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Robots Put to Work on E-Waste
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Robots Put to Work on E-Waste

Researchers believe they have automated the process of disassembling liquid crystal display screens for recycling. 

Rutgers Engineers Create Smartphone App to Cut Risk of Power Outages
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Rutgers Engineers Create Smartphone App to Cut Risk of Power Outages

Rutgers University researchers have developed a smartphone app designed to help engineers respond to widespread power outages. 

Apple and Others Encrypt Phones, Fueling Government Standoff
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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...

Evolution Software Looks Beyond the Branches
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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. 

Software to Automatically Outline Bones in X-Rays
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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. 

Supercomputational Thinking at Sc14
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Supercomputational Thinking at Sc14

Considering how computational scientists have developed supercomputing technologies, and where it is helping take everyone else.

Striving to Be Socially Responsible
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Striving to Be Socially Responsible

Electronics manufacturers are taking their social and environmental responsibilities ever more seriously.

Dell Research Works at Intersection of Technology, Customer Needs
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Dell Research Works at Intersection of Technology, Customer Needs

The goal of Dell's research unit is to take a long-term view of trends in the industry and decide which ones to act on based on what makes sense. 

DARPA Wants to Toughen-­p Wan Edge Networking, Security
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DARPA Wants to Toughen-­p Wan Edge Networking, Security

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to improve networking and security at the wide area network edge.

Study Finds Search Engine Poisoning Persistent, Hard to Solve
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Study Finds Search Engine Poisoning Persistent, Hard to Solve

A new study finds efforts to prevent the manipulation of search results are having little impact on online fraud. 

Fighting Crime Through Crowdsourcing
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Fighting Crime Through Crowdsourcing

Researchers are developing a computing model that uses crowdsourcing to combine and optimize human efforts and machine-computing elements. 

Scientists Build a Better Eye on Our World
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Scientists Build a Better Eye on Our World

The University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory will work to develop a video camera that can capture images in 360 degrees. 

Gift From Ballmer Will Expand Computer Science Faculty at Harvard
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Gift From Ballmer Will Expand Computer Science Faculty at Harvard

Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer will make a financial contribution to Harvard that will enable the school to expand its computer science faculty...

81% of Tor ­sers Can Be De-Anonymised By Analysing Router Information, Research Indicates
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81% of Tor ­sers Can Be De-Anonymised By Analysing Router Information, Research Indicates

More than 81% of Tor clients can be ‘de-anonymized’ by exploiting Netflow technology.

Window Washing Skills Beyond a Robot's Reach
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Window Washing Skills Beyond a Robot's Reach

As a pair of window washers clung to a scaffold dangling outside the 68th floor of 1 World Trade Center on Wednesday, the captivating drama left some below wondering...

Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the ­niverse
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Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the ­niverse

As Google's core business continues to thrive, Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology—ingestible nanoparticles, balloons that beam down broadband—that...

Big-Data Project Gives Birds-Eye View of the G20
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Big-Data Project Gives Birds-Eye View of the G20

A researcher is mapping the G20 Leaders' Summit in Brisbane, Australia, in real time on Twitter and Instagram to determine how the event affects participants. 

Technology's Latest Quest: Tracking Mental Health
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Technology's Latest Quest: Tracking Mental Health

Several teams are working on new ways of determining what elements of behavior or mannerisms could be tracked to monitor a person's mental health. 

Robot That Moves Like an Inchworm Could Go Places Other Robots Can't
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Robot That Moves Like an Inchworm Could Go Places Other Robots Can't

Researchers have developed a soft, worm-like robot that moves similarly to inchworms. 

Twitter Firehose Reveals How Weather Affects Mood
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Twitter Firehose Reveals How Weather Affects Mood

Stanford University researchers have mined geotagged tweets for indications of mood and searched for correlations with the weather. 
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