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A Search Service that Can Peer into the Future
Showing news stories on a timeline has been tried before. But Time Explorer, a prototype news search engine created in Yahoo's Barcelona research lab, generates...
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Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
It’s 1 p.m. on a Thursday and Dianne Bates, 40, juggles three screens. She listens to a few songs on her iPod, then taps out a quick e-mail on her iPhone and...
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Hacker
On the Internet, he was known as BadB, a disembodied criminal flitting from one server to another selling stolen credit card numbers despite being pursued by...
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Online Games Are a Gold Mine for Design Ideas
Gone are the days when video gaming was a private pursuit. Gaming services such as Microsoft's Xbox Live not only connect players in living rooms the world over...
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Mining Mood Swings on the Real-Time Web
Many companies are turning to social-media sites to gauge the success of a new product and service. The latest activity on Facebook, Twitter, and countless other...
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Alien Hunters 'should Look For Artificial Intelligence'
A senior astronomer has said that the hunt for alien life should take into account alien "sentient machines."
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When You Google, Think Ben Gomes
Like few other people on the planet, Google's Ben Gomes knows what interests the world.
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Scientists Hack Into Cars' Computers
It sounds like a Hollywood movie: cybercriminals in a van use a laptop to hack wirelessly into the computer-controlled systems of the car on the road ahead. In...
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For Pianist, Software Is Replacing Sonatas
The pianist Robert Taub was puttering around the house one afternoon in 2004 while his teen-age daughter was practicing for a violin lesson—a Schubert sonatina...
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The MIT Roots of Google
Google’s App Inventor, which lets people with no previous programming experience build applications for mobile phones, draws on decades of MIT research.
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How to Create a 'super Password'
Say goodbye to those wimpy, eight-letter passwords. The 12-character era of online security is upon us, according to a report published this week by the Georgia...
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Virtual Reality You Can Touch
Looking to develop new methods for virtual haptic interaction, ETH Zurich researchers have developed a way to produce virtual copies of real objects, which can...
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Virtual Reality Tackles Tough Questions
Virtual reality is allowing scientists to ask difficult questions about human behaviour that were previously not possible or were thought too unethical.
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Google Offers Cloud-Based Learning Engine
Providing developers with machine learning on tap could unleash a flood of smarter apps.
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The Future of Interfaces Is Mobile, Screen-Less and Invisible
Google's Android developer advocate Reto Meier recently described where computer interfaces are headed, predicting that in five years there will be widely available...
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Virtual Reality Used to Study Haiti, Baja Earthquakes
University of California, Davis researchers are using the virtual reality equipment to study earthquake damage and predict whether faults are likely to move again...
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Wikileaks Encryption se Offers 'legal Challenge'
A novel use of encryption by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks could "challenge the legal system for years to come," according to an influential observer of the...
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Dual-Core Smartphones on the Horizon
Smartphones with dual-core Arm processors could add faster processing, video capabilities.
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New Facebook Location Feature Sparks Privacy Concerns
Moments after Facebook introduced a new feature called Facebook Places on Wednesday that allows its users to share their location and find their friends, advocates...
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