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Crime's Digital Past
Eight interdisciplinary groups of digital humanists recently met to discuss the results of research on London's Old Bailey courthouse's digitized archive. The...
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Mapping the Most Complex Object in the Known niverse
It's paint-by-numbers for neuroscientists. At the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, researchers have devised a faster way of computing...
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Face-Id Tools Pose New Risk
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers are studying how facial-recognition tools can be detrimental to privacy. In a recent test, the researchers were...
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Will Insect-Like Flying Machines Revolutionize Surveillance?
Research at the University of Oxford is playing a key role in the development of revolutionary insect-sized vehicles with micro-cameras, suitable for different...
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'Fluid Cloak' to Help Submarines Leave No Wake
Super-stealthy submarines may one day glide through the water without creating a wake, if a plan to channel fluid intelligently around objects can be made to...
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Expert Hacks Car System, Says Problems Reach to Scada Systems
Researcher Don A. Bailey will be showing at the Black Hat security conference how easy it is to open and even start a car remotely by hacking the cellular network...
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Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have found that just 10 percent of a population is enough to sway the majority of a society.
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Wisebed: The First Pan-European Sensor Network Open to the Scientific Community
The European Wisebed laboratory project, a collaboration between universities and research centers in Germany, Greece, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United...
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Crowdsourced Online Learning Gives Robots Human Skills
Roboticists at Brown University and other institutions are experimenting with using crowdsourcing to teach robots more general skills.
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Nsf's New Shared Supercomputing Platform Goes to Extremes
The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, a distributed computing infrastructure that will connect...
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Scientists Unveil Tools for Rewriting the Code of Life
MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that could be used to rewrite the genetic code of a living cell, allowing them to make large-scale edits...
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Ibm Speeds Storage With Flash: 10b Files in 43 Minutes
IBM researchers have created a data storage system that can scan 10 billion files in 43 minutes, using flash memory to store the metadata, which the storage system...
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Hint of Higgs, but Little More
When its experiments started in earnest earlier this year, many scientists hoped that the world's most powerful collider would turn up new particles, additional...
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Decoding Your Email Personality
Imagine, if you will, a young Mark Zuckerberg circa 2003, tapping out mail messages from his Harvard dorm room. It's a safe bet he never would have guessed that...
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The Importance Of Analyzing Social Intelligence
Huge amounts of data emanating from Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites, which is known collectively as “social intelligence, ” is being gathered...
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Computer Program Could 'revolutionize the World's Healthcare'
The University of Manchester and a group of more than 25 academic institutions and industrial partners are collaborating on IT Future of Medicine, a 10-year project...
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Caltech Researchers Create the First Artificial Neural Network Out of Dna
Caltech researchers have developed an artificial neural network out of DNA, creating a circuit of interacting molecules that can recall memories based on incomplete...
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Thousands of Security Cameras Capture New Yorkers Every Move Around City
At first glance, the guy in the white polo shirt and khaki pants looks like anybody else walking down Broadway.
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DARPA Seeks to Learn From Social For Warfare
The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency has launched the Social Media in Strategic Communication program, which aims to develop...
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