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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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Twitter Hashtags Predict Rising Tension in Egypt
The Political Polarization Index uses Twitter to measure political tension in Egypt.
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Foursquare Check-Ins Tell Stores Where to Set Up Shop
A recent study on the use of social media was designed to help retailers find the best locations for new stores.
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Twitter Tracker Shows Where Food Poisoning Is a Risk
A new machine-learning system can track tweets and show which restaurants are giving people food poisoning.
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Kindergarten Coders Can Program Before They Can Read
Researchers are studying the ability of kindergarten-aged children to program computers using a graphics-based coding language called ScratchJr.
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To Create a Robot With Common Sense, Mimic a Toddler
A new robot is being designed to mimic the common sense of a three-year-old.
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Submarine Internet Cables Are a Gift For Spooks
It's a golden age for spying. The subsea fibre-optic cables that carry telephone and Internet traffic are a technological marvel—and a gift to intelligence agencies...
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Graffiti Codes Let You Surf With a Wave of Your Phone
Researchers want to enable people to create quick response (QR) codes on the spot, like graffiti.
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Robot Arm Wrapped in Sensitive Skin Has Gentle Touch
Researchers have developed a robot arm that navigates by using the sense of touch, rather than trying to avoid bumping into people and objects.
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Parcels Find Their Way to You Via the Crowd
A potential crowd-powered delivery system called TwedEx would deliver packages to consumers without requiring them to deviate from normal routes.
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AI Card Game Knows How to Bend the Rules
A new artificial intelligence system generates new card games from scratch.
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Crowd Diagnosis Could Spot Rare Diseases Doctors Miss
A new Web-based tool uses crowdsourcing techniques to help solve difficult medical cases.
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Virtual Traveller: Beam a Live, 3D You Into the World
A new virtual reality system combines 3D glasses and a hack of Microsoft's Kinect to enable life-sized images of people to be recreated in a virtual space.
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Wireless Smart Meter Measures How Much Power You Use
An inexpensive wireless device can monitor the power consumption of home appliances.
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Software Uses Linkedin Network to Guide Your Career
New software provides career guidance based on the profiles of LinkedIn users.
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How to Find the Right Twitter User in a Crisis
Researchers have developed a way to find people on Twitter who are tweeting useful information during a crisis.
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Curiosity's Discoveries Hint at Life's Cradle on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has found what it was looking for in its very first taste of Martian rock—much to everyone's surprise.
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China's Next-Generation Internet Is a World-Beater
China is developing a next-generation national Internet that reportedly is on a larger scale than anything being developed in the West.
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The Father of All Men Is 340,000 Years Old
Albert Perry carried a secret in his DNA: a Y chromosome so distinctive that it reveals new information about the origin of our species.
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Happy, Snappy Tweets Gain the Most Twitter Followers
The content of tweets, rather than a followers list, that has the biggest impact on the size of a Twitter audience, researchers have found.
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