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Buy Now or Wait For a Sale? Let the Computer Decide
Microsoft researchers have developed Prodcast, a tool that helps consumers decide whether to buy a new product now or wait for prices to fall.
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Mining Social Networks to Predict Your App Choices
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab have analyzed the smartphone use of students on social networks in an attempt to determine...
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Protecting Protestors With Photos That Never Existed
In a response to protestors getting arrested for taking pictures of government-instigated violence, researchers have developed a method that uses graphics processors...
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Interview with Key Lulzsec Hacker
It was early May when LulzSec's profile skyrocketed after a hack on the giant Sony corporation. LulzSec's name comes from Lulz, a corruption of LOL, often denoting...
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Autopiloted Glider Knows Where to Fly For a Free Ride
Hawks and albatrosses soar for hours or even days without having to land. Soon robotic gliders could go one better, soaring on winds and thermals indefinitely...
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The Defenders: Inside an Online Siege
In a quiet, windowless auditorium in Bristol, in the west of England, Lucy Robson and her team hunch over their laptops as the seconds on a giant clock above...
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Intel Anthropologist: Fieldwork with the Silicon Tribe
Anthropologist Genevieve Bell gives the chip maker insight into how people experience new technologies.
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Earthquake? Terrorist Bomb? Call in the AI
Durham University researchers are developing a training simulation system designed to help emergency services workers adapt to chaotic situations. The system takes...
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Amusement Park Rides that Know When You're Scared
What would it feel like to ride on a roller-coaster that reacts to your emotional state? Visitors to amusement parks may soon be able to find out.
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Covert Hard Drive Fragmentation Embeds a Spy's Secrets
Good news for spies. There is now a way to hide data on a hard drive without using encryption. Instead of using a cipher to scramble text, the method involves...
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The Search Engine That Predicts What You Want
In the future the news will find you—at least according to Futureful, a Finnish startup building a predictive discovery iPad app that will deliver personalised...
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Evolutionary Babel Was in Southern Africa
Where did humanity utter its first words? A new linguistic analysis attempts to rewrite the story of Babel by borrowing from the methods of genetic analysis—and...
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Airborne Radar Will Map the Ground in 3D
Aircraft radar will be capable of mapping landscapes and buildings in three dimensions (3D), making it easier to spot partly hidden objects on the ground, using...
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Internet Probe Can Track You Down to Within 690 Metres
Online adverts could soon start stalking you. A new way of working out where you are by looking at your internet connection could pin down your current location...
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Flying Robots Team p to Juggle
Our flying robot overlords seem to have a fun side after all. In this video, watch two quadrocopters team up to skillfully juggle a ball, thanks to software developed...
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Surveillance Robots Know When to Hide
The spy approaches the target building under cover of darkness, taking a zigzag path to avoid well-lit areas and sentries. He selects a handy vantage point next...
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AI Lie Detection Could Help Crack Terror Cells
In A bar in Maastricht University in the Netherlands, 12 students are each given an envelope marked "Top Secret." Inside are plans for a terror attack somewhere...
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Invisible Wi-Fi Signals Caught on Camera
Computer icons can give you an idea of your Wi-Fi signal strength. But now Timo Arnall and a team of designers from the Oslo School of Architecture & Design have...
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Will Goal-Line Technology Bring Justice to Soccer?
A sporting miscarriage of justice that occurred last summer triggered a series of experiments that could this weekend see soccer (that's football to the rest...
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