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Advances in Computer Mobility, Connectivity, and Networks
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Advances in Computer Mobility, Connectivity, and Networks

Researchers are developing programs and platforms that will ensure systems work despite power outages and other issues associated with mobility and connectivity...

Researchers Create Software For Google Glass That Provides Captions For Hard-of-Hearing ­sers
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Researchers Create Software For Google Glass That Provides Captions For Hard-of-Hearing ­sers

Researchers have developed speech-to-text software for Google Glass to help people with hearing loss conduct conversations more easily. 

Carnegie Mellon's Mary Shaw Will Receive National Medal of Technology and Innovation
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Carnegie Mellon's Mary Shaw Will Receive National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Mary Shaw is one of eight winners of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. 

School Bets Video Game Scholarship Can Draw Talent
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School Bets Video Game Scholarship Can Draw Talent

As a teenager, holed up in his bedroom, illuminated by the glow of his laptop, Youngbin Chung became addicted to video games. Ten-hours-a-day addicted.

Technology Takes the Wheel
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Technology Takes the Wheel

Google's driverless car may still be a work in progress, but the potential for semiautonomous vehicles on American roads is no longer the stuff of science fiction...

How Scammers Trick Your Mind
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How Scammers Trick Your Mind

None of us likes being scammed, and David Modic is no different.

Cyber Spy High: Meet the Nsa's Hacker Recruiter
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Cyber Spy High: Meet the Nsa's Hacker Recruiter

The National Security Agency has a recruiting problem.

­sing Intelligence to ­nlock the Market For Electric Vehicles
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­sing Intelligence to ­nlock the Market For Electric Vehicles

A European Union-funded project recently provided electric vehicles with enhanced energy efficiency in Spain. 

Rosetta Comet Fires Its Jets
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Rosetta Comet Fires Its Jets

The four images that make up a new montage of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were taken on September 26, 2014 by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft...

The ­npatchable Malware That Infects ­sbs Is Now on the Loose
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The ­npatchable Malware That Infects ­sbs Is Now on the Loose

It's been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference...

Quantum Bits Get Their First Compression
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Quantum Bits Get Their First Compression

Without algorithms that compress data to encode information into fewer bits, hard drives would clog up and Internet traffic would slow to a snail's pace.

China May Be Monitoring Hong Kong Protesters' Off-the-Grid Chats
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China May Be Monitoring Hong Kong Protesters' Off-the-Grid Chats

An app called FireChat is making headlines for being the go-to medium for communication among pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.

Minority Languages: Cookies, Caches and Cows
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Minority Languages: Cookies, Caches and Cows

The nonprofit Mozilla foundation is seeking to give more users of its open source Web browser the option of a device that speaks their language. 

Waiting For the Smart Grid
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Waiting For the Smart Grid

The technology is here, but barriers remain.

Internet of Things Gets a Hand from Arm's New Operating System
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Internet of Things Gets a Hand from Arm's New Operating System

Desktops have Linux. Mobile devices have Android. The Internet of Things has...Mbed?

What It Will Take For Computers to Be Conscious
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What It Will Take For Computers to Be Conscious

Is a worm conscious? How about a bumblebee? Does a computer that can play chess "feel" anything?

Nasa Mission Points to Origin of 'ocean of Storms' on Earth's Moon
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Nasa Mission Points to Origin of 'ocean of Storms' on Earth's Moon

Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), mission scientists have solved a lunar mystery almost as old as the moon itself.

Obama's Brain Project Backs Neurotechnology
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Obama's Brain Project Backs Neurotechnology

The White House said that President Obama's BRAIN Initiative is generating interest from companies and philanthropies in a sign of what it calls a wider partnership...

Walter Isaacson on the Women of Eniac
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Walter Isaacson on the Women of Eniac

Ever since the days of Charles Babbage, who conceived of a giant mechanical calculator called the Analytical Engine in the 1830s, the engineering of computer hardware...

Robotic Explorers
From ACM TechNews

Robotic Explorers

Yonsei University researchers have developed a system to enable air- and ground-based robot vehicles to cooperate without GPS signals or sensor devices. 
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