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Virtual Reality Could Let Astronauts 'go to the Beach'
The Virtual Space Station is a virtual reality system that could provide an escape for astronauts on long space missions.
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Electronics in the Operating Room
Electronic devices increasingly are being incorporated into surgical procedures on a functional level.
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How Movie-Makers Read Your Mind
Why is there such interest in finding new ways to gauge audience reactions?
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Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions
Bob Foreman's architecture firm ran up a $166,000 phone bill in a single weekend last March.
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Topcoder Now Has 3,700 Swift Devs
Appirio, which owns and operates the TopCoder platform, says it has registered more than 3,700 Swift developers who are working on 2,000 projects in 110 countries...
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.
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.s. Government Probes Medical Devices For Possible Cyber Flaws
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating about two dozen cases of suspected cybersecurity flaws in medical devices and hospital equipment that...
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.s. National Security Prosecutors Shift Focus from Spies to Cyber
The U.S. Justice Department is restructuring its national security prosecution team to deal with cyber attacks and the threat of sensitive technology ending up...
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Ask Watson or Siri: Artificial Intelligence Is as Elusive as Ever
Scientists are no closer to achieving an overall general artificial intelligence, in the sense that a computer can behave like a human.
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.k. Child Coders Triumph in European Contest
Microsoft recently brought together young programmers from across Europe for a gaming competition based on Kodu, the company's visual programming language.
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The Social Web of Things
Federal University of Bahia researchers suggest a social Internet of Things will enable people and their devices to be more coherently connected.
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Transforming Typewriters For the Digital Generation
A Plymouth University graduate has used sensors and circuit boards to convert a typewriter into an interactive social tool.
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If I Can Get Wi-Fi Here, I Can Get It Anywhere
New York has ambitious plans for its extensive network of pay telephones.
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How the World Came to Be Run By Computer Code
From the scythe to the steam engine, we've always used technology to control the world around us.
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This Incredible Oculus Sim Lets Soccer Players Relive Games
For many athletes, watching game film is a necessary chore.
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A Better Prosthesis: Sandia Invents Sensor to Learn About Fit
Researchers are developing a sensor to determine how an amputated limb changes over time, and a system that automatically accommodates those changes in a prosthesis...
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Weather History Time Machine
Researchers say their new spectral optimal gridding of precipitation software democratizes the analysis of precipitation statistical models.
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Wearable Tech Lets Boss Track Your Work, Rest and Play
Some jobs come with a uniform. For an increasing number of employees, that uniform will soon include a badge that tracks everything they do.
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Making the world’s problem solvers 10% more efficient
Ten years after a Google engineer empowered researchers with Scholar, he can’t bear to leave it.
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