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Researchers Use Twitter to Track the Flu in Real Time
Researchers have developed a computational model to project the spread of the seasonal flu in real time, using Twitter posts.
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Stanford Team Brings Quantum Computing Closer to Reality With New Materials
In an attempt to bring functional quantum computers closer to reality, researchers are developing materials that can trap a single isolated electron.
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Nanofridge Could Keep Quantum Computers Cool Enough to Calculate
Researchers have conceived of a nanoscale refrigerator to maintain temperatures cold enough to keep qubits functioning in a quantum computer.
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Cornell Cis and Adobe Collaboration Creates AI Photo Tool
Deep Photo Style Transfer software can transpose the look of one photo onto another.
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The Finesse of Flying Cassini Between Saturn's Rings
The Cassini space probe is going to dive through Saturn's rings again on Wednesday, the third of a planned 22 orbits threading that planetary needle as the probe...
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Laser-Controlled Touch Displays Near Reality
Researchers have discovered a phenomenon called the photodielectric effect, which they think could be applied to the development of laser-controlled touch displays...
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Nasa Challenges Coders to Speed p Its Supercomputer
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has issued a challenge to programmers to boost the performance of its Pleiades supercomputer.
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Inquisitive Bot Asks Questions to Test Your Understanding
Researchers say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that has learned to ask questions of its own.
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Computers That Can Smell
Eighteen teams participated in a competition to develop algorithms that can estimate how humans will perceive a particular odor from its molecular properties.
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning...
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Internet of Things Sensors Could Connect via Ambient Radio Waves
A new ultra-low-power system of sensors can transmit data to a central receiver by reflecting the ambient radio waves already in office environments.
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Device Allows sers to Manipulate 3D Virtual Objects More Quickly
CAPTIVE is an inexpensive controller for manipulating virtual objects in a computer program in three dimensions.
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ci Calteach and Ics Partner With Google to Train Computer Science Teachers
A new partnership aims to address the shortage of computer science teachers by developing a training program for pre-service math and science educators.
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Geniuses Wanted: Nasa Challenges Coders to Speed p Its Supercomputer
To improve the performance of one of the world's biggest supercomputers, NASA is crowdsourcing some new ideas about an old coding language. And there are cash prizes...
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Pocket Laboratories
As spring turns to summer along the east coast of the United States, thoughts turn to holidays, beaches, picnics—and mosquitoes.
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Nasa Rover Samples Active Linear Dune on Mars
As it drives uphill from a band of rippled sand dunes, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is toting a fistful of dark sand for onboard analysis that will complete the...
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Dartmouth-Led Team Develops Smartwatch With All The Moves
Cito is a prototype smartwatch face that moves in five directions.
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Does My Algorithm Work? There's No Shortcut For Community Detection
New research questions the validity of the community-detection algorithm testing model.
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Red Light, Green Light Invention Prevents Work Interruptions
FlowLight is a desk light that automatically switches from green to red when a user should not be disturbed by co-workers.
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