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A Robot Takes Stock
The short figure creeping around the Carnegie Mellon University campus store in a hooded sweatshirt recently isn't some shoplifter, but a robot taking inventory...
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You Are Where You E-Mail: Global Migration Trends Discovered in Email Data
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Yahoo! Research recently completed a large migration database based on the global flow of millions...
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How Many Computers to Identify a Cat? 16,000
Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several...
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The Man Who Keeps Facebook Humming
Jay Parikh is happy to never get a call from Mark Zuckerberg. Why? It means he's doing his job well. As the vice president of infrastructure engineering at Facebook...
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Statistics nmask Phony Online Reviews
Searching for hotels in cities they've never visited, people often turn to customer-written reviews on websites such as TripAdvisor. But how do they know those...
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Infinite-Capacity Wireless Vortex Beams Carry 2.5 Terabits Per Second
American and Israeli researchers have used twisted, vortex beams to transmit data at 2.5 terabits per second. As far as we can discern, this is the fastest wireless...
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What, Exactly, Is a Supercomputer?
It's official: The United States is home to the world's fastest supercomputer. But what exactly are supercomputers and why should we care about them? I decidedLawrence...
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Next Cameras Come Into View
Scientists at Duke University have built an experimental camera that allows the user—after a photo is taken—to zoom in on portions of the image in extraordinary...
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Degrees of Separation
Researchers now have the capability to look at the small-world problem from both the traditional algorithmic approach and the new topological approach.
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HTML5 Leads a Web Revolution
Propelled by a proliferation of mobile devices and social networks, an enhanced family of Web specifications is bringing new power to developers and new capabilities...
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Lost and Found
Researchers discover computer pioneer Konrad Zuse's long-forgotten Z9, the world's first program-controlled binary relay calculator using floating-point arithmetic...
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Inside Google's Plan to Build a Catalog of Every Single Thing, Ever
The ugly truth is that computers don't know anything. They have no common sense.
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The Future of Medical Visualization
Medical visualization is the use of computers to create 3D images from medical imaging data sets. It's a relatively young field of science, relying heavily on advances...
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Apple's Stash of Credit Card Numbers Is Its Secret Weapon
That little iPhone in your pocket is perfectly positioned to become a clone of the credit cards in your wallet or purse.
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The AI Game That Knows You Better Than Anyone
Many computer science researchers are trying to create an AI system that offers video game players a more tailored experience.
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Zoran Popovi?: Recruiting Gamers to Fight Disease
Proteins are the workhorses of our cells: They turn food into energy and determine our health. Each one is a chain of molecules—sometimes thousands of links long—that...
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'Big Data' From Social Media, Elsewhere Online Redefines Trend-Watching
Trend analysis and forecasting is being rethought thanks to the explosion of data generated by social media and other services, with IBM estimating that about 2...
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New Commission Aims to Help Government Tap Into Big Data
The TechAmerica Foundation says 22 experts and academics will collaborate to form a Big Data Commission to provide guidance to the U.S. government and businesses...
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Astronomers Predict Titanic Collision: Milky Way vs. Andromeda
NASA astronomers say they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky...
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