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Mapping Could Help Stop Ebola's Spread
Researcher Lars Skog is one of several experts in geoinformatics that are developing mapping systems that can help arrest the spread of disease.
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Data Mining Reveals How Social Coding Succeeds (and Fails)
The process of developing software has undergone huge transformation in the last decade or so.
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Replay: New Wizardry Keeps Pinball Rolling in the Internet Age
At the recent Battle at Stonehedge pinball tournament here, Jessie Carduner cursed her ninth-place finish and vowed to get professional help.
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So You Want to Hack Apple Pay?
A decade ago, a group of Johns Hopkins University grad students tried to hack one of the first commercially popular Near Field Communication payment systems—the...
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Nasa to Send Sample-Return Mission to Earth-Bound Asteroid
NASA has long wanted to send a mission to Mars to grab some of its surface and sling it back to Earth.
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Where to Grab Space Debris
Objects in space tend to spin—and spin in a way that's totally different from the way they spin on earth.
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Kbase Harnesses Gene Data For Researchers
A computational platform developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's national research laboratories will make complex analysis of gene data more efficient.
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'smart Genes' Prove Elusive
Scientists looking for the genes underlying intelligence are in for a slog.
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Map of Body's Protein-Folding Machinery Wins a Major Medical Prize
It's speculation season once again for Nobel Prize watchers.
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Google Is Target of European Backlash on .s. Tech Dominance
A top German official called for Google to be broken up.
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Smartphones Pioneered For se in Parkinson's Disease Detection
Researchers are working to make it possible to use smartphones to collect information on how the symptoms of degenerative diseases change on an hourly basis.
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Google Glass Can Now Track Your Stress Level
Researchers say they have developed a new method for using Google Glass to track a user's stress level and provide instant fitness feedback.
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Researchers Advance Artificial Intelligence For Player Goal Prediction in Gaming
New artificial intelligence software that improves the technology's ability to predict player actions in video games could be a key to enhancing player experiences...
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No Easy Parking Spot For First-Ever Comet Landing
Landing on a comet will be even harder than we thought.
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The Amazon.com of Stolen Credit Cards Makes It All So Easy
On Sept. 1, the website Rescator.cc alerted customers to a big new batch of product about to hit its digital shelves. "Load your accounts and prepare for an avalanche...
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Our Cyborg Future
In June 2014, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Riley v. California, in which the justices unanimously ruled that police officers may not, without a...
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Social Networking Accord
A new computational model for reaching consensus in a broad spectrum of situations is based on analysis of communication patterns in social networks.
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Airlines Take the Bump Out of Turbulence
Just a few years ago, airlines got their weather reports by telex.
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The Man Who Will Build Google's Elusive Quantum Computer
John Martinis is one of the world's foremost experts on quantum computing, a growing field of science that aims to process information at super high speeds using...
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