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Keeping Time By Rubidium at the Naval Observatory
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Keeping Time By Rubidium at the Naval Observatory

You know when you dial a number, and a man reads you the exact time at the tone? That precise timekeeping starts at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.

Linking Television and the Internet
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Linking Television and the Internet

Researchers  are working on the LinkedTV project, a new television concept designed to connect TV offerings with the Internet. 

Interview With the Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2014: Wendy Hall
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Interview With the Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2014: Wendy Hall

ComputerWeekly.com has named University of Southampton computer science professor Wendy Hall its Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2014. 

Will Workplace Robots Cost More Jobs Than They Create?
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Will Workplace Robots Cost More Jobs Than They Create?

The UK unveiled its robotics strategy last Tuesday, revealing a plan drawn up by the Technology Strategy Board that aims to spur the country on towards capturing...

Ibm: Commercial Nanotube Transistors Are Coming Soon
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Ibm: Commercial Nanotube Transistors Are Coming Soon

For more than a decade, engineers have been fretting that they are running out of tricks for continuing to shrink silicon transistors.

Hospitals Are Mining Patients' Credit Card Data to Predict Who Will Get Sick
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Hospitals Are Mining Patients' Credit Card Data to Predict Who Will Get Sick

Imagine getting a call from your doctor if you let your gym membership lapse, make a habit of buying candy bars at the checkout counter, or begin shopping at plus...

Machines Finally Match Monkeys in Key Image-Recognition Test
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Machines Finally Match Monkeys in Key Image-Recognition Test

There are so many ways that humans are still superior to machines.

Inside the Secret Building That's Bringing Cell Service To Nyc's Subway
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Inside the Secret Building That's Bringing Cell Service To Nyc's Subway

As Hurricane Sandy revealed almost two years ago, New York's 100-year-old subway is not a modern and robust system.

The Bbc Doesn't Want to Be Forgotten By Google
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The Bbc Doesn't Want to Be Forgotten By Google

Since agreeing to comply with the European Court of Justice’s decision that people have the right to be forgotten, Google has received about 50,000 requests for...

Google Agitates For a Revolution in Web Development
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Google Agitates For a Revolution in Web Development

Google company engineers say Web Components, a World Wide Web Consortium standard designed to help organize complex Web pages, will "change everything." 

Fake Followers for Hire, and How to Spot Them
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Fake Followers for Hire, and How to Spot Them

Researchers have developed machine-learning software that can identify crowdturfing, a term for falsifying one's popularity on social media sites. 

Panel Endorses Some Nsa Internet Surveillance
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Panel Endorses Some Nsa Internet Surveillance

A bipartisan privacy board on Wednesday unanimously adopted its report that endorses some of the National Security Agency's Internet surveillance programs.

Could Color Wheels Make For Easier, More Secure Passwords?
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Could Color Wheels Make For Easier, More Secure Passwords?

The password as we know it is in critical condition.

Can Google Design a Car Touchscreen That Isn't a Dangerous Distraction?
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Can Google Design a Car Touchscreen That Isn't a Dangerous Distraction?

Automakers are increasingly integrating touchscreens into vehicles—to the dismay of safe-driving advocates, who justifiably fear people are already too distracted...

Carnegie Mellon Machine Learning Method Automatically Cuts Boring Parts From Long Consumer and Security Videos
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Carnegie Mellon Machine Learning Method Automatically Cuts Boring Parts From Long Consumer and Security Videos

Smartphones, GoPro cameras, and Google Glass are making it easy for anyone to shoot video anywhere.

Norway Internet Voting Experiment Fails
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Norway Internet Voting Experiment Fails

Norway has ended a pilot online voting program. 

Forecasting Future May One Day Become as Practical as Predicting Weather, Thanks to Big Data Advances
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Forecasting Future May One Day Become as Practical as Predicting Weather, Thanks to Big Data Advances

The Early Model Based Even Recognition using Surrogates (EMBERS) project was created to develop ways to use big data to forecast significant societal events. 

Ask the Crowd: Robots Learn Faster, Better With Online Helpers
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Ask the Crowd: Robots Learn Faster, Better With Online Helpers

University of Washington computer scientists have discovered crowdsourcing is an effective way to teach robots.

Quantum State May Be a Real Thing
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Quantum State May Be a Real Thing

At the very heart of quantum mechanics lies a monster waiting to consume unwary minds.

How a Little Open Source Project Came to Dominate Big Data
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How a Little Open Source Project Came to Dominate Big Data

It began as a nagging technical problem that needed solving.
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