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NASA Algorithms Keep Unmanned Aircraft Away From Commercial Aviation
New algorithms could enable large unmanned aircraft to remain "well clear" of commercial airliners in flight and prevent a disaster.
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Data Miners Dig For Answers About Harper Lee, Truman Capote, and 'go Set a Watchman'
Literature researchers used data science to investigate long-standing debates about the work of Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Go Set a Watchman...
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-M Will Test 3D-Printed, Autonomous 'smartcarts'
University of Michigan researchers are working to understand the challenges of a transportation-on-demand system built around autonomous cars.
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Coders Balk at Making Apps Searchable
The giants of the Web have been pressing developers of mobile apps to index their content so it can be parsed by search engines or linked to from other sites.
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The Hard Disk of the Future Will Be Ten Thousand Times Faster, Researchers Say
Think your computer is pretty slow?
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Moore's Law Is Showing Its Age
No company sounds more religious about Moore’s Law than Intel Corp., whose co-founder made a famous observation about the miniaturization of chip circuitry 50 years...
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Researchers at University of Virginia Use Leds to Create Wireless Networks
An enhancement to Wi-Fi-based networks could enable more data to be transmitted without requiring additional energy.
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Waldio Mode to Improve Smartphone Life Explained at senix
Researchers say they have resolved an anomaly in the Android IO stack known as journaling of journal.
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Computing at the Speed of Light
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Sergio Cantu studies how light can act as an information carrier in computing and calculating.
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Transparent Paper Produces Power With Just a Touch
A new transparent-paper device can generate electrical power from a user's touch (ACS Nano 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02414).
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CMU Leads Google Expedition to Create Technology For 'internet of Things'
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Google are collaborating to turn the college campus into a living laboratory.
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The Icy Mountains of Pluto
New close-up images of a region near Pluto's equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the...
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Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The 'canadian Mafia' Behind Tech's Latest Craze
In the late '90s, Tomi Poutanen, a precocious computer whiz from Finland, hoped to do his dissertation on neural networks, a scientific method aimed at teaching...
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Minecraft Shows Robots How to Stop Dithering
Brown University researchers have developed an approach that enables robots to quickly determine the sequence of actions that will work in a particular environment...
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Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers
Researchers have developed a program designed to automatically fix existing code without requiring the original source.
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Can the Apple Watch Enhance Student Achievement?
Pennsylvania State University researchers will test how the Apple Watch can enhance student achievement via self-regulation and learning strategy.
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Astronomers Teach Machine to 'See' Galaxies in Space
University of Hertfordshire researchers say they have taught a machine to "see" astronomical images, including the ability to distinguish between galaxies.
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The Camera Behind the New Pluto Photos
For decades after its discovery in 1930, Pluto looked like nothing more than a gray smudge in the abyss of space.
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Minecraft Shows Robots How to Stop Dithering
The computer game Minecraft, which depicts a world made up of retro, pixelated blocks that can be modified and rearranged in endless architectural configurations...
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