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Egyptian Professor Chipping Away at Energy Efficiency
A Brown University professor is studying ways to increase the energy efficiency of computing systems without sacrificing performance.
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ta Research Will Lead to More Efficient Computer Modeling
A group of engineers are developing hybrid software and hardware approaches to testing electric machines during the design stage.
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Cyberthreat Posed By China and Iran Confounds White House
A question from a member of the Pentagon’s new cyberwarfare unit the other day prompted President Obama to voice his frustration about America's seeming inability...
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Brain-Controlled Smart Home Lets You Turn the Tv On By Thinking
Feeling cold? Your home already knows, and turns up the heat. Sick of the TV show you are watching? Your home changes the channel.
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Glasses Foil Facial Recognition
The PrivacyVisor prevents facial detection/identification programs based on Haar-like feature recognition.
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Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—and It's All in One Place
How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price or customers or, well, metaphysical influence.
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Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level
Imperial College London's Matthew Lai has developed a new artificial intelligence machine which he says can play chess at a master level.
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With 'brandeis' Project, DARPA Seeks to Advance Privacy Technology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's new "Brandeis" program seeks to shield individual privacy instead of infringing on it.
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Scientists Propose App That Detects Emotions Based on Walking Style
Researchers at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are developing a methodology to identify a person's emotional state based on the way they walk.
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Can Software Suffer? Death and Pain in Digital Brains
The ability to digitally simulate physical systems such as the brain to avoid the ethical dilemmas of experimentation on living subjects creates new dilemmas.
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Learning Spoken Language
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can learn to distinguish spoken words.
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Nasa's Lro Discovers Earth's Pull Is 'massaging' Our Moon
In August, 2010, researchers using images from LRO's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) reported the discovery of 14 cliffs known as "lobate scarps" on the moon's surface...
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Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes
Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that...
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The False Science of Cryonics
I woke up on Saturday to a heartbreaking front-page article in the New York Times about a terminally ill young woman who chooses to freeze her brain.
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This Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Robot Arm Lets You Actually Feel What It Touches
At a conference in July, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency presented a robot arm that can be controlled by a human brain, and two months later...
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One Step Towards Faster Organic Electronics
Organic electronics are inexpensive, flexible, and lightweight, but their weakness is speed. However, researchers at Linköping University in Sweden say they have...
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How the Nfl—not the Nsa—is Impacting Data Gathering Well Beyond the Gridiron
As guards were going so far as to check inside NFL fans' wallets as part of routine security measures before a recent preseason game at Levi's Stadium, a different...
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This Helmet Will Make F-35 Pilots Missile-Slinging Cyborgs
Much rightful snark and scorn has been thrown at the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter, the multi-multi-multi-billion dollar jet meant to be the mainstay of...
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First Detailed Public Map of .s. Internet Backbone Could Make It Stronger
It may not look like much at first glance, but a map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford and about a dozen colleagues took...
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