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Phone App Could Keep an Eye on Your Ride
Intel researchers are working on a project that connects the electronics inside a car to the Internet, so that mobile applications can provide a car owner with...
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The Army's Bold Plan to Turn Soldiers Into Telepaths
The U.S. Army wants to allow soldiers to communicate just by thinking. ?The new science of synthetic telepathy could soon make that happen.
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Colleges Join Plan For Faster Computer Networks
A coalition of 29 American universities is throwing its weight behind a plan to build ultra-high-speed computer networks—with Internet service several hundred...
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Blatter Signals Arrival of Goalline Technology
England's Premier League and any others who want to introduce goalline technology got the go-ahead to do so from FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Wednesday, as...
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Making Stuff with Molecular Precision
For more than a decade, scientists have been touting the promise of nanomaterials as a source of new and better products, from stronger structural materials to...
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Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have found that just 10 percent of a population is enough to sway the majority of a society.
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Crowdsourced Online Learning Gives Robots Human Skills
Roboticists at Brown University and other institutions are experimenting with using crowdsourcing to teach robots more general skills.
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Nature's Hidden Prime Number Code
Ever since humans evolved on this planet we have been trying to make sense of the world around us. We have attempted to explain why the world looks and behaves...
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How Engineers Create Artificial Sounds to Fool S
Hundreds of items have their acoustics deliberately tweaked to make us happy, according to Trevor Cox, professor of acoustic engineering at the University of...
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Can We Make Machines Listen More Carefully?
You probably use voice recognition technology already, if in a limited capacity. Maybe you use Google's voice-activated search, or take advantage of its (somewhat...
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Scientists Unveil Tools for Rewriting the Code of Life
MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that could be used to rewrite the genetic code of a living cell, allowing them to make large-scale edits...
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Codebook Shows an Encryption Form Dates Back to Telegraphs
If not for a computer scientist’s hobby of collecting old telegraph codebooks, a crucial chapter in modern cryptography might have been lost to history.
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Wolfram Research Introduces New Programmable Document Type
Wolfram Research says it has developed the Computable Document Format (CDF), a new document format that allows the person who creates a document to embed code,...
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Black Hat Pwnie Award Winner Will Be a Criminal
Law enforcement may be interested to see if anyone actually shows up to this year to accept the annual Pwnie Award for Epic Ownage at Black Hat, since all the nominees...
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Decoding Your Email Personality
Imagine, if you will, a young Mark Zuckerberg circa 2003, tapping out mail messages from his Harvard dorm room. It's a safe bet he never would have guessed that...
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Why Bitcoin Is Not As Anonymous As Most sers Think
People who use Bitcoin to ensure their purchases remain anonymous may want to reconsider their reliance on the online peer-to-peer currency, say researchers who...
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Computers Understand Hand-Waving Descriptions
A new gesture-based interface developed by the Hasso Plattner Institute's Christian Holz and Microsoft Research's Andy Wilson does not require users to memorize...
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Thousands of Security Cameras Capture New Yorkers Every Move Around City
At first glance, the guy in the white polo shirt and khaki pants looks like anybody else walking down Broadway.
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Social Media History Becomes a New Job Hurdle
Companies have long used criminal background checks, credit reports and even searches on Google and LinkedIn to probe the previous lives of prospective employees...
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