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Bbc Unveils Micro Bit Coding Device For Make It Digital Initiative
The BBC plans to offer a coding device to more than 1 million U.K. schoolchildren as part of its Make it Digital Initiative.
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Teaching Programming to Preschoolers
Researchers are developing a system that enables young children to program interactive robots by placing stickers on laminated sheets of paper.
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Stanford Launches Smartphone App to Study Heart Health
A new iPhone app called MyHeart Counts enables researchers to collect data about users' physical activity and cardiac risk factors.
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DARPA to Pursue 'revolutionary' Privacy Tools
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a program aimed at developing a system to keep personal and proprietary information private.
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Googlers' Epic Hack Exploits How Memory Leaks Electricity
Researchers have demonstrated they could bypass security protections to induce electromagnetic leakage in the dynamic random access memory of some laptops.
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Guaranteeing Online Anonymity
A new program can provide an accurate assessment of the level of online anonymity an individual user achieves.
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Researchers Develop "visual Turing Test"
Researchers have developed a "visual Turing Test" that can evaluate how well computers understand information taken from images.
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Watch What You Say
Mu'tah University researcher Ahmad Hassanat is developing a computerized system that can analyze the shapes human lips make as they produce different sounds.
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Computer Science Researcher Hopes to Make Access to Cloud Storage More Efficient
A Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University professor plans to further develop a high-performance and load balanced in-memory object caching storage system...
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App, Beacons Guide Travel on nderground For Vision-Impaired
The test trial for a smartphone app that helps the visually impaired use London's public transportation system wraps up this week.
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Just in Time: Tips For Computer Science Teachers When They Need It
Researchers are developing online professional development resources to provide "just-in-time" support for computer science teachers .
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Pre-Crime Software Recruited to Track Gang of Thieves
They always choose the line at the bank farthest from CCTV—that's how the Felony Lane Gang got its name.
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Cybercriminals Are Misappropriating Businesses' Web Addresses
Cybercriminals targeting businesses are stealing more than customer passwords and credit-card numbers these days.
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Finding Out What the Past Smelled Like
It was the smell that hit me first, a heady mixture of roasting meat, woodsmoke, and farmyard manure.
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Personal Fabrication Machines Make 'homemade' Digitally
Digital cutting devices will supplement consumer-level 3D printers.
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Computer Scientists' 4-Million-Euro Project Aims to Make Big Data More Productive and Useful
Researchers are working a Horizon 2020 research project aimed at creating systems that will enable developers to incorporate big data into a variety of applications...
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Ftc Pits Humans Against Robocalls in New Contest
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is launching two contests asking the public to develop solutions for blocking, forwarding, and analyzing automated calls.
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Finger-Mounted Reading Device For the Blind
Researchers have developed a prototype of a finger-mounted device with a built-in camera that converts written text into audio for visually impaired users.
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Silicon Valley Debate on Self-Driving Cars: Do You Need a Map?
The Silicon Valley race to build a self-driving car may revolve around one simple question: to map or not to map.
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