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Make America Tweet Again
Software developed by a team of researchers at the University of Utah can identify an individual's feelings toward current events by analyzing political tweets....
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Internet-Based and Open Source: How E-Voting Works Around the Globe
Although electronic voting in various forms has become more prevalent outside the U.S., its primary difficulties include its inability to verify source code and...
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Nyu Is Building a Real-Life Holodeck
New York University recently received a $2.9-million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop an immersive virtual reality experience.
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Face Electrodes Let You Taste and Chew in Virtual Reality
You're having dinner in a virtual reality game. The banquet scene in front of you looks so real that your mouth is watering.
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Five Possible Hacks to Worry About Before Election Day
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia dismisses the idea that he has the power to interfere with Tuesday's election.
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Thanks For the Memory: How Cheap Ram Changes Computing
RAM (random access memory) is a component of every computer system, from tiny embedded controllers to enterprise servers.
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From Dinosaurs to Crime Scenes--How Our New Footprint Software Can Bring the Past to Life
Using three-dimensional technologies, law enforcement can digitally capture the data in a footprint left at the scene of a crime and subject it to detailed forensic...
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Machine Learning to Help Physicians
New software from researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute can aid physicians who must visually judge medical images to determine the course of cancer treatment...
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Glasses Make Face Recognition Tech Think You're Milla Jovovich
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have designed eyeglasses with patterned frames that can obscure the identity of the wearer to facial-recognition algorithms...
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New Automatic Forest Fire Detection System By sing Surveillance Drones
Researchers from the Technical University of Madrid in Spain are developing the Forest Fire Detection Index to detect forest fires.
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Schiaparelli Impact Site on Mars, in Color
On Nov. 1, 2016, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed the impact site of Europe's Schiaparelli...
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Researchers Aim to Make Digital Assistants Like Siri Less Annoying
Researchers continue to work on developing digital assistant technology that will help run people's lives more smoothly.
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The Secret to Small Drone Obstacle Avoidance Is to Just Crash Into Stuff
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab are working to develop autonomous quadcopters that can fly through windows without running into them.
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A Tiny Machine
University of California, Santa Barbara researchers have developed a design for a functional nanoscale computing device.
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New Research Center to Explore Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
The ethics center is being established at a time of growing international concern about the impact of artificial intelligence technologies.
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Inside Darpa's Plan to Make Old Aircraft Autonomous With Robot Arms
There's a reason Tesla and its competitors use the term "autopilot" for their semi-autonomous cars: Aviation is way ahead of the auto industry when it comes to...
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Making Computers Explain Themselves
Researchers have developed a method for training neural networks so they provide not only predictions and classifications, but also rationales for their decisions...
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Wearable Health: Exploring Human-Centered Solutions of On-Body Technologies to Improve Healthcare
George Mason University professor Vivian Motti proposes the concept of noninvasive, wearable technologies to improve healthcare, as well as education.
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The Kids Who Might Save the Internet
The future of the Internet may lie in the hands of a new generation of computer-savvy children forming a hacker community disposed toward fortifying Web security...
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