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The Square Kilometre Array: Radio Silence in Western Australia For Most Powerful Telescope in History
In outback Western Australia, around 350k northeast of the small town of Geraldton, lies an area of land about the size of the Netherlands, but with only 100 humans...
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RoboCup World Championship: UNSW Student Engineers Take Robots to China to Defend Title
University of New South Wales student engineers are in Hefei, China, to defend their Standard Platform League title at the RoboCup World Championships.
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NASA Algorithms Keep Unmanned Aircraft Away From Commercial Aviation
New algorithms could enable large unmanned aircraft to remain "well clear" of commercial airliners in flight and prevent a disaster.
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Data Miners Dig For Answers About Harper Lee, Truman Capote, and 'go Set a Watchman'
Literature researchers used data science to investigate long-standing debates about the work of Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Go Set a Watchman...
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-M Will Test 3D-Printed, Autonomous 'smartcarts'
University of Michigan researchers are working to understand the challenges of a transportation-on-demand system built around autonomous cars.
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Coders Balk at Making Apps Searchable
The giants of the Web have been pressing developers of mobile apps to index their content so it can be parsed by search engines or linked to from other sites.
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Moore's Law Is Showing Its Age
No company sounds more religious about Moore’s Law than Intel Corp., whose co-founder made a famous observation about the miniaturization of chip circuitry 50 years...
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As Tech Firms Track Your Location, Advertisers Zero In For the Sale
Mapping technology advancements from Google Inc and Facebook Inc that provide more precise user location data than ever before are starting to dent advertisers'...
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In Memoriam: Robert Dewar, 1945-2015
Robert Dewar, a significant contributor to the early development and continuing success of the Ada programming language, died June 21 at age 70.
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Waldio Mode to Improve Smartphone Life Explained at senix
Researchers say they have resolved an anomaly in the Android IO stack known as journaling of journal.
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New Cyber Programs Debut in California, Louisiana
Louisiana Tech University and the University of San Diego are creating new cyber programs.
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Computing at the Speed of Light
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Sergio Cantu studies how light can act as an information carrier in computing and calculating.
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CMU Leads Google Expedition to Create Technology For 'internet of Things'
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Google are collaborating to turn the college campus into a living laboratory.
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The Icy Mountains of Pluto
New close-up images of a region near Pluto's equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the...
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Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The 'canadian Mafia' Behind Tech's Latest Craze
In the late '90s, Tomi Poutanen, a precocious computer whiz from Finland, hoped to do his dissertation on neural networks, a scientific method aimed at teaching...
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Where Do Most of the Internet Users Live?
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute have updated their 2011 visualization of Internet users around the world, using 2013 data from the World Bank.
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Can the Apple Watch Enhance Student Achievement?
Pennsylvania State University researchers will test how the Apple Watch can enhance student achievement via self-regulation and learning strategy.
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Virtual Medical Training: Don’t Call It Virtual Reality
Medical professionals prefer to reference the technology with terms that are "less sci-fi."
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Nasa's Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto.
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