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Gaming Improves Multitasking Skills
Sixty-five-year-old Ann Linsey was starting to worry about how easily she got distracted from whatever she was doing.
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Robots: Is the Uncanny Valley Real?
Mick Walters opens a door in his lab and points his computer's camera towards the small, blurry, tan-coloured object he has just revealed. "This is Kaspar Two,"...
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Windows 8 Picture Passwords Easily Cracked
Security researchers have found taht Microsoft Windows 8's picture gesture authentication system is not difficult to crack.
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Skype Eye Contact Finally Possible
A new software prototype could make videoconferencing more realistic for home users, by creating the impression of eye contact.
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Beyond The Shadows: Apple's Ios 7 Is All About The Screen
At some point in the coming weeks, users of Apple iPhones and iPads will wake up to an alert that there is a new version of the company's mobile operating system...
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Your Phone Is Blabbing Your Location to Anyone Who Will Listen
Everywhere you go, your phone is sending out signals that can be assembled to form a picture of your movements.
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The Digital Divide Continues
There is still a significant number of people in the United States who do not own a computer or have home Internet access.
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NASA's Mars Curiosity Debuts Autonomous Navigation
The Curiosity Mars rover recently used autonomous navigation to drive onto ground that could not be confirmed safe before the start of the drive.
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Neutron Stars in the Computer Cloud
Using the Einstein@Home project to analyze archival data from the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Australia, researchers have discovered 24 pulsars.
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Nissan Plans to Offer Affordable Self-Driving Cars By 2020
Nissan says it is on track to begin selling self-driving cars by the end of this decade.
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Drug Agents se Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.s.a.'s
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that...
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The Insane and Exciting Future of the Bionic Body
Bertolt Meyer pulls off his left forearm and gives it to me.
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Vending Machines Get Smart to Accommodate the Cashless
More than 40 percent of U.S. adults say they can go a week without paying for something with cash, according to a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports last year...
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Inside the Response to the New York Times Attack
Late Tuesday morning, one of the engineers in CloudFlare's San Francisco office saw a message on Twitter saying that the New York Times Web site was down. Minutes...
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A Camera That Sees Like the Human Eye
The retina is an enormously powerful tool. It sorts through massive amounts of data while operating on only a fraction of the power that a conventional digital...
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Think You Can Drive a Bulldozer?
As he closed the door, leaving me alone at the controls of a 41,000-pound bulldozer with list price of nearly $432,000, a Komatsu Ltd. executive shouted, "No worries...
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Plan B For Navigation
Scientists and engineers are exploring alternative navigation systems against the possibility of GPS failing.
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Researcher Controls Colleague's Motions in First Human Brain-to-Brain Interface
University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send...
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How Scholars Hack the World of Academic Publishing Now
If you want to understand the modern academy, it wouldn't hurt to start at "impact factor."
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