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Say Hello, or 你好, to China’s Siri
You might not have heard of iFlyTek. The company is hardly a household name in its domestic market of China, either.
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How to Steal Data from Your Neighbor in the Cloud
Cloud computing teaches people not to worry about physical equipment for hosting data and running software.
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The States with the Riskiest Voting Technology
Next Tuesday's presidential election will likely be extremely close, magnifying the potential impact of vote-counting errors.
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Genome Hunters Go After Martian Dna
Two high-profile entrepreneurs say they want to put a DNA sequencing machine on the surface of Mars in a bid to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life.
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How to Share Personal Data While Keeping Secrets Safe
Cornell University researchers have developed a new mathematical technique that allows for the sharing of large data sets of personal data without compromising...
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Software Detects Motion That the Human Eye Can't See
MIT researchers have developed the Eulerian video magnification process, a set of software algorithms that can amplify certain aspects of a video and reveal what...
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Your Laptop Can Now Analyze Big Data
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed GraphChi, a framework for running large-scale computations on one personal computer.
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A Phone That Knows Where You're Going
Researchers have developed an algorithm that follows a person's mobility patterns and also analyzes the patterns of people in the user's social network. In a study...
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PageRank Algorithm Reveals Soccer Teams' Strategies
Many readers will have watched the final of the Euro 2012 soccer championships last Sunday in which Spain demolished a tired Italian team by 4 goals to nil. The...
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A Robot Takes Stock
The short figure creeping around the Carnegie Mellon University campus store in a hooded sweatshirt recently isn't some shoplifter, but a robot taking inventory...
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Statistics nmask Phony Online Reviews
Searching for hotels in cities they've never visited, people often turn to customer-written reviews on websites such as TripAdvisor. But how do they know those...
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A Computer Interface that Takes a Load Off Your Mind
Conversations between people include a lot more than just words. All sorts of visual and aural cues indicate each party's state of mind and make for a productive...
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A Stock Exchange For Your Personal Data
The creation of a marketplace for personal information would be a way for people to regain control of their data in the information age, says Hewlett-Packard Labs...
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Facebook's Telescope on Human Behavior
One way to describe Facebook is as the most extensive data set on human social behavior that ever was.
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How Seagate's Terabit-Per-Square-Inch Hard Drive Works
Magnetic hard disks will soon be able to store one terabit (a trillion bits) per square inch.
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Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past
Mining personal data to discover what people care about has become big business for companies such as Facebook and Google. Now a project from Microsoft Research...
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How a Web Link Can Take Control of Your Phone
A chilling demonstration to a small, packed room at the recent RSA security conference showed how clicking a single bad Web link while using a phone running Google's...
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Ultrafast Trades Trigger Black Swan Events Every Day, Say Econophysicists
On 6 May 2010, shares on U.S. financial markets suddenly dropped on average by around 10% but in over 300 stocks by more than 60%. Moments later the prices recovered...
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