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Dna Logic Gates Herald Injectable Computers
Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have developed DNA-based logic gates that could carry out calculations inside the body and may lead to injectable biocomputers...
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Augmented Reality Edges Closer to Mainstream
To an unenlightened observer, Ron Haidenger's demonstration of playing a video game by tilting a piece of cardboard back and forth looks more than a little bit...
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Privacy Worries Inspire a New Wave of Startups
Amid the recent public backlash to the way some of the titans of the Internet handle users' personal data, a slate of ambitious online startups are aiming to squeeze...
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Touch Is Not Enough, Say Display Experts
Experts in touch technologies recently gathered at the Society for Information Display conference to explore the future of touch and interactivity for computer...
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Trip to Mars: Will Stress & Fatigue Impact Performance?
A six-man international crew entered an isolation chamber in Moscow on Thursday (June 3) for a simulated 520-day mission to Mars.
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sing Neural Networks to Classify Music
University of Hong Kong students trained a convolutional neural network built for image recognition to classify music.
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Divorce Attorneys Catching Cheaters on Facebook
Before the explosion of social media, Ken Altshuler, a divorce lawyer in Maine, dug up dirt on his client's spouses the old-fashioned way: with private investigators...
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Detecting a Crime Before It Happens
U.S. government scientists at the Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency are immersed in research to see whether various high-tech devices can be exploited...
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The Ipad Pulse Reader Scales the Charts
Much has been made of the opportunity presented by Apple’s iPad to big media companies. But surprisingly, it is a $3.99 application created by two Stanford graduate...
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Video Game Accessibility Project to Help Blind Children Exercise
University of Nevada, Reno researchers have developed motion sensing-based tennis and bowling video games that use physical activity as input and might help visually...
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What Motivates Volunteer Computing Contributors? It Depends
Contributors to "volunteer computing" projects such as Wikipedia and Galaxy Zoo are motivated by enjoyment, the desire to 'do good,' to gain knowledge, or by the...
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Team Produces Procedure-Based Training Software For Robot-Assisted Surgery
Two scientists have paired up to develop procedure-based, hands-on surgical training software, which has the potential to revolutionize surgical training worldwide...
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Steve Jobs Predicts Tablets to Replace Personal Computers
The era of the personal computer is coming to an end and the tablet will take its place, Steve Jobs predicted at the All Things D Conference on Tuesday (June 1)...
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What Sites Such as Facebook and Google Know and Whom They Tell
When Disa Powell's husband and brother were badly burned in an electrical explosion while conducting maintenance at a Wal-Mart store and the family sued, the defense...
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Cellphone in New Role: Loyalty Card
Loyalty cards--those little paper cards that promise a free sandwich or coffee after 10 purchases, but instead get lost or forgotten--are going mobile.
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Spinoffs Reveal Earth Benefits of Nasa Technologies
Congressional staffers in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 20 were wondering why a robot was roaming the halls. Those who followed the robot were led to...
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Mobile Data: A Gold Mine For Telcos
Cell phone companies are finding that they're sitting on a gold mine--in the form of the call records of their subscribers.
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Apple Passes Microsoft as No. 1 in Tech
Wall Street has called the end of an era and the beginning of the next one: The most important technology product no longer sits on your desk but rather fits in...
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Mine Your Business
Researchers are developing new techniques to gauge employee productivity from information flow.
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