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Computer Scientists Leverage Dark Silicon to Improve Smartphone Battery Life
A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of "dark silicon"—the...
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How Internet Growth Is Playing Out in Top Emerging Markets
The number of Internet users in the top emerging markets is set to nearly double by 2015—a pace of growth that sounds enticing but that actually presents plenty...
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Google Finding Its Voice
Google's Mike Cohen won't be satisfied until anyone who wants to talk to their computer can do so without laughing at the hideous translation or sighing in frustration...
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Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites
The shoes that Julie Matlin recently saw on Zappos.com were kind of cute, or so she thought. But Ms. Matlin wasn’t ready to buy and left the site. Then the shoes...
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Shake to Adjust Your Smartphone's Privacy Settings
Open University's Lukasz Jedrzejczyk led the development of Privacy Shake, an application that enables users with global positioning system-enabled smartphones...
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Size Matters: Canadian Research Could Shrink Gadget Size
McGill University researchers have found that quantum dots are capable of creating large voltages that can keep compact electronic devices running. "We need to...
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Insiders Doubt 2008 Pentagon Hack Was Foreign Spy Attack
In the fall of 2008, a variant of a three year-old, relatively benign worm began winding its way through the U.S. military's networks, spread by troops usingfirst...
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ACM China Nearing Launch
ACM's expansion into China will support local professionals and increase Chinese involvement in ACM's international activities.
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Degrees, Distance, and Dollars
The Internet is making higher education accessible to a whole new class of students—but not necessarily at a lower cost.
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Cycling Through Data
Sensor-equipped bicycles are providing valuable data to cyclists, city planners, and computer scientists.
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Brains and Bytes
Computational neuroscientists are learning that the brain is like a computer, except when it isn't.
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Android Phones Can Substitute For Supercomputers
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Texas Advanced Computing Center have developed an Android application that can take simulations...
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Location-Based Applications Driving Innovation in Wireless Communications Industry
Fifty experts recently attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute's second International Workshop on Opportunistic Radio Frequency Localization for Next Generation...
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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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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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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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Mobile Flaw Could Cloak Clicks
Stanford University researchers have found that mobile websites are extremely vulnerable to attacks from malicious sites using a technique known as tapjacking,...
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Clothing to Power Personal Computers
Researchers at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science are developing technology that would enable individuals to power electronic...
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Researchers Develop Ultrahigh Energy Density Supercapacitors
A team of researchers from the United States and France have developed micro-supercapacitors with the potential to power nomad electronics, wireless sensor networks...
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