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Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software
Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs...
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Silicon Valley Turns Prisoners Into Programmers at San Quentin
A San Francisco-based programming boot camp has launched a program in which inmates at San Quentin State Prison will learn the basics of computer coding.
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Workers in Silicon Valley Weigh In on Obama's Immigration Order
Silicon Valley's constant stream of new apps and services depends on hundreds of thousands of foreign-born engineers to help create them.
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Nasa Issues 'remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa
Scientists have produced a new version of what is perhaps NASA's best view of Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa.
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Researchers Advance 'quantum Teleportation'
The world at the quantum level, at the scale of particles too small for the eye to see, is very strange.
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Sculptor Offers Another Clue in 24-Year-Old Mystery at C.i.a.
The artist who created the enigmatic Kryptos, a puzzle-in-a-sculpture that has driven code breakers to distraction since it was installed 24 years ago in a courtyard...
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Mathematical Time Law Governs Crowd Flow
Walking in crowds means predicting the future.
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Faculty Research Reveals Software Improving in Ability to Analyze, Score Writing
Software for evaluating human writing is improving and expanding in use.
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Software to Automatically Outline Bones in X-Rays
Researchers at the University of Manchester are developing software that can automatically pick out the shapes of bones in X-rays.
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Scientific Computing's Future: Can Any Coding Language Top a 1950s Behemoth?
Cutting-edge research still universally involves Fortran; a trio of challengers wants in.
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Self-Repairing Software Tackles Bugs
University of Utah researchers have developed a software suite that can detect and eliminate malware.
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Window Washing Skills Beyond a Robot's Reach
As a pair of window washers clung to a scaffold dangling outside the 68th floor of 1 World Trade Center on Wednesday, the captivating drama left some below wondering...
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Three Touchdowns For Rosetta's Lander
After achieving touchdown on a comet for the first time in history, scientists and engineers are busy analysing this new world and the nature of the landing.
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Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the niverse
As Google's core business continues to thrive, Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology—ingestible nanoparticles, balloons that beam down broadband—that...
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How Alibaba Is sing Bra Sizes to Predict Online Shopping Habits
Earlier this summer, a group of data crunchers looking at underwear sales at Alibaba came across a curious trend: women who bought larger bra sizes also tended ...
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'Flight Simulator' for Surgeons: Project Joins Computer Science With Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison investigators are developing a simulator to help medical students virtually practice surgical procedures.
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Google Boosts Turing Award Computing Prize to $1 Million
There's no Nobel prize for computer science, but after a grant from Google, the top award in the field now just as lucrative.
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Joint Effort Nabs Next Wave of S Supercomputers
Once locked in an arms race with each other for the fastest supercomputers, US national laboratories are now banding together to buy their next-generation machines...
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Human Thoughts sed to Switch on Genes
Could a futuristic society of humans with the power to control their own biological functions ever become reality?
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