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Darpa Wants Software That Adapts, Lasts Over 100 Years
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a project to develop software systems that can adapt and survive for more than 100 years.
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DARPA Accelerates ltimate Automated Pilot Software
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded its first contracts to vendors to build an automated system designed to reduce pilot fatigue.
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Can Drones Hunt With Wolf Pack-Like Success? DARPA Thinks So
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to enable groups of drones to operate collaboratively under the supervision of a single human commander...
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10 Cool Network and Computing Research Projects
If you think the latest enterprise and consumer network and computer technologies rolling into your data center and being snuck into your offices by end users are...
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What Advanced Tech Will Dominate Your Car By 2025? IBM Knows
An IBM study on the future of automotive technologies found self-healing cars and connections to the Internet of Things are the wave of the future.
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U.s. Intelligence Wants High-Tech Access to the Most Prodigious Sensor of All: Humans
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is doing research for its Future Applications of Sense Technology for Fidelitous Wearable Devices program...
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Wellesley College Researchers Seek the Truth via Twitter Trails
Researchers at Wellesley College in Massachusetts have developed a tool that examines how true and false stories propagate on Twitter.
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Researchers' New App Outs Iphone and Android Phone Energy Hogs
New, free iOS and Android software identifies which apps drain the most power from device batteries.
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Hacking Traffic Lights With a Laptop Is Easy
Security researchers with permission from local road authorities hacked into nearly 100 wirelessly networked traffic lights and were able to change the lights on...
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A Major Mystery Behind Microsoft's 'brain-Like' Speech-to-Speech Translator
New speech-to-speech translation technology from Microsoft becomes better at learning a language as it learns additional languages.
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MIT Researchers Bring Javascript to Google Glass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed WearScript, a Javascript environment that runs on Google Glass.
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Artificial Intelligence Challenge: Could a Robot Give Its Own Ted Talk?
The TED organization has partnered with X Prize to develop a competition to have an AI-based robot "deliver a compelling TED Talk with no human involvement."
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Microsoft Can Make the Walls of Your Room Display Web Pages
SurroundWeb is a prototype system for displaying Web pages on multiple projectors to display information on the walls of a room.
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Researchers Dare AI Experts to Crack New Gotcha Password Scheme
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed GOTCHA, Generating panOptic Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, a password system based on visual...
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Crowd-Funding Is Working For Open Source Projects
The company behind the LiveCode development tool has used crowd-funding to raise the money it needs (and more) to create an open source edition of its software. ...
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Ibm: In the Next 5 Years Computers Will Learn, Mimic the Human Senses
A new generation of machines that learn, adapt, sense, and experience the world as humans do through the five basic senses is one of the technologies highlighted...
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Java Inventor James Gosling Building Smart Marine Robots
Java inventor James Gosling is using Java's security framework to design marine robots that can be sent across the ocean to gather weather data or carry out research...
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Microsoft Researcher: Passwords Aren't Dead But They Need Fixing
Password use needs an overhaul that is driven by understanding the damage that can be done when password security is compromised, and researchers need to quantify...
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How to Get Your Kid Into an Elite Computer Science Program
Robotics competitions, programming skills tip the scales for college applicants; being a girl helps.
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