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The Internet Is Killing Most Languages
You might be living through another mass extinction of species—brought on by us humans, who have been changing climate and fragmenting habitats at an increasing...
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Pay with Your Fingerprint
Anyone with an iPhone 5 can use its fingerprint reader to unlock the device and pay for apps or music in Apple's iTunes store.
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Carnegie Mellon Robot Invites Humans to Play Mean Game of Scrabble
Victor is obsessed with SCRABBLE.
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How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago Today
If you wanted to pick a single date to mark the beginning of the modern era of the web, you could do a lot worse than choosing Thursday, April 1, 2004, the day...
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Teen to Government: Change Your Typeface, Save Millions
A Pittsburgh-area middle school student says his school district can save up to $21,000 annually by printing documents exclusively in the Garamond font.
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Ung Students Test Drones to Be Controlled By Thoughts
A team of students at the University of North Georgia is testing drone technology that can be controlled by a person's thoughts.
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Stodgy, Old Baseball Invents the Future of Instant Replay
Major League Baseball is not inclined to tinker much with America's pastime, aside from the occasional tweak to the number of teams in the playoffs.
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Open Enigma Project Makes Encryption Machines Accessible
Enigma machines have captivated everyone from legendary code breaker Alan Turing and the dedicated cryptographers from England's Bletchley Park to historians and...
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Dell's New Research Division Wants Computers to Detect Your Mood
Dell Research is conducting experiments to detect a person's mood, for use in computers involved with education and communications.
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Penn Scientists Teach Computer Programs How to Teach Programming
University of Pennsylvania researchers are developing "automated program synthesis tools" that check whether human-supplied code operates correctly.
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Linux Foundation Finds That Collaboration Pays Off
In a Linux Foundation survey of 700 business managers and software developers, 91 percent said collaborative software development is important to their business...
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The Electronic Holy War
In May, 1997, I.B.M.'s Deep Blue supercomputer prevailed over Garry Kasparov in a series of six chess games, becoming the first computer to defeat a world-champion...
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Japanese Language Inspires Student to Develop nique Computer Game
Koe is a role-playing game that teaches users the Japanese language within the context of entertaining game play.
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Carnegie Mellon Robot Invites Humans to Play Mean Game of Scrabble
Victor is a Scrabble-playing social robot designed to help scientists better understand what it takes to get people to enjoy interacting with a robot.
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Hypnotic Art Shows How Patterns Emerge From Randomness in Nature
British mathematician Alan Turing is perhaps best known for the Turing test, which determines if a computer can be considered intelligent based on whether it can...
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New Focus For Robotics: Artificial Creativity
The founding director of the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech is exploring how creative robots can be.
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The Virtual Genius of Oculus Rift
To understand why Oculus Rift matters, it helps to know who John Carmack is.
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The Robot Tricks to Bridge the Uncanny Valley
If A robot bleeped and squeaked with personality like R2D2 from Star Wars, would you like it better?
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