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Meet Seemore: Maker Faire's Mesmerizing 256-Node Computer Cluster
One of the centerpieces of the recent World Maker Faire in New York City was SeeMore, an animatronic sculpture designed to illustrate the concept of parallel computing...
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Thought Process: Building an Artificial Brain
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is funding a pair of parallel projects to understand the nature of intelligence.
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Court Reaffirms Ftc Authority to Prosecute Cybersecurity Breaches
The ruling underscores corporate responsibility to protect consumer data.
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A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot
Videos of Google-owned robots, some that look like mechanical bulls and others resembling humanoids from sci-fi movies, have been viewed more than 90 million times...
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CLA Scholar Examines Complexities of Data-Sharing in Four Research Projects
University of California, Los Angeles professor Christine Borgman and her team are studying how researchers handle and share information in a data-intensive setting...
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$2m Project to se Video Game to Engage Rural Maine Students in Computer Science, Math
University of Maine researchers will use the popular open-world video game Minecraft to introduce the basics of programming to rural fifth-to-eighth graders in...
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Moon-Landing Equivalent For Robotics: Assembling an Ikea Chair
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are developing a robot that will be able to assemble an IKEA chair.
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How a Single Car Could Spread Malware to Thousands More
Over the last summer, the security research community has proven like never before that cars are vulnerable to hackers—via cellular Internet connections, intercepted...
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Eurathlon 2015 Announces Grand Challenge Winners
The euRathlon consortium has announced the winners of its 2015 Grand Challenge after several days of competition in September in Piombino, Italy.
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The Jocks of Computer Code Do It For the Job Offers
At 21, Gennady Vladimirovich Korotkevich is already a legend. Tourist, as he's known online, is now the world's top sport programmer.
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Neural Implant Enables Paralyzed Als Patient to Type Six Words Per Minute
Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.
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Computer Algorithm Created to Encode Human Memories
Researchers at the University of Southern California and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have spent 10 years developing an implant to help a brain encode memories...
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A Light Touch: Embedded Optical Sensors Could Make Robotic Hands More Dexterous
Researchers have developed a three-fingered soft robotic hand with multiple embedded fiber-optic sensors, as well as a new type of stretchable optical sensor.
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That Big Security Fix For Credit Cards Won't Stop Fraud
Tomorrow is the deadline that Visa and MasterCard have set for banks and retailers across the U.S. to roll out a new system for more secure bank cards with microchips...
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Engineering Humans For War
Retired four-star general Paul F. Gorman recalls first learning about the "weakling of the battlefield" from reading S.L.A. Marshall, the U.S. Army combat historian...
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Researchers Study sers to Increase Cybersecurity
How unexpected human behavior on computers can make systems vulnerable is the focus of researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
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Physicists Find New Explanation For Key Experiment
Bielefeld University researchers have developed a new measurement method for "spin caloritronics."
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Diagnostic Apps For Adhd, Dementia?
IBM Israel won the top prize at the Brain Inspired Technology for Education Hackathon for an application that screens for attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder...
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Research Sheds New Light on Big Data Breaches
Researchers have found the number of large data breaches has decreased slightly since 2005.
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