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A Digital Portrayal of James Joyce's 'portrait'
Computer scientists and literature scholars at University College Dublin in Ireland have teamed up to create a multimedia version of James Joyce's novel "A Portrait...
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Mit's Foundry Interface Is the Photoshop of 3D Printing
MIT CSAIL has developed Foundry, a new interface for MultiFab, a multi-material printer unveiled last year.
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Brain Activity Is Too Complicated For Humans to Decipher. Machines Can Decode It For S
Scientists are using artificial intelligence to analyze neuroscientific data, to gain insight into how the human brain functions.
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New Simulation Software Improves Helicopter Pilot Training
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich in Germany have developed simulation software to improve training for helicopter pilots via real-time computational...
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The Gender Gap in Computer Science Is Hurting .s. Businesses
Women's share of the computer science workforce continues to fall despite efforts to expand computing education for children and young adults, according to research...
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Why Connecting All the World's Robots Will Drive 2017's Top Technology Trends
Technological developments in 2016 offer guidance as to how 2017 will unfold.
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Election System Susceptible to Rigging Despite Red Flags
The U.S. election system is fraught with vulnerabilities, including antiquated electronic voting machines that can be hacked without leaving a paper trail.
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How Scientists se Slack
When geneticist Daniel MacArthur checks into his lab, the first thing he does is fire up Slack, a workplace messaging app.
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Multi-Core Processors For Mobility and Industry 4.0
Researchers have successfully demonstrated that multi-core technologies in principle could provide digital computation capacity for safety-critical applications...
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b Awarded $1.2 Million For Self-Driving Car Research
University at Buffalo researchers have received a $1.2-million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to create a research center for self-driving and connected...
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Can Alexa Help Solve a Murder? Police Think So—But Amazon Won't Give p Her Data.
When police responded to a home in Bentonville, Ark., one Sunday morning last November, they discovered Victor Collins's dead body in the backyard.
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Exploring Post-Quantum Cryptography
The New Hope post-quantum algorithm to protect encryptions against quantum computers won its developers Facebook’s 2016 Internet Defense Prize (and $100,000); Google...
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How Much Are You Worth to Facebook? A Free Tool Now Provides the Answer
Researchers at Spain's University of Madrid have developed a tool that can identify a Facebook user's economic value on the advertising market in real time.
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Nist Asks Public to Help Future-Proof Electronic Information
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking the world's cryptographers to help stave off the potential decryption of digital information by...
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A Matter of Life or Death
More than 2.5 million people from more than 160 countries have shared their opinions about which algorithmic decisions are most ethical for a self-driving vehicle...
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Astronauts to Get Help From Snake Robots
Snake robots that can assist astronauts are being investigated by researchers at Norwegian independent research organization SINTEF as part of a project with the...
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Walking the Line: Wpi Students Develop App as Sobriety Test
A smartphone application in development at Massachusetts' Worcester Polytechnic Institute tells users when they have had too much alcohol by monitoring changes...
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se It or Lose It: The Search For Enlightenment in Dark Data
The growth of structured and unstructured data is proceeding exponentially, yet a recent IBM study estimated more than 80% of all data is "dark," or unmanaged and...
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New Rules For Avoiding Cyber Bugs in Medical Devices
The U.S. government on Tuesday issued rules for addressing cyber vulnerabilities in medical devices, providing manufacturers with guidelines for fixing security...
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