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Entangle Qubits for a True Random Number Machine
Pure randomness is surprisingly difficult to create, even if you draw on the inherent randomness of quantum mechanics. Now, though, a "true" random number generator...
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Tv Outside the Box
MIT researchers have developed Surround Vision, a system that works with Internet-connected handheld devices to enable TV viewers to see what is happening off screen...
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Follow the Smart Phones
A service launched last week by Skyhook Wireless will make it possible for other businesses to predict, with new accuracy, which local bars will be hot at 8 p.m...
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New Computer Interface Goes Beyond Just Touch
Microsoft researchers have developed Manual Deskterity, a computer interface that combines touch input with the precision of a pen.
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Touch Floors Could Be Next Step in Computer Interfaces
Imagine entering your living room and sliding your foot purposefully over a particular stretch of floor. Your hi-fi system springs to life, pumping out the sounds...
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Why Machines Do Not Understand Human Speech
From the moment people are born, they learn to make associations and to understand words depending on the context of a sentence. This learning continues throughout...
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Augmented Reality Brings Movie Magic to City Visits
Many people's first encounter with a foreign country is in the cinema. Using a combination of location-based services and augmented reality, European researchers...
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Sas Seeks to Improve Data Mining of Social Media
No one doubts that social media--all the stuff on Facebook, Twitter and other online forums--provides a rich lode of user sentiment that companies ought to be able...
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In Profile: Missy Cummings
Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings, director of MIT's Humans and Automation Laboratory, wants to make it easier for humans to supervise automatic control systems,...
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Intel Guru Says 3-D Internet Will Arrive Within Five Years
Intel Labs technology evangelist Sean Koehl speculates that technological advances could make realistic three-dimensional Internet applications a reality in five...
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Robots With Better Observation
Researchers say that new three-dimensional sensing technology under development will be more similar to the human eye in the way it enables robots to observe their...
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Stanford Researchers' Audi to Climb Pikes Peak Without a Driver
It can traverse rough terrain, accelerate quickly and negotiate sharp turns like other high-performance sports cars, but there's one thing that sets this Audi coupe...
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Visual Tricks Can Make Downloads Seem Quicker
Twiddling our thumbs while waiting for files to download is one of the great frustrations of our high-speed, technologically interconnected world. Computer scientists...
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Math Tutoring Software Reads Visual Clues
University of Massachusetts in Amherst researchers are testing a math tutoring program that uses a built-in camera to identify visual cues from the student user...
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Robotc2.0 Gives Students Cross-Platform Robot Programming
Robot programming is many students' first exposure to the world of computer programming. As with so much of the computing world, however, different robot platforms...
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Comcast Ruling Raises Questions on FCC Regulation
At first glance, Tuesday's federal court ruling on Comcast looked like a clean win for the cable giant and for competitors including Time Warner and AT&T. The court...
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Computer-Enhanced Vision Adds a 'sixth Sense'
Engineers and scientists at the inaugural Augmented Human International Conference in France unveiled cutting-edge research on improving human perception with information...
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CM Student ses Skin as Input For Mobile Devices
A Carnegie Mellon student and Microsoft researchers have developed Skinput, technology that combines bio-acoustic sensors and machine-learning programs to enable...
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Look, No Hands: Cars That Drive Better Than You
With his jeans, white trainers and stripy top, Bob is every inch the well-dressed 6-year-old. He's standing in the middle of a hotel car park and, scarily, I'm...
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