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Watson in Your Pocket: Supercomputer Gets Own Apps
If you could quiz Watson, IBM's all-knowing supercomputer, from an app on your phone, what would you ask it?
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Pig Farmers Get Smart
The ALL-SMART-PIGS project is a European Union-backed research effort developing technologies for turning pig farms into smart farms.
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Research Shows Smartphone Sensors Leave Trackable Fingerprints
Researchers have demonstrated that fingerprints exist within smartphone sensors because of imperfections during the hardware manufacturing process.
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College Celebrates Half Century of Basic Language
Dartmouth University faculty, students, and national experts today will mark the 50th anniversary of the BASIC computing language developed at Dartmouth.
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Ohio Surgeons Hope Chip in Man's Brain Lets Him Control Paralyzed Hand with Thoughts
Chad Bouton snapped awake at 5 a.m.
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How to Build a Gesture-Controlled Web Game with Leap Motion
Modern smartphones have helped shed a light on the power of user interfaces that are driven by gesture and touch. It’s increasingly clear that touch will play a...
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sing ltrasound to Feel Virtual Objects
A startup called Ultrahaptics aims to make gesture control and virtual reality more engaging by using ultrasound waves to let you feel like you’re touching virtual...
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Few Consumers Are Buying Premise of Mobile Wallets
Millions of Americans use smartphones for tasks like hailing a taxi or checking in for a flight. But for buying something in a store?
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Microsoft Research Special Projects Group Tipped to Take on Google X
Microsoft Research's new Special Projects Group is tasked with working on disruptive technologies that could benefit both the company and society.
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Stanford Bioengineers Create Circuit Board Modeled on the Human Brain
Stanford bioengineers have developed a new circuit board modeled on the human brain, possibly opening up new frontiers in robotics and computing.
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Researcher Proposes Alert Tool For Managing Online Privacy Risks
A Princeton University professor has proposed the creation of a "privacy alert" system to help the average Internet user better manage their privacy.
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Supreme Court to Weigh Cellphone Searches
The Supreme Court will consider Tuesday whether police need a warrant to search a suspect's cellphone, in two appeals that could define the parameters of law enforcement...
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Increasingly, Robots of All Sizes Are Human Workmates
Most industrial robots are far less friendly than the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which is safe enough to be a surprisingly popular means of feline transportation...
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Conjuring Images of a Bionic Future
Dick Loizeaux recently found himself meandering through a noisy New York nightclub.
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Study: People Pay More Attention to the pper Half of Field of Vision
People focus more on the upper half of their field of vision, according to a new study .
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Computer Program Could Help Solve Arson Cases
Researchers say they have developed software that can cut the time needed to determine the cause of a deliberately set fire.
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Microsoft Wants You to Educate Its Virtual Assistant
Microsoft's forthcoming mobile operating system upgrade will include Cortana, a virtual personal assistant designed to become more intelligent as people use it. ...
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The First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets
The first rule of riding in Google's self-driving car, says Dmitri Dolgov, is not to compliment Google's self-driving car.
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Supreme Court Takes on Privacy in Digital Age
Two Supreme Court cases about police searches of cellphones without warrants present vastly different views of the ubiquitous device.
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