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'berlin' Is Revealed as Kryptos Clue
"Berlin" is the highly anticipated clue from artist Jim Sanborn that’s meant to help crypto sleuths unlock the cipher to his enigmatic Kryptos sculpture. The...
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World's First Ice Touchscreen Virtually Burns
Nokia researchers have built a computer touchscreen using a block of ice. The researchers say the screen is a step toward a world in which all sorts of surfaces...
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AT&T ps the Ante in Speech Recognition
AT&T says it has devised technologies to boost the accuracy of speech and language recognition technology as well as extend voice activation to other modes of communication...
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How Wise Are Crowds?
By melding economics and engineering, researchers show that as social networks get larger, they usually get better at sorting fact from fiction.
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Insurers Test Data Profiles to Identify Risky Clients
Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people's longevity.
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Worm Can Deal Double Blow to Nuclear Program
The German software engineer who in September was the first to report that a computer worm was apparently designed to sabotage targets in Iran said Friday that...
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Code Clues Point to Stuxnet Maker
Detailed analysis of the code in the Stuxnet worm has narrowed the list of suspects who could have created it.
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Ecs Research Helps to 'fix the Web'
Citizens Online's new Fix the Web campaign is designed to address the problem of inaccessible websites by providing a quick and easy way for users to complain about...
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Israeli Researchers Pursue Brain-Operated Computing
Tel Aviv University is developing an electronic component that can read signals from nerve cells and transmit them to a computer. Researchers hope to develop a...
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What If We sed Poetry to Teach Computers to Speak Better?
A better understanding of how people use acoustic cues to stress new information and put old information in the background may help computer programmers produce...
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A Minority Report Interface For the Rest of S
Two programmers have developed Toscanini, a free gestural computer interface that provides a connection between a user's movements and digital instruments such...
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Uic Researchers Paint on 20-Foot Electronic Canvas
The University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory maintains a video display wall with a resolution of 8,160 by 2,304 pixels. Recently...
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Army Avatars Join the Battle For Hearts and Minds
Researchers at the University of Southern California are developing realistic, immersive virtual-reality programs for the U.S. military in which the soldiers are...
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Cameras to Catch Terrorists Triple in New York With Bomb Plots
New York City is almost halfway to its goal of installing 3,000 cameras as part of a network to monitor signs of terrorism, about triple the number it had in...
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Future Soldiers May Be Wearing 'iron Man' Suits
A lunchtime crowd is gathering beside the parking lot at Raytheon Sarcos, the defense contractor, on a recent day in Salt Lake City. White-collar workers from...
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Part Moth, Part Machine: Cyborgs Are on the Move
Researchers are developing methods to produce complex behavior from robots by tapping into the nervous system of living organisms and using algorithms that already...
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Web Developers Tackle Advanced Font Controls
The Cascading Style Sheets Web formatting standard is benefiting from new font technology, which is enabling developers to increasingly use a more polished look...
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At&t Prepares For the End to Iphone Exclusivity
The end of 2010 is close and it looks like AT&T is beefing up its device portfolio and app offerings for a day when it isn't the only U.S. operator offering the...
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Nsa: Our Development Methods Are in the Open Now
Despite its reputation for secrecy and technical expertise, the National Security Agency doesn't have a set of secret coding practices or testing methods that...
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