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Searching For Disease Clues in Genetic Diversity
Over the last few years, scientists have discovered hundreds of genetic variants linked to disease. But the vast majority of that research has focused on people...
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What's Inside the Ipad's Chip?
Despite widespread speculation, nothing beyond what Steve Jobs announced last week is known about the A4 chip at the heart of the Apple iPad. Jobs described the...
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New Life For Magnetic Tape
Music lovers may have long forsaken them, but magnetic tapes still reign supreme when it comes to storing vast amounts of digital data. And new research from IBM...
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How Google Ranks Tweets
To deliver useful search returns from the so-called real-time Web--such as seconds-old Twitter "tweets" reporting traffic jams--Google has adapted its page-ranking...
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Bringing Color to E-Readers
One of the hot topics at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas is color e-readers, with several companies showcasing new products. While E-Ink has...
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Trading Shares in Milliseconds
Today's stock market has become a world of automated transactions executed at lightning speed. This high-frequency trading could make the financial system more...
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Less Clumsy Code For the Cloud
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are working on a project called BOOM, which is developing new programming techniques for cloud computing....
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Web Security Tool Copies Apps' Moves
Scientists at Microsoft research have unveiled Ripley, a new way to secure complex Web applications by effectively cloning the user's browser and running it remotely...
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Splitting p Search
Researchers at Yahoo!'s Labs in Barcelona, Spain, have developed a distributed search approach that spreads the search index and additional data out over a larger...
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Splitting p Search
Searching the Web could become faster for users and much more efficient for search companies if search engines were split up and distributed around the world, according...
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Software That Fixes Itself
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers led by professor Martin Rinard have developed ClearView, software capable of finding and fixing certain types...
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Eavesdropping on Smartphone Secrets
Security researchers at Cryptography Research say the smart card attack involving differential power analysis could be used to target smartphones. Cryptography...
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Faster Maintenance with Augmented Reality
In the not-too-distant future, it might be possible to slip on a pair of augmented-reality (AR) goggles instead of fumbling with a manual while trying to repair...
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Merging Video With Maps
Microsoft and researchers from the University of Konstanz in Germany are collaborating to create Videomap, navigation software that incorporates videos of driving...
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Adding Trust to Wikipedia, and Beyond
WikiTrust, developed by University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) researchers, helps users evaluate information published on Wikipedia by automatically assigning...
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A New Language For Phone Networks
University of Cambridge professor Jon Crowcroft is leading a research effort to change how cell phones send information by creating peer-to-peer mobile device networks...
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Finding the Right Piece of Sky
At the recent ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 conference, Microsoft Research's Visual Computing Group presented SkyFinder, a search system designed to analyze images of the sky...
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Supercomputer Visuals Without Graphics Chip
The obsolescence of graphics-processing clusters is being hastened by the rapidly accelerating data processing speed of supercomputers. Scientists at Argonne National...
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Warning Issued on Web Programming Interfaces
Application programming interfaces (APIs), software specifications that allow Web sites and services to interact with each other, have been a major factor in the...
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