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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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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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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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Pluto-Bound Probe Tweaks Its Trajectory
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft fine-tuned its path toward Pluto on Tuesday, firing its rocket thrusters for 93 seconds to aim for a fleeting flyby of the distant...
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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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The Real Star Wars: Air Force Heads to the Heavens For Weapons Guidance
The success of precision-guided bombs in 1991’s Gulf War was a revelation.
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Quantum Sensor's Advantages Survive Entanglement Breakdown
MIT researchers have demonstrated that entanglement can improve the performance of optical sensors, even when it does not survive light's interaction with the environment...
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From Massive Supercomputers Come Tiniest Transistors
Purdue University researchers have created a set of software tools that can predict the future behavior of nanoscale transistors. The software simulates the phenomena...
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Use of Rover Arm Expected to Resume in a Few Days
Managers of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover mission expect to approve resumption of rover arm movements as early as next week while continuing analysis of what appears...
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Eben Upton: The Raspberry Pi Pioneer
Eben Upton, the inventor of the Raspberry Pi computer, got his start coding games in BASIC on a BBC Micro when he was 10.
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What Is Privacy? New Research Reveals We May Need a New Definition
Rutgers University professor Vivek Singh has found that information taken from just four credit card transactions can uniquely identify a person.
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Addressing the Human Brain's Big Data Challenge With Brainx3
Researchers have developed BrainX3, a platform for visualizing, simulating, analyzing, and interacting with massive amounts of data.
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Time to Disconnect: Why the Sim Card Has Had Its Day
SIM cards used by mobile phones to connect to phone networks will soon be 25 years old, and have been found to be vulnerable.
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Heavy Smartphone Use Linked to Lower Intelligence
New research from the University of Waterloo suggests a link between heavy smartphone use and lower intelligence.
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Engineering the Perfect Baby
If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it.
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Dig This: I Operated a Giant Excavator from 2,500km Away
Thanks to Ericsson, I can check off operating heavy machinery from my bucket list.
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