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What Is a Jpeg? The Invisible Object You See Every Day
In 2012, the photograph of Barack and Michelle Obama embracing after his re-election was "liked" over 4 million times.
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New Computer Program Redefines Interview Preparation
My Automated Conversation Coach is a new interactive program designed to strengthen users' social skills, especially as they pertain to conversations.
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3D Mapping Is a 'pisa' Cake For Aussie Scientists
Zebedee is a new handheld three-dimensional mapping system that includes a laser scanner to capture millions of detailed measurements of a site.
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Military Lags in Push For Robotic Ground Vehicles
While private companies are moving forward with self-driving vehicles, the U.S. military has been slow to deploy the technology.
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In Search of the Next Boom, Developers Cram Their Apps Into Smart Watches
The age of wearable computing is upon us.
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Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online, It Might Cost You
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself," wrote Walt Whitman, America's great bard of self-promotion.
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Ready, Aim . . . Puff?
New 3D haptic technologies let users touch and feel virtual objects.
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Empty F-16 Jet Tested By Boeing and .s. Air Force
Boeing has revealed that it has retrofitted retired fighter jets to turn them into drones.
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How BlackBerry Finally Found Its Buyer
The BlackBerry melodrama may finally be coming to a close.
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Encrypted Heartbeats Keep Hackers from Medical Implants
Rice University researchers have found a solution to the potential for hacking an implanted defibrillator.
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Teardown Shows Iphone 5s Costs at Least $199 to Build, $173 For the 5c
New iPhones always gladden the hearts of the analysts at the research firm IHS, because it means it's time to tear the phones apart.
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Inspired By Ruby on Rails, Grails to Go Beyond Web App Dev
Open source web application framework Grails has been available since 2007, and has been used to deploy Netflix to the Amazon Web Services cloud.
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Utilities Try to Learn From Smart Meters
Utilities have installed more than 60 million smart meters in North America in the past decade.
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Nsa Efforts to Evade Encryption Technology Damaged .s. Cryptography Standard
In the three months since Edward Snowden began his whistle-blowing campaign against the National Security Agency (NSA) the former government contractor has exposed...
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Sweet! Tiny, Far-Flying Robot Based on Honeybee
Researchers are developing a flying robot based on the honeybee.
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A Computer Scientist's Approach to Medicine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientist Stephanie Seneff applies her natural language processing research to solving biological problems.
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Apple: The 64-Bit Question
There's been an interesting sideshow in tech land since Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S last week: Does having the first 64-bitmicroprocessor in a phone mean anything...
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