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Faculty Research Reveals Software Improving in Ability to Analyze, Score Writing
Software for evaluating human writing is improving and expanding in use.
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Rutgers Engineers Create Smartphone App to Cut Risk of Power Outages
Rutgers University researchers have developed a smartphone app designed to help engineers respond to widespread power outages.
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Cats and Athletes Teach Robots to Fall
Researchers are studying feline and human behavior during falls with the goal of applying its physics to robotic landings.
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sing 3D Printers to Print Out Self-Learning Robots
Researchers at Oslo University are developing self-instructing robots using three-dimensional printers.
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Study Finds Search Engine Poisoning Persistent, Hard to Solve
A new study finds efforts to prevent the manipulation of search results are having little impact on online fraud.
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Fighting Crime Through Crowdsourcing
Researchers are developing a computing model that uses crowdsourcing to combine and optimize human efforts and machine-computing elements.
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Researchers Test First 'smart Spaces' sing Light to Send Data
Dartmouth College professor Xia Zhou and colleagues are experimenting with "smart spaces" featuring ceiling-mounted light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and light sensors...
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Magic Tricks Created sing Artificial Intelligence for the First Time
Artificial intelligence researchers have taught a computer to create magic tricks.
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Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the niverse
As Google's core business continues to thrive, Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology—ingestible nanoparticles, balloons that beam down broadband—that...
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How Alibaba Is sing Bra Sizes to Predict Online Shopping Habits
Earlier this summer, a group of data crunchers looking at underwear sales at Alibaba came across a curious trend: women who bought larger bra sizes also tended ...
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Big-Data Project Gives Birds-Eye View of the G20
A researcher is mapping the G20 Leaders' Summit in Brisbane, Australia, in real time on Twitter and Instagram to determine how the event affects participants.
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Technology's Latest Quest: Tracking Mental Health
Several teams are working on new ways of determining what elements of behavior or mannerisms could be tracked to monitor a person's mental health.
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'Flight Simulator' for Surgeons: Project Joins Computer Science With Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison investigators are developing a simulator to help medical students virtually practice surgical procedures.
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Twitter Firehose Reveals How Weather Affects Mood
Stanford University researchers have mined geotagged tweets for indications of mood and searched for correlations with the weather.
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Human Thoughts sed to Switch on Genes
Could a futuristic society of humans with the power to control their own biological functions ever become reality?
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Weapons Directed By Robots, Not Humans, Raise Ethical Questions
On a bright fall day last year off the coast of Southern California, an Air Force B-1 bomber launched an experimental missile that may herald the future of warfare...
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To Foil Cyberattacks, Connected Cars Need Overlapping Shields
Smart cars will need many more layers of cyberprotection than automakers believe is necessary.
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Functional Languages Rack p Best Scores For Software Quality
University of California, Davis researchers recently conducted an examination of projects hosted on GitHub and the languages used to build them.
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Dvd Tech Breakthrough Could Produce 1,000 Tb Capacity Discs
A new type of DVD technology will enable users to store 212,000 times the amount of data of a standard 4.7 GB disc.
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