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Computers Can Take Social Media Data and Make Marketing Personas
Pennsylvania State University researchers have used computers to study information from social media accounts and automatically build marketing personas.
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nderwater Radio, Anyone?
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to build wireless radio transmitters in environments that have previously thwarted communication.
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Data Diversity
Selecting diverse subsets from a much larger dataset promises to be much more practical using a new algorithm designed by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute...
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Welcome to the Machines
The home robotics market poised for growth, technological advancement.
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Where Is the Ice on Ceres? New Nasa Dawn Findings
At first glance, Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, may not look icy.
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Ephemeral Antimatter Atoms Pinned Down in Milestone Laser Test
In a technical tour-de-force, physicists have made the first measurements of how antimatter atoms absorb light.
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Posture Could Explain Why Women Get More Vr Sickness Than Men
New studies explore why women experience more motion sickness than men while using virtual reality.
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Autonomous Swarmboats: New Missions, Safe Harbors
Researchers used a combination of software, radar, and other sensors to develop a swarm of autonomous rigid hull inflatable boats and other small boats that can...
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How Do We Keep Gps Safe From Sabotage?
Stanford University professor Per Enge is working to combat potential threats to autonomous navigation systems.
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Artificial Intelligence to Predict Odors
Researchers are working on the Computer Linguistics for Olfaction project to develop an application that can predict which molecule structures will produce or suppress...
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Elevator Makers Think Outside the Box, and Even Sideways
ThyssenKrupp's new $43 million elevator test tower soars 246 meters (808 ft) above the German town of Rottweil, but the company's lifts chief is not only thinking...
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Nasa Releases New Eye-Popping View of Carbon Dioxide
A new NASA supercomputer project builds on the agency's satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and combines them with a sophisticated Earth system model to provide...
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.s. Moves Exascale Goalpost, Targets 2021 Delivery
The U.S. timeline for achieving exascale supercomputer performance will be accelerated by one year.
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This Flying Robot Is the Newest Expert Inspecting Your City's Bridges
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Northeastern University have developed a drone that can create a high-resolution three-dimensional model of...
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Making Big Data Manageable
Researchers presented a new coreset-generation technique for handling big data at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Barcelona, Spain.
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California to Regulate Energy se of Desktop Computers and Monitors
The California Energy Commission on Wednesday agreed to pass new regulations for energy efficiency in desktop computers and monitors.
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Earth's Magnetic Fields Could Track Ocean Heat: Nasa
As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the planet's ocean—but monitoring the magnitude of that heat content is a difficult task.
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Paving the Way For Light-Based Circuits
Researchers from the Institute for Basic Science in Korea have developed three key components for building circuits that work with light instead of electrons.
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Tsu Scientists Discovered How to Avoid Congestion of Mobile Network
Researchers at Tomsk State University in Russia have developed a universal mathematical approach to queuing theory that can be used to eliminate lines in shops...
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