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How Pixar Made Monsters niversity, Its Latest Technological Marvel
Monsters University, the new animated film from Disney's Pixar division that debuts on June 21, will serve as light summer entertainment for most audiences. But...
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Herschel Completes Its 'cool' Journey in Space
The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out...
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Speed of Light May Not Be Constant, Physicists Say
The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say. But some scientists are exploring the possibility that this cosmic speed limit changes, a consequence of the...
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The Great Surveillance Boom
Video surveillance is big business. Expect it to get bigger. After law enforcement used closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras to help identify last week's Boston...
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Software Engineers Win Bronze in Best Job Battle
The 2013 edition of CareerCast's Jobs Rated report ranks software engineer as the third best job in the world.
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Nasa ses Smartphones as Satellites
NASA is using smartphones as microprocessors for satellites.
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Samsung Demos a Tablet Controlled By Your Brain
One day, we may be able to check email or call a friend without ever touching a screen or even speaking to a disembodied helper.
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After Boston: The Pros and Cons of Surveillance Cameras
Even after the identification of the Boston bombing suspects through grainy security-camera images, officials say that blanketing a city in surveillance cameras...
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Deep Learning
When Ray Kurzweil met with Google CEO Larry Page last July, he wasn't looking for a job.
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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper Versus Screens
In a viral YouTube video from October 2011 a one-year-old girl sweeps her fingers across an iPad's touchscreen, shuffling groups of icons.
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World's First Smartphone For the Blind, Made in India
A National Institute of Design post-graduate student has led the development of a smartphone for the visually impaired.
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From Hackers to Security Experts, the Balkan It Sector Is Booming
After hacking the Pentagon, NASA and Britain's Royal Navy for fun, TinKode got a real job as a computer security expert for a Romanian cyber safety consultancy.
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How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the ltimate AI Brain
Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field...
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Bioengineers Build Open Source Language For Programming Cells
Drew Endy wants to build a programming language for the body.
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A Simple Way to Turn Any Lcd Into a Touch Screen
Electromagnetic interference can screw up cell phone and radio reception. But it may also be the key to cheaply transforming regular LCD screens into touch- and...
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With Wave of the Hand, Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create Touch-Based Interfaces
Researchers previously have shown that a depth camera system, such as Kinect, can be combined with a projector to turn almost any surface into a touchscreen. But...
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Nasa Invites the Public to Fly Along with Voyager
A gauge on the Voyager home page, http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov, tracks levels of two of the three key signs scientists believe will appear when the spacecraft leave...
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Taking the Pulse of the Crowd
A new system of heart-rate monitors may be connected to a mobile phone system to monitor the collective heart rate of a crowd.
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New System to Combat Online Banking Fraud
University of Cambridge spinoff Cronto is helping to protect customers against the threat posed by man-in-the-browser Trojan malware.
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