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Google Voice Search Offers Natural User Input
Google Voice Search for desktop computers isn't much more than the company porting a technology that's been on mobile phones for a while to PCs. But don't write...
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A Preview of Future Disk Drives
A new type of data storage technology, called phase-change memory, has proven capable of writing some types of data faster than conventional flash based storage...
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How Robots Will Beat Humans at Billiards
Once a year, at the International Computer Olympiad, teams pit their AI software against others' in a variety of nerd-appropriate sports: chess, go, backgammon...
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Most Malware Tied to 'pay-Per-Install' Market
Researchers have found that most personal computers that get infected with malware were targeted by pay-per-install services, which charge hacking gangs up to $180...
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Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo Team Up to Advance Semantic Web
The move may finally encourage widespread use of technology that makes online information as comprehensible to computers as it is to humans. If the effort works...
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Tracking Down Twitter's Best Rumor Spreaders
Sometimes it's easy to know which messages will spread through Twitter like wildfire. Just ask Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York), who faces pressure to resign...
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Making the Case For Security
Major corporations have made serious mistakes with information security recently, resulting in spectacular failures to protect business and customer records....
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Tapping Quantum Effects For Software that Learns
In a bid to enable computers to learn faster, defense company Lockheed Martin has bought a system that uses quantum mechanics to process digital data.
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How Friends Influence Gadget Adoption
People are more likely to buy a product that their friends have already purchased, and the spread of adoption within social networks could help predict whether...
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What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters
Recent weeks have been exciting for a relatively new kind of currency speculator. In just three weeks, the total value of a unique new digital currency called...
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The Invisible iPhone
Hasso Plattner Institute researchers have developed a system that enables iPhone users to perform actions on their devices without actually holding the phone.
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Tracking How Mobile Apps Track You
Third-party apps are the weakest link in user privacy on smart phones. They often get access to large quantities of user data, and there are few rules covering...
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The Next Big Thing in Analytics: Tracking Your Cursor's Every Move
Media, search engines, advertisers and social networks have been tracking what you click since the birth of the Web, but this measurement yields an incomplete...
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A Business Analytics Engine that Began with the Military
Big technology companies like Netflix and Facebook make clever use of the digital traces we leave online: their algorithms can make connections between data and...
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Workplace Robots Need a Better View
Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks says a new generation of industrial robots could be enabled by better machine vision.
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How Three-Dimensional Transistors Went from Lab to Fab
Intel's new three-dimensional transistor design, announced last week, is the culmination of more than a decade of research and development work that began in...
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Unthinking Machines
An artificial intelligence panel discussion at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's recent Brains, Minds and Machines symposium called for a return to the...
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Data Analysis Is Creating New Business Opportunities
Sitting in the left-field upper deck to watch the San Francisco Giants play baseball on May 11 would cost you eight bucks if you'd bought the ticket in late April...
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Failure Cascading Through the Cloud
Two major cloud computing services, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and Sony's PlayStation Network, recently suffered extended outages. Though the circumstances...
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