-bulbs (Li-Fi) instead of Wi-Fi.
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Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site
Federal contractors have identified most of the main problems crippling President Obama's online health insurance marketplace, but the administration has been slow...
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Big Data Heralds Return of the Cray Supercomputer
"Big data" means big computers, and good news for Cray Inc.
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Managing the Deluge of 'big Data' From Space
For NASA and its dozens of missions, data pour in every day like rushing rivers.
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Graphics Chips Help Process Big Data Sets in Milliseconds
New software can use the graphics processors found on everyday computers to process torrents of data more quickly than is normally possible, opening up new ways...
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The Rapid Advance of Artificial Intelligence
The latest work in the realm of artificial intelligence by scientists, roboticists, and others could potentially transform the world within the next five years. ...
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Ibm Seeks to Marry Biological and Artificial Computing
IBM is seeking insights about biological and artificial computing by building next-generation systems that meld concepts from both worlds.
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Dude, Where's My Code?
Stack is a new system that automatically combs through programmers' code, identifying those lines that compilers might discard, but that could be functional.
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Electric Cars: Hidden Habits You Are Sharing with Firms
You wouldn't think that anybody would care about your drive to the supermarket to buy milk.
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Taking the Internet nderwater
A deep-sea Internet framework could lead to better tsunami detection, offshore oil and natural gas exploration, surveillance, pollution monitoring, and other activities...
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