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Linguists Identify 15,000-Year-Old 'ultraconserved Words'
You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes!
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Insect Eye-Inspired Camera Captures Wide Field of View with No Distortion, According to Study Co-Led By Cu-Boulder
An experimental digital camera can take exceptionally wide-angle photos without distorting the image by mimicking the bowl-shaped eyes of insects.
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Robots Able to Reach Through Clutter With Whole-Arm Tactile Sensing
A new robot control method works with robotic joints and tactile sensing, keeping a robot's arm flexible and giving it a sense of touch across its entire arm.
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Computer Scientists Suggest New Spin on Origins of Evolvability
Researchers have developed a simulated model of the way organisms evolve, which they say offers insights about evolvability over generations.
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Finding a Gecko in the Crowd
The SLOOP software system is designed to automate part of the process of matching images of animals in massive catalogs.
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Here's How Smartphones, Tablets, and Huge Databases Will pend Market Research
If you're tired of those annoying 8 p.m. phone calls asking questions about where you shop, or of carrying an Arbitron sensor to provide radio ratings, your omnipresent...
From ACM Opinion
Why Fbi and CIA Didn't Connect the Dots
The FBI and the CIA are being criticized for not keeping better track of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the months before the Boston Marathon bombings.
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pc Develops an Advanced Traffic Management System to Reduce Costs and Pollution
A new information system based on intelligent data processing is designed to improve the mobility management of people and vehicles.
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Bitcoin vs. Ben Bernanke
Could a virtual currency created by an anonymous Internet hacker someday replace the U.S. dollar?
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How Today's Sensors Could Make Tomorrow's Cars Safer
Driverless cars haven’t hit the roads yet, but computers are already helping to slow down or stop a car in situations when a crash is imminent.
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After an iPhone Is Snatched, a High-Speed Chase
The woman was talking on her iPhone, and never saw coming her induction into a large and growing subset of crime victims.
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How Facebook Designs the 'perfect Empty Vessel' For Your Mind
One day in March, I was sitting across from Facebook's design director, Kate Aronowitz, at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park when she told me, "It takes a lot of work...
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Kinect Plus Projector Makes Anything a Remote Control
WorldKit is a system under development that combines cameras, projectors, and computers to allow everyday surfaces to host controllers for electronic devices.
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It’s Not the Jetsons, But It May Be Coming Soon
Advances in technologies will transform what manufacturers can produce, the worker's role, and the products available to consumers.
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Emerging Protocol Can Help Manage the Internet of Things
The MQTT protocol for telemetry messaging could help address the significant challenge of enabling all types of smart devices to communicate with one another.
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New Research Could Let Vehicles, Robots Collaborate with Humans
Researchers are developing robotic systems that can negotiate with people to determine the best way to achieve their goals.
From ACM Opinion
Digital Tattoos, Mind-Reading Headphones: The Shape of Things to Come?
Forecasting future technology has never been easy. In the 1950s, scientists and technologists envisaged that by now the world would be free from disease, traversed...
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Intel's High-Performance, Low-Power Secret: The Haswell Soc
In the semiconductor world, integration is omnipresent, driven by Moore's Law. Integration reduces power and cost while increasing performance. The latest realization...
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New Chief at Intel Aims to Expand Chip Making
Brian M. Krzanich, who on Thursday was named Intel's next chief executive, knows he faces a hefty challenge when he takes over the world's biggest maker of semiconductors...
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