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How Big Data Could Help Identify the Next Felon—or Blame the Wrong Guy
Think of it as big data meets "Minority Report."
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Among the Nsa's Own Tips For Securing Computers: Remove the Webcam
Seems like everything gets hacked these days. Baby monitors. White House employees' personal email. Toilets.
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Dragonflies Can See By Switching 'on' and 'off'
The vision systems for robots could benefit from research into the visual circuit in the brain of dragonflies.
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Why We’re a Long Way From Computers That Really Work Like the Human Brain
Significant work remains to be done before computers designed to simulate the human brain achieves that goal.
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Disney Researchers se Automated Analysis to Find Weakness in Soccer Coaching Strategy
Researchers applying artificial intelligence to the analysis of professional soccer have discovered a strategic error often made by coaches of visiting teams.
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Crowdsourcing Weather Using Smartphone Batteries
A team of app developers and weather experts have created a system that crowdsources hundreds of thousands of smartphone temperature readings.
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Here's What You Find When You Scan the Entire Internet in an Hour
Until recently, scanning the entire Internet, with its billions of unique addresses, was a slow and labor-intensive process.
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Nasa Rover Gets Movie as a Mars Moon Passes Another
The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes directly in front of the other, Deimos, in a new series of sky-watching images from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity...
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Why Can’t My Computer Understand Me?
In a terrific paper just presented at the premier international conference on artificial intelligence, Hector Levesque, a University of Toronto computer scientist...
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An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About
Sometimes, there is an actual eureka moment.
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A New 'dawn' in Exchanges' War on Hackers
When prices on some U.S. stocks suddenly zoomed one day last month and others unexpectedly plunged, stock-market officials set out to detect a possible computer...
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Medical Hacking Poses a Terrifying Threat, in Theory
In the world of hypothetical cybercrime, not much is scarier than the hacked medical device.
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Nasa Voyager Statement About Competing Models to Explain Recent Spacecraft Data
A newly published paper argues that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has already entered interstellar space.
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.s. Brain Project Puts Focus on Ethics
The false mouse memories made the ethicists uneasy. By stimulating certain neurons in the hippocampus, Susumu Tonegawa and his colleagues caused mice to recall...
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Researchers se Augmented Reality to Coach Train Drivers
Central University of Queensland researchers are improving train driving simulations with augmented reality in order to facilitate drivers' skills development....
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U.s. to Standardize Car App/communication Device Components
The U.S. Department of Transportation recently issued a call for public and private researchers to develop "a hypothetical four-layer approach to connected vehicle...
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Weather Channel Now Also Forecasts What You'll Buy
The Weather Channel knows the chance for rain in St. Louis on Friday, what the heat index could reach in Santa Fe on Saturday, and how humid Baltimore may get on...
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Terrorists Turn to Online Chat Rooms to Evade U.s.
Al-Qaida fighters have been using secretive chat rooms and encrypted Internet message boards for planning and coordinating attacks, including the threatened if...
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The New York Times Was Losing $5 Per Second Thanks to Its Web Site Outage
The New York Times is still reeling from a massive Web outage that took down its homepage, its corporate Web site, and everything in between.
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