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Hackers Devise Wireless Methods For Stealing Atm Users' Pins
Pilfering the personal identification numbers of financial accounts, a potential jackpot for hackers, is tougher to pull off thanks to data encryption and other...
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Gaittrack App Makes Cellphone a Medical Monitor For Heart and Lung Patients
The GaitTrack app turns a smartphone into a medical monitor.
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Carnegie Mellon Group Shows Ipad Skeuomorphism
TouchTools is a gesture design approach that enables users to manipulate tools on the screen just as they would in real life.
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It's Judgment Day For Killer Robots at the nited Nations
Has the age of the Robocop and Terminator arrived?
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Research in India Suggests Google Search Results Can Influence an Election
Google long ago went from being a mere directory of the Internet to a shaper of online reality, helping determine what we see and how.
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.s. Fda Approves 'star Wars' Robotic Arm For Amputees
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a robotic arm for amputees that is named for the "Star Wars" character Luke Skywalker and can perform multiple...
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Cheap Gadget Lets You Steer a Wheelchair with Your Eyes
Put some "crap" technology with some smart software and you get one life-changing solution.
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The Not-So-Distant Future When We Can All pgrade Our Brains
In a decade, cognitive enhancement may have gone mainstream.
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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding
A national education movement with an emphasis on computer science is growing quickly in the U.S.
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Tau Researchers Develop a Smarter Smartphone Camera
Researchers say they have developed a smartphone camera that bridges the gap between the cellphone camera and the digital still camera.
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The Virtual Keyboard Can Soon Be a Reality
Malardalen University researchers are developing virtual technology that could serve as an accessory for Google Glass.
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Janusz Holyst—how Technology Can Influence People's Emotions
In an interview, Cyberemotions project coordinator Janusz Holyst discusses the potential implications of using emotions on the Internet.
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Math Makes Mobile Maps Meaningful
Researchers say a new method will ensure mathematically optimal adaptation of the labeling to the perspective and driving direction on digital maps.
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New Tool Eases the Burden of Creating and Reproducing Analytical Performance Models
Researchers say the Performance and Architecture Lab Modeling system simplifies the construction of a model by automating common modeling tasks.
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Do-It-Yourselfers Inspire Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
New high-tech, affordable manufacturing tools and new sources of funding are helping launch a generation of entrepreneurs and laying the basis for a hardware renaissance...
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An Intelligent Vehicle That Can Detect Pedestrians at Nighttime
Researchers have developed a pedestrian detection system for cars that works in low visibility conditions by capturing body heat with infrared cameras.
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How George Washington niversity Is Shaping a Piece of Google's Smartphone Future
In the labs of George Washington University, students are laboring in labs covered in black-and-white dotted paper, puzzling out how to make a machine that understands...
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Terahertz Imaging on the Cheap
Terahertz imaging, which is already familiar from airport security checkpoints, has a number of other promising applications—from explosives detection to collision...
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Do-It-Yourselfers Inspire Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
In the shadow of Internet monoliths such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, it's easy to forget that Silicon Valley got its start from hard-scrabble tinkerers building...
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