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6 Big Data Projects to Aid Disaster Response
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Japan Science and Technology Agency will fund research to transform disaster management with big data and analytics...
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The Trouble with Reference Rot
The scholarly literature is meant to be a permanent record of science.
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The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe
A surprisingly simple bug afflicts computers controlling planes, spacecraft and more; they get confused by big numbers.
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The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers
When Prabal Dutta accidentally drops a computer, nothing breaks.
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Microsoft Age-Estimate Tool Unleashed Real-Time Virality
Microsoft's Project Oxford has launched a range of machine-learning application programming interfaces in beta, including How-Old.net.
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Carnegie Mellon Project Divides Everyday Tasks, Expenses In Ways Scientifically Calculated to Make Everyone Happy
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a free website that leverages decades of research on how to divide things equitably without resentment.
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With Boxing Match, Video Piracy Battle Enters Latest Round: Mobile Apps
The method used by thousands of people to watch unauthorized broadcasts of Saturday night's big boxing match might have been new, but to longtime media executives...
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What Would You See in a Black Hole?
Something about a black hole just pulls you in. Sure, its gravity is so strong that not even light can elude its grasp. But, there's something else, something harder...
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At the Heart of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotions
Facebook Inc. doesn't yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone's Siri.
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The Cloud Is Dead. Long Live the Cloud
Inspired by the tech behind the digital currency Bitcoin, IBM and Samsung are rethinking how connected devices connect.
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NASA Aids Response to Nepal Quake
NASA and its partners are gathering the best available science and information on the April 25, 2015, magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal, referred to as the Gorkha...
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Joseph Lechleider, a Father of the Dsl Internet Technology, Dies at 82
In the late 1980s, Joseph W. Lechleider came up with a clever solution to a puzzling technical problem, making it possible to bring high-speed Internet service...
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Ancient Dna Tells a New Human Story
Imagine what it must have been like to look through the first telescopes or the first microscopes, or to see the bottom of the sea as clearly as if the water were...
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Robots May Look Like Job-Killers, But It's Hard to See in the Numbers
Robots are goosing the productivity of the world's factories, but does that mean fewer jobs for humans?
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Messenger's Final Image
Originally planned to orbit Mercury for one year, the mission exceeded all expectations, lasting for over four years and acquiring extensive datasets with its seven...
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Deep Learning Machine Solves the Cocktail Party Problem
The cocktail party effect is the ability to focus on a specific human voice while filtering out other voices or background noise.
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Online Voting a Step Closer Thanks to Breakthrough in Security Technology
Researchers say they have developed a new technique that could enable people to cast an election vote online, even if their home computer is infected with malware...
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Detecting Human Life With Remote Technology
Flinders University engineering students have developed new technology to detect human life that they believe is more efficient than published techniques.
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Future 'top Guns' Will Be Battle Managers Flying Bigger, Slower Aircraft
At the dawn of aerial combat 100 years ago, World War I flying aces frequently closed to within 15 meters before firing at enemy aircraft with their machine guns...
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