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The First Plastic Computer Processor
Silicon may underpin the computers that surround us, but the rigid inflexibility of the semiconductor means it cannot reach everywhere. The first computer processor...
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How Cruise Missiles Would Beat Gps Jammers in Libya
Now that jammers are cheap and potentially ubiquitous, how do Tomahawk missiles stay on course?
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The Psychology of Collaboration
IBM fellow Irene Greif, the director of collaborative user experience at IBM Research, says that some of the toughest collaboration problems have little to do with...
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A Search Engine for the Human Body
Microsoft researcher Antonio Criminisi has led the development of a search tool that indexes medical images of the human body and automatically finds organs and...
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Taking Control of Cars From Afar
Researchers who have spent the last two years studying the security of car computer systems have revealed that they can take control of vehicles wirelessly.
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Spotting Virtual Intruders
Handing sensitive data over to a cloud computing provider makes many companies skittish. But new software, called HomeAlone, could help them come to terms with...
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Physicists Build Single-Atom Memory For Quantum Information
A single atom of rubidium sits at the heart of an exotic new quantum memory device.
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Turning Augmented Reality Into an Open Standard
A research team at Georgia Tech hopes to make augmented reality on smart phones more useful by developing an open standard for it.
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A Tangled Web of Shortened Links
Link-shortening services may be slowing down parts of the Internet, according to the Foundation for Research and Technology and Microsoft Research. And it might...
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China's Homemade Supercomputer May Be the Most Efficient Ever
China plans to launch a new homegrown supercomputer, the Dawning 6000, this summer, and it "could rival even Blue Gene/Q systems for performance per watt supremacy...
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A World Wide Web that Talks
Some 10,000 people worldwide use a version of the Web like no other: it is operated by voice over the telephone. Called the "Spoken Web," it is the result of...
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Light-Emitting Rubber Could Sense Structural Damage
Researchers at Princeton University have built a new type of sensor that could help engineers quickly assess the health of a building or bridge. The sensor is...
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Hp's Open Innovation Strategy: Leveraging Academic Labs
Hewlett-Packard Labs launched the Innovation Research Program as part of its effort to embrace ideas and technologies that come from other sources, and to enable...
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Extracting Business Ideas From It Logs
Many companies' IT infrastructure is automatically gathering a comprehensive picture of their whole business, in the form of everything from Web server and phone...
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Making Bad Search Results History
Microsoft researchers are developing personalized search engines that can help users find Web sites by analyzing their past search queries.
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App Turns iPhone into a Smarter Camera
Developers use clever tricks to overcome the shortcomings of smart-phone cameras.
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The Fantastical Promise of Reversible Computing
University of South Florida researchers are studying computation that takes place in steps that are time reversible, known as reversible computing, as a way to...
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Giving Hackers a Printed Invitation
At the Shmoocon conference, researchers demonstrated how hackers are using printers to infiltrate corporate computer networks. Printers are "totally integrated...
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