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What's Inside the Ipad's Chip?
Despite widespread speculation, nothing beyond what Steve Jobs announced last week is known about the A4 chip at the heart of the Apple iPad. Jobs described the...
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Making Vagueness Into an Exact Science
Aberdeen University computer scientist Kees van Deemter is creating a system that would be able to understand the meaning of vague phrases.
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Firm Develops Technology to Crush Cyber Attacks in Their Tracks
Cyber attacks are becoming the bane of governments and companies alike. A Virginia based engineering research company may have the answer. InZero Systems has developed...
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DARPA Develops 4-Legged Robot to Haul Equipment Over Rugged Terrain
Looking like a robotic mule, the Legged Squad Support System (LS3) being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will carry 400 pounds of equipment...
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The Uncertain Future For Social Robots
Being hacked by a robot requires much less hardware than I expected. There’s no need for virtual-reality goggles or 3D holograms. There are no skullcaps studded...
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Game Changers: How Videogames Trained a Generation of Athletes
The situation was desperate for the Denver Broncos. On the first Sunday of the National Football League’s 2009 season, with only 28 seconds left in the game, they...
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Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We
In computing, the vision always precedes the reality by a decade or more. The pattern has held true from the personal computer to the Internet, as it takes time...
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Supercomputer Breakthrough Allows Astronomers to Share niverse Simulations
Supercomputing has helped astrophysicists create massive models of the universe, but such simulations remain out of reach for many in the United States and around...
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No Catastrophes Please, It's Software Modeling
Thales Research and Technology (TRT) researchers have created a development platform that enables applications to tackle the increasing complexity of modern computer...
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The Web Way to Learn a Language
The young woman seated next to us at the sushi bar exuded a vaguely exotic air; her looks and style, we thought, made it likely that she was not American born. ...
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Eff Reveals How Your Digital Fingerprint Makes You Easy to Track
Think that turning off cookies and turning on private browsing makes you invisible on the web? Think again. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched...
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Computers Do Better Than Humans at Measuring Some Radiology Images
Ohio State University researchers have developed software that can analyze images of knee ligaments much faster and just as reliably as humans.
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Innovative Technique Can Spot Errors in Key Technological Systems
An innovative computational technique that draws on statistics, imaging, and other disciplines has the capability to detect errors in sensitive technological systems...
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Quantum Computer Simulates Hydrogen Molecule Just Right
Almost three decades ago, Richard Feynman — known popularly as much for his bongo drumming and pranks as for his brilliant insights into physics — told an electrified...
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Apple Wins Patent For "proximity Sensing" Multi-Touch Display
Apple has been granted a patent for a multi-touch display that can sense when and where a finger is near the screen. The patent was one of 13 granted to Apple,U...
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Supercomputer Center Pursuing Hpc-Based Radiation Therapy
Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego have joined forces with the Department of Radiation Oncology in the university's School of Medicine...
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Pentagon Searches For
One of the trickiest problems in cyber security is trying to figure who’s really behind an attack. Darpa, the Pentagon agency that created the Internet, is trying...
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In Digital Combat, U.s. Finds No Easy Deterrent
On a Monday morning earlier this month, top Pentagon leaders gathered to simulate how they would respond to a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at paralyzing the...
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New Life For Magnetic Tape
Music lovers may have long forsaken them, but magnetic tapes still reign supreme when it comes to storing vast amounts of digital data. And new research from IBM...
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