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Webrtc Hammers Out Compromise on Video Codec Standards
Proponents of WebRTC, the Web standard for real-time communications via browsers, have reached a compromise on the H.264 and VP8 video codecs.
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Molecular Flash Memory Could Store Massive Amounts of Data
Novel molecules could help expand the storage capacity of flash memory, which is widely used in mobile devices such as smartphones.
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How to Teach Self-Driving Cars Ethics of the Road
A large truck speeding in the opposite direction suddenly veers into your lane.
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Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software
Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs...
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Stanford Cyber Initiative Will Tackle Internet Technology Concerns From Many Angles
The Stanford Cyber Initiative is a program applying broad Stanford University expertise to cybersecurity, cyberspace, and networked information.
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Silicon Valley Turns Prisoners Into Programmers at San Quentin
A San Francisco-based programming boot camp has launched a program in which inmates at San Quentin State Prison will learn the basics of computer coding.
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Hackathon Develops Tech Tools to Fight Ebola Epidemic
The University of Oxford earlier this month hosted the Ebola Crisis Hackathon.
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Supercomputing 2014 Recognizes Outstanding Achievements in Hpc
Both novice and veteran researchers were honored for their contributions to high-performance computing at the Supercomputing 2014 (SC14) conference.
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Researchers Advance 'quantum Teleportation'
The world at the quantum level, at the scale of particles too small for the eye to see, is very strange.
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11 Innovators Receive Hpc Excellence Awards
IDC has announced the winners of the eighth round of its HPC Innovation Excellence Award recognizing achievements in high-performance computing.
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Intel Turns to Light Beams to Speed p Supercomputers
Intel has developed a technology that uses optical cables and light pulses to move data in supercomputers.
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Georgia Tech Professor Proposes Alternative to 'turing Test'
Georgia Institute of Technology professor Mark Riedl has developed a more rigorous way to evaluate the intelligence of a computer than the Turing Test.
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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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Researchers Push Supercomputing's Bleeding Edge With Diverse Applications
One of five finalists will be awarded ACM's Gordon Bell Prize today at the SC14 high-performance computing conference in New Orleans.
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Apple and Others Encrypt Phones, Fueling Government Standoff
Smartphone makers' use of technology to encrypt their devices has provoked a standoff with the U.S. government, which sees such measures as impeding law enforcement...
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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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Evolution Software Looks Beyond the Branches
PhyloNet is an open source Java-based program that accounts for both the horizontal and vertical inheritance of genetic material among genomes.
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Software to Automatically Outline Bones in X-Rays
Researchers at the University of Manchester are developing software that can automatically pick out the shapes of bones in X-rays.
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Supercomputational Thinking at Sc14
Considering how computational scientists have developed supercomputing technologies, and where it is helping take everyone else.
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