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Group Thinker: Researcher Gets $2.9 Million to Further Develop Swarm Intelligence
Swarm intelligence is a branch of artificial intelligence that attempts to get computers and robots to mimic the highly efficient behavior of colony insects such...
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How Google Ranks Tweets
To deliver useful search returns from the so-called real-time Web--such as seconds-old Twitter "tweets" reporting traffic jams--Google has adapted its page-ranking...
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Social Science Meets Computer Science at Yahoo
Yahoo Labs is hiring social scientists, including cognitive psychologists, economists, and ethnographers, to help it understand what motivates users to click and...
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Computer Programmed to Read Human Faces
Scientists have programmed computers to read human expressions and to tell whether one is in pain. "Each facial expression is made up of many different components...
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Now, Electronics That Obey Hand Gestures
The technology industry is going retro — moving away from remote controls, mice and joysticks to something that arrives without batteries, wires or a user manual...
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Bringing Color to E-Readers
One of the hot topics at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas is color e-readers, with several companies showcasing new products. While E-Ink has...
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Binary Body Double: Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal for Xbox 360
When Nintendo's Wii game console debuted in November 2006, its motion-sensing handheld "Wiimotes" got players off the couch and onto their feet. Now Microsoft...
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Are Doctors Ready for Virtual Visits?
For over a decade now, health care experts have been promoting telemedicine, or the use of satellite technology, video conferencing and data transfer through phones...
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How Vegas Security Drives Surveillance Tech Everywhere
Las Vegas casinos are incubators of the world's most advanced surveillance tech. Here's how the spy gear that helps Sin City has taught everyone from government...
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Rogue Marketers Can Mine Your Info on Facebook
Got an e-mail list of customers or readers and want to know more about each — such as their full name, friends, gender, age, interests, location, job and education...
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Microsoft's Body-Sensing, Button-Busting Controller
A LONG-lived videogaming skill could be on the way out this year as Microsoft hones an add-on to its Xbox 360 console aimed at making button-studded games controllers...
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Computers Guide Traffic Lights to Reduce Congestion For Commuters, Other Drivers
There probably are just two times when you think about a traffic light. When one just turned yellow. ("Can I make it?") When one has been red for too long. ("Come...
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Despite Risks, Internet Creeps Onto Car Dashboards
LAS VEGAS — To the dismay of safety advocates already worried about driver distraction, automakers and high-tech companies have found a new place to put sophisticated...
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Trading Shares in Milliseconds
Today's stock market has become a world of automated transactions executed at lightning speed. This high-frequency trading could make the financial system more...
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Obama to Name Chief of Cybersecurity
Nearly seven months after highlighting the vulnerability of banking, energy and communications systems to Internet attacks, the White House on Tuesday is expected...
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Cyber Challenge Tests Nation's Top Hackers
With the coolness of a card shark at the final table of the World Series of Poker, Matt Bergin pulls the hood of his brown sweatshirt over his head and concentrates...
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Real-Time Action in a Virtual World
A new digital system developed by the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley enables people in different locations to interact in real...
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Learning to Love to Hate Robots
Several studies have recently been conducted to determine how humans and robots interact and how to improve the human-robot relationship. For example, a Carnegie...
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Handheld Touch Screen Device May Lead to Mobile Fingerprint Id
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed software for a handheld touch-screen device that identifies fingerprints and faces. A major...
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