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Printed Graphene Transistors Promise a Flexible Electronic Future
Flexible electronic circuits could one day utilize graphene radio-frequency electronics with sufficient speed to generate, receive, and process telecommunication...
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Sdsc Launches 'sherlock' to Solve Complex National Challenges
The San Diego Supercomputer Center is offering Sherlock technology to provide healthcare and government IT services to U.S. government agencies and universities...
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Computer Can Read Letters Directly From the Brain
A mathematical model has allowed scientists to analyze magnetic resonance imaging scans of the human brain and reconstruct thoughts more accurately than ever before...
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Purdue Researchers Working on Missile-Defense Software
Researchers are developing software to help explore what-if scenarios involving future missile advances in adversarial nations and U.S. defensive capabilities.
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How Footprint Recognition Software May Help Zoology
WildTrack has developed image-processing software that the detects physical characteristics of animal footprints that are hard for an untrained eye to recognize...
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Carmakers Look to Video Games For New Routes to Market
The spoiler popped up automatically when the speedometer of the new Audi RS7 Sportback moved past 130 kilometers an hour on Charles Bridge in central Prague, creating...
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NASA Spacecraft Reactivated to Hunt for Asteroids
A NASA spacecraft that discovered and characterized tens of thousands of asteroids throughout the solar system before being placed in hibernation will return to...
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Apple Patents 3d Gesture i For Ios Based on Proximity Sensor Input
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday published an Apple patent for a method of generating and manipulating a 3D object on a computing device, with the...
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How Pay-Per-Gaze Advertising Could Work With Google Glass
Google wants to see what you see. And then, of course, make money from those images.
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dacity Ceo Says Mooc 'magic Formula' Emerging
After weathering a round of negative publicity, Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun believes vindication is at hand.
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Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Surveillance
The U.S. government's development of a facial recognition surveillance system to identify individuals in crowds is moving ahead.
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Competition: Computer Science Teams Determine the Perfect Baby Name
Computer scientists are applying knowledge engineering methods to the task of helping parents-to-be choose the right name for their child.
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A Personalized Robot Companion for Older People
A customizable robot companion to assist elderly people could become available to consumers within two to three years.
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Google Maps Trained S to Follow Directions. Now Its Former Developer Wants S to Explore.
It's not evident from the way his hair flops casually down and across, nor from his equally relaxed demeanor, but John Hanke is one of Google's most important idea...
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When You Can't Tell Web Suffixes Without a Scorecard
On the Web, there's no place like .home.
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A Cost-Effective Solution to Monitoring and Diagnosing Sleeping Disorders
A new software instantly identifies sleep anomalies by comparing the user's movements to their normal sleeping and waking patterns.
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Nrel Releases Free, Open-Source Energy Analysis Tool
Energy DataBus is a new open source app for tracking, storing, and analyzing energy-related data for optimizing energy use and spotting leaks.
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Advancing Resistive Memory to Improve Portable Electronics
A new technology could lead to the next generation of memory storage devices for portable electronics such as smartphones, laptops, tablets, and digital cameras...
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