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AI Spacesuits Turn Astronauts Into Cyborg Biologists
Wired NewsA research team led by University of Chicago geoscientist Patrick McGuire has successfully tested a feature-identifying system that could one day be used...
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New Keys for the Diffusion of Information in Social Networks
Information in social networks travels at an unexpectedly slow pace over the Internet with the exception of a few mass events, according to a study by researchers...
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Endowment Fund to Support Ict Research
Australia will continue to serve as a hub for research into wireless technologies as a result of new funding from the Science and Industry Endowment Fund, announced...
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HTML 5 Progresses Despite Challenges
Development of HTML5 is progressing, but the highly anticipated upgrade to the Web language still faces some major hurdles, particularly its lack of a standard...
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Will Smart Grid Power IPv6?
The Obama administration's effort to transform the U.S.'s electric transmission system into a smart grid could help accelerate the adoption of the next-generation...
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Social Networking Meets Ambient Intelligence
Sharing small snippets of information about your daily life is a key feature of the online social networking revolution. Soon status updates and other social information...
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Jumping on the Multi-Bandwagon
When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security put out an "APB" looking for volunteers to test a new radio that allows first responders to talk to one another across...
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Research Continues on Secure, Mobile, Quantum Communications
Air Force Research Laboratory researcher David H. Hughes is using an optical laser link to create secure quantum communication capabilities for military use. The...
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Living Wallpaper That Devices Can Relate To
The Living Wall project, led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab researcher Leah Buechley, features an electronically enhanced wallpaper that can...
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Social Networks Thrive By Linking
"Reaching out, not building walls" might be one way to characterize the process of social networking. It is also an apt description of the core competitive strategy...
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How 40 Years of the Internet Changed the World
A conference at UCLA on Thursday marked the 40th birthday of the Internet, which was created on Oct. 29, 1969, when a team led by Engineering Professor Leonard...
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Search Technology Digs Deeper For Meaning
Search engine technology is in a state of flux as it digs ever deeper for new meaning. The benefits of the new age of semantic search are closer thanks to the European...
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MIT Researchers Developing Robotic Driving Companion
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA), a robot that would act as a helpful...
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Cell Phones Become Data Collection Tools For Global Development
Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used the Android open-source mobile operating system to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection...
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c Researchers Create All-Electric Spintronics
University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have developed a way to control an electron's spin orientation using only electrical means. Previous methods to develop...
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Bogus E-Mails From Fdic Link Computer sers to Viruses, Expert Says
Computer forensics researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have been tracking new spam that claims to come from the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance...
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Semantic Integration: Meeting the Challenge
Interoperability between data sources is the fundamental challenge of data integration, and NASA computer scientist Richard Keller says that although standards...
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DARPA Looks to Send the Internet Into Orbit
There’ve been satellites orbiting Earth for half a century. But getting information to and from them is still a pain. Which is why Pentagon research arm Darpa is...
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Eavesdropping on Smartphone Secrets
Security researchers at Cryptography Research say the smart card attack involving differential power analysis could be used to target smartphones. Cryptography...
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