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Can Google Design a Car Touchscreen That Isn't a Dangerous Distraction?
Automakers are increasingly integrating touchscreens into vehicles—to the dismay of safe-driving advocates, who justifiably fear people are already too distracted...
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Carnegie Mellon Machine Learning Method Automatically Cuts Boring Parts From Long Consumer and Security Videos
Smartphones, GoPro cameras, and Google Glass are making it easy for anyone to shoot video anywhere.
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How a Little Open Source Project Came to Dominate Big Data
It began as a nagging technical problem that needed solving.
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The AP's Newest Business Reporter Is an Algorithm
Journalistic earnings stories can feel robotic, even when written by a news organization as prestigious as the Associated Press.
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Microrobots Are the "bee's Knees" For Harvard Professor
At some point in the future, RoboBees may be able to perform the task of pollination.
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The $8.5m Race to Protect Planes From Cosmic Rays
It's an invisible, but looming threat from outer space: distant cosmic events that can cause a computer, or even an aircraft, to crash here on Earth.
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U.c. San Diego Researchers Build Tool to Help Secure Iot
A new tool allows hardware designers and system builders to test the security of embedded devices.
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What Your Cell Phone Can't Tell the Police
On May 28th, Lisa Marie Roberts, of Portland, Oregon, was released from prison after serving nine and a half years for a murder she didn't commit.
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The Space-Based Quantum Cryptography Race
One of the great benefits of quantum communication is the ability to send messages from one point in space to another with perfect security.
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New N.s.a. Chief Calls Damage From Snowden Leaks Manageable
The newly installed director of the National Security Agency says that while he has seen some terrorist groups alter their communications to avoid surveillance...
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Rediscovered Plans Aid Edsac Reconstruction
The National Museum of Computing's reconstruction of an early British digital computer will benefit from the resurfacing of circuit diagrams of the machine.
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New York Subway Cell Coverage Stinks, But Here Are the Best Lines
The New York City subway system may run 24 hours a day and represent the most efficient means to get around the metropolis, but it has long been a sore spot for...
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Ray Kurzweil Says He's Breathing Intelligence Into Google Search
The big announcements at Google's I/O event in San Francisco Wednesday didn't mention Web search, the technology that got the company started and made it so successful...
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Make Robots seful By Teaching Them to Talk Like S
When Ashutosh Saxena wants some coffee or ice cream, he can ask a robot to make it for him.
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Darpa's Most Challenging Robot Contest Set For June 2015
Will robots ever be able to save the day in the aftermath of a tsunami or nuclear meltdown? The U.S. military has been trying to find out.
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The Quadriplegic Who Moved His Hand
Ian Burkhart was 19 and fearless and horsing around in the surf with friends on vacation in North Carolina’s Outer Banks when he mistimed a dive and a wave drove...
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E-Voting Experiments End in Norway Amid Security Fears
Norway is ending trials of e-voting systems used in national and local elections.
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How to Make Smart Watches Not Worth Stealing
A prototype device can identify someone by measuring the electrical resistance of tissues within the person's wrist.
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Riken's K Computer Tops 2014 Supercomputer Rankings
The K computer at Japan's RIKEN institute took the top spot in the 2014 Graph 500 supercomputer rankings.
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