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lster Scientists Develop Smartphone 'assistance Agent' For Older People
Researchers are developing Help-on-Demand, a smartphone application designed to help older people fully engage in an increasingly self-serve society.
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In China, Big Data Is Becoming Big Business
With 1.3 billion people, a quickly expanding urban economy, and rising rates of Internet and smartphone penetration, China generates an immense amount of data annually...
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This Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar as Easy as Angry Birds
The target computer is picked. The order to strike has been given. All it takes is a finger swipe and a few taps of the touchscreen, and the cyberattack is prepped...
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Galaxies Fed By Funnels of Fuel
Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years have revealed a likely scenario for how they feed: a cosmic version of swirly straws.
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Perfect Skin: More Touchy-Feely Robots
An EU-funded project has developed sensor technologies and management systems that give robots an artificial sense of touch.
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Light-Beam 'twins' Take Data Farther
Researchers have developed a method involving paired light beams that can increase the data-carrying properties of fiber-optic cables.
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Graphics Gurus Master Wispy Hair, Snowballs, Torn Paper
The computer graphics industry has an insatiable appetite for realism, and researchers next month will show how they plan to feed it with innovations in computerized...
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Xbox? More Like Xbody: Future Game Consoles Will Get nder Your Skin
Imagine playing through a level of the popular zombie shooter "Left 4 Dead" on a system that tracks your heart rate, eye movements, even how clammy your skin is...
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Flame One Year Later
It's been a year since the first reports of the Flame malware surfaced, and looking back at the 12 months since then, it seems more and more each day that the discovery...
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Google Preps Dart 1.0 to Challenge Javascript
Google is preparing to formally release Dart language version 1.0, as well as the 3.0 version of Google Web Toolkit.
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Inside Google's Secret Lab
Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely...
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German Railways to Test Anti-Graffiti Drones
The idea is to use airborne infra-red cameras to collect evidence, which could then be used to prosecute vandals who deface property at night.
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Quantum Or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else
It's exactly the sort of futuristic thinking you'd expect from Google and NASA: Late last week, the organizations announced a partnership to build a Quantum Artificial...
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How Evolution May Help Build Better Robots
In the real world, animals have evolved the ability to get from point A to B by galloping, crawling, and jumping. Now, robots in the virtual world have accomplished...
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even...
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Ibm's Watson Tries to Learn...everything
IBM has given Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute an open-ended three-year charter to improve the intelligence of IBM's Watson software.
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Cracking the 1,000-Core Processor Power Challenge
Researchers are working on solutions to growing power consumption, as mainstream processors are expected to contain hundreds of cores in the near future.
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Google nveils Tornado Crisis-Response Map Effort For Moore, Ok
Google's Crisis Response unit created a crisis map Web page to assist the community of Moore, OK, in its cleanup and recovery.
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