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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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Tweets Have Become Shorter Since 2009, Say Computer Scientists
Twitter users are communicating with fewer and shorter words, researchers have found.
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Nsa's Own Hardware Backdoors May Still Be a 'problem From Hell'
Computer hardware into which secret backdoors have been inserted by the U.S. National Security Agency and its adversaries is a tremendous security problem.
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Some Robots Are Starting to Move More Like Humans
Roboy is a four-foot-tall humanoid robot with a set of muscles inspired by the human musculoskeletal system.
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Some Robots Are Starting to Move More Like Humans
Robots usually look rigid and nonhuman, with joints engineered to avoid the elasticity that can make their movements less predictable and harder to control.
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Internet Archaeologists Reconstruct Lost Web Pages
Researchers recently embarked on an effort to reconstruct deleted social media posts and resources, in part from the clues they leave behind on the web.
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In Search of the Next Boom, Developers Cram Their Apps Into Smart Watches
The age of wearable computing is upon us.
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Encrypted Heartbeats Keep Hackers from Medical Implants
Rice University researchers have found a solution to the potential for hacking an implanted defibrillator.
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Academics Launch Fake Social Network to Get an Inside Look at Chinese Censorship
Harvard University professor Gary King this year launched a social media site to gain firsthand experience of online censorship in China.
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Cryptographers Have an Ethics Problem
Last week, I visited the MIT computer science department looking for a very famous cryptographer.
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New Approach to Making Graphene Could Lead to Workable Transistors
Researchers at Stanford have used DNA as a template to synthesize ultra-thin ribbons of graphene directly on silicon wafers. This new approach could ultimately...
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Mapping the Bitcoin Economy Could Reveal Users' Identities
An analysis of the public log of Bitcoin digital currency transactions could enable law enforcement to pinpoint user identities.
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Intel's Laser Chips Could Make Data Centers Run Better
Intel hopes to make computing far more efficient by introducing a technology that replaces conventional copper data cables with faster optical data links.
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A Camera That Sees Like the Human Eye
The retina is an enormously powerful tool. It sorts through massive amounts of data while operating on only a fraction of the power that a conventional digital...
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Hacked Feature Phone Can Block Other People's Calls
A few changes to a standard phone can block calls and text messages intended for nearby users of the same GSM cellular network.
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Seven Over 70
For over a decade, we've celebrated innovators under the age of 35. We choose to write about the young because we want to introduce you to the most promising new...
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35 Innovators Under 35
For our 13th annual celebration of people who are driving the next generation of technological breakthroughs, we're presenting the stories in a new way.
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Printed Graphene Transistors Promise a Flexible Electronic Future
Flexible electronic circuits could one day utilize graphene radio-frequency electronics with sufficient speed to generate, receive, and process telecommunication...
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How Footprint Recognition Software May Help Zoology
WildTrack has developed image-processing software that the detects physical characteristics of animal footprints that are hard for an untrained eye to recognize...
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