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Biometrics For Care Environments
U.K. researchers are exploring user-friendly ways to enable telecare systems and applications to recognize individuals from their facial and vocal characteristics...
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Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street
Last spring, Dow Jones launched a new service called Lexicon, which sends real-time financial news to professional investors. This in itself is not surprising...
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Ces: The Future of Interfaces
People are no longer limited to interacting with computers via a mouse and keyboard. HCI experts say that new applications are driving new interfaces—smartphones...
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Text-Based Video Navigation
The MIT150 website, celebrating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 150th anniversary, offers a collection of video interviews that makes use of a new navigation...
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Mimic-Bots Learn to Do As We Do
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea have developed a robotic system that responds to the actions of the person...
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Hackers Find New Way to Cheat on Wall Street
High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in microseconds, are vulnerable to manipulation by hackers who can inject tiny amounts...
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The New Speed of Money, Reshaping Markets
A substantial part of all stock trading in the United States takes place in a warehouse in a nondescript business park just off the New Jersey Turnpike.
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IBM's Jeopardy Strategy: Divide and Conquer
When it comes tackling a challenge as tough as answering a human question, the best computational approach may be to break the job down into multiple parts and...
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The Power of 'convergence'
In white paper, MIT scientists discuss potential for revolutionary advances in biomedicine and other fields.
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Utah's $1.5 Billion Cyber-Security Center Under Way
Today's groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency data center is being billed as important in the short term for construction jobs and important...
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Interactive Window Shopping
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications researchers have developed a three-dimensional camera system that enables consumers to interact with items inside window...
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Beyond Surveillance: Darpa Wants a Thinking Camera
It’s tough being an imagery analyst for the U.S. military: you’re drowning in pictures and drone video, with more pouring in endlessly from the tons of sensors...
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The American Wikileaks Hacker
Jacob Appelbaum fights repressive regimes around the world—including his own.
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Don't Track Me, Bro
Here is how Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, describes the current state of affairs on the Internet: "Say I’m walking through a mall...
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Graphics Ability Is the New Goal For Chip Makers
In the good old days, it was all about speed.
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Intel's 2nd-Gen Chip Arrives, with Hollywood in Tow
Intel is officially announcing its next-generation processor tomorrow—and Hollywood is playing a big role.
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Perfecting Animation, via Science
Eitan Grinspun, the director of Columbia University’s Computer Graphics Group, doesn't quite qualify as hairdresser to the stars.
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Android Programming's ps and Downs
As smartphones using Google's Android operating system become mainstream, James Steele and Nelson To are in a pretty good position.
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Electric Currents Move Racetrack Memory Bits with Precision
The moving bits in the proposed data-storage scheme do not stop and start instantaneously, but their motion is easy to quantify.
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