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CS Enrollments Rise . . . at the Expense of the Humanities?
A growing proportion of U.S. college students are earning degrees in computer and information sciences, surprising some in academia.
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What's Next For Gpu Chips? Maybe the Network.
Over the last few years it's been interesting to see where in the computing landscape graphics processors or GPUs like those turned out by Nvidia have turned up...
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Meet The 'assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins
As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin.
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Graphene: The Quest For Supercarbon
Mr G gazes out from a recruitment poster hanging in an engineering building in Cambridge, U.K.
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Wikimedia Foundation Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Wikipr
On October 21, the Wikimedia Foundation issued a statement from Sue Gardner, our executive director, condemning the black hat practice of paid advocacy editing...
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The Good Judgment Project
A team of researchers tries to determine the best approach to predicting world events by making a game out of it.
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The Brain's Crowdsourcing Software
Neuroscientists are discovering how groups of cells in the human brain cooperate to produce certain results, in a manner similar to crowdsourcing software.
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Every Step You Take
As small cameras with the ability to identify individuals proliferate in public places and data storage prices drop, privacy issues are growing increasingly complex...
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Uc Research Brings a Future of Mind-Reading Robots Ever Closer
Researchers are studying how brain-computer interfaces can be applied to robotics.
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Google’s Vint Cerf Defines Internet of Things Challenges
Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM president Vint Cerf said strong regulations are needed to address privacy and other challenges the Internet of Things presents...
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Smartphone Accelerometers Can Accurately Distinguish Between Different Motorized Transportation Modalities
Smartphone accelerometers can be used to distinguish between different motorized transportation modalities.
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The Secret Ingredient in Computational Creativity
IBM computer scientists are using big data on the Watson supercomputer to produce cooking results that could be called creative.
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nmask Wikipedia Sock Puppets By the Way They Write
Researchers have developed a tool that could be used to uncover phony Wikipedia contributors.
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Obtaining Data From the 'brains' of Cars
Direct logging of data from cars provides access to invaluable data, as well as the ability to measure a vehicle's energy utilization.
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Biometrics Researchers See World Without Passwords
Emerging biometric technologies could replace the use of passwords.
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Nasa Probe May Help Solve Riddle of Mars's Missing Air
NASA's next mission to Mars aims to answer one question: What happened to the air that once made the surface habitable?
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A Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious
It's a question that’s perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from?
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Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...
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Quantum Memory 'world Record' Smashed
"Qubits" of information encoded in a silicon system persisted for almost 100 times longer than ever before.
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