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Telepresence Robot Replaces Editor at Ieee Spectrum
With several companies offering telepresence robots to act as people's proxies at the office, IEEE Spectrum magazine investigated their use earlier this year by...
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Virtual Router Smashes Speed Records
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed a networking router that transmits data at nearly 40 gigabytes per second,...
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'spintronics' Breakthrough Holds Promise For Next-Generation Computers
University of Kansas (KU) researchers have discovered a way to recognize currents of spinning electrons, or spintronics, within a semiconductor using powerful lasers...
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Tiny Logo Demonstrates Advanced Display Technology
In a step toward more efficient, smaller and higher-definition display screens, a University of Michigan professor has developed a new type of color filter made...
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Juicing Up Laptops and Cell Phones with Soda Pop or Vegetable Oil?
Scientists report the development of the first fuel cell designed to produce electricity with biochemical technology borrowed from the biological powerhouses...
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Synaptic Behavior Captured By New Memristor Circuit Design
University of Tehran researchers Farnood Merrikh-Bayat and Saeed Bagheri have found that two memristors used in a series work more like a human brain using Hebbian...
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Nasa's Robot Rovers Keep on Rolling
Researchers from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock are working with robotics engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to prevent the space agency's...
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Cycling Through Data
Sensor-equipped bicycles are providing valuable data to cyclists, city planners, and computer scientists.
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Hi-Tech Rechargeable Batteries Developed For Military
MIT scientists reported progress in using a common virus to develop improved materials for high-performance, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that could be...
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Robots Learning From Experience
Software that enables robots to move objects about a room, building up ever-more knowledge about their environment, is an important step forward in artificial intelligence...
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Ho-Hum to High Performance: Boring Material Could Lead to Electronics Revolution
Cornell University researchers have found that when the oxide compound europium titanate is sliced nanometers thin and stretched on a specially designed template...
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Virtual Router Smashes Speed Records
Software-driven networking will enable new Internet protocols.
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Scientists Hack Into Cars' Computers
It sounds like a Hollywood movie: cybercriminals in a van use a laptop to hack wirelessly into the computer-controlled systems of the car on the road ahead. In...
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NSF Announces New Expeditions in Computing Awards
Three new $10 million awards continue the NSF's Expeditions program pursuing ambitious, fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing...
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Intel-McAfee Deal Bets on Building Security Into Hardware
Intel Corp. agreed to buy security-software specialist McAfee Inc. Thursday for $7.68 billion, a surprise transaction that underscores the company's determination...
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The Future of Interfaces Is Mobile, Screen-Less and Invisible
Google's Android developer advocate Reto Meier recently described where computer interfaces are headed, predicting that in five years there will be widely available...
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Dual-Core Smartphones on the Horizon
Smartphones with dual-core Arm processors could add faster processing, video capabilities.
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A Surfboard Gets an Onboard Computer
Computers are everywhere these days—even on surfboards. University of California, San Diego mechanical engineering undergraduates outfitted a surfboard with a...
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Safe Travels
University of Texas at San Antonio researchers have developed SMall Aircraft Risk Technology (SMART), software that can run thousands of simulations on a given...
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