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Roll-p Computers and Their Kin
Digital reading technology has evolved from the original Amazon Kindle, which cost $400 and displayed four shades of gray, to devices that are much less expensive...
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Quantifying Human Behavior With Motion-Capture Technology
The University of Southern California is using improvisation and motion-capture technology to study expressive human behavior "to be able to build technologies...
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Virtual Reality You Can Reach Out and Touch
A team of European researchers has "virtually" teleported real objects through cyberspace, touched things in virtual reality and even felt the movements of a virtual...
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IBM Names Firefox Its Default Browser
Firefox has become the default browser for nearly 400,000 IBM employees, a big coup for the open-source project during a time of increasing browser competition.
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Arrests of Alleged Spies Draws Attention to Steganography
A year ago in April, the government says, the accused operative known as Richard Murphy and his supposed wife, "Cynthia Murphy," booted up a computer in their comfy...
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Making Optical Switching More Practical For Telecom
Using all-optical controls could speed the transmission of telecommunications data, but optical switches that can work at high bandwidths need a lot of energy to...
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How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010
For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the world. Her objective:...
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Star Pitchers in a Duel? Tickets Will Cost More
When the San Francisco Giants noticed a sudden surge in ticket sales for the team’s Memorial Day game with the Colorado Rockies, they did something seemingly more...
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Drone Alone: How Airliners May Lose Their Pilots
Would you fly in an airliner knowing there were no pilots in the cockpit? This is no mere hypothetical question. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is taking...
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3-D Virtual Learning Platforms
Carlos III University of Madrid researchers working on the eMadrid project are studying how to use three-dimensional virtual worlds for teaching.
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Algorithms Aid Prosthetics Development
Advanced algorithms could help make the speed and accuracy of clinically viable prosthetic devices more comparable to a healthy human arm.
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'augmented Reality' on Smartphones Brings Teaching Down to Earth
University of Wisconsin at Madison researchers are developing an open source tool that lets designers link text, images, video, and audio into a physical location...
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How Wi-Fi Drains Your Cell Phone
A study finds problems, but also offers software fixes that could help cell phones last significantly longer between charges.
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Working Toward a Smarter, Faster Cloud
A proposed system would let cloud developers control the way their data travels across different machines.
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Computers Make Strides in Recognizing Speech
"Hi, thanks for coming," the medical assistant says, greeting a mother with her 5-year-old son. "Are you here for your child or yourself?" The boy, the mother replies...
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Mainstreaming Augmented Reality
Advancements in computer vision, object recognition, and related technologies are leading to new levels of sophistication in augmented-reality applications and...
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Microsoft's Kinect Isn't Just For Games
Microsoft's long-awaited body-sensing technology, Project Natal, got a new name last week at the E3 expo in Los Angeles. Kinect, as it is now called, is a set-top...
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New Tech Moves Beyond the Mouse, Keyboard and Screen
Goodbye computer mouse, keyboard and monitor. Say hello to a new, simpler era of human-computer interaction--this time, with no clunky hardware standing between...
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'email Triage' Technology Helps Manage rgent Issues on Mobiles
IBM has unveiled research on how people handle email differently when using mobile devices.
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