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AI Will Augment SEO
Adding artificial intelligence to search engines enables enhanced Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.
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Apple Patent ses 3d Gestures to Control an Ipad
Forget relying solely on touch to control your Apple device. On future iPads, you may be able to control your tablet from across the room using 3D gestures, such...
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How to Hatch a Dinosaur
People have told Jack Horner he’s crazy before, but he has always turned out to be right.
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How Microsoft Researchers Might Invent a Holodeck
Microsoft researcher Scott Saponas is developing Skinput, a bracelet of wearable electrodes that can sense how the user is moving their hand and fingers, transmitting...
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How Microsoft Researchers Might Invent a Holodeck
Deep inside Microsoft is the brain of a mad scientist.
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DARPA Searches For Life
There’s a hidden clock that underlies every process of every living thing—from when our cells start dividing to how quickly we age. Researchers at Darpa, the...
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Google Search Patterns Could Track Mrsa Spread
Google searches might enable public health experts to better fight drug-resistant staph infections, according to the University of Chicago's Diane Lauderdale.
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Attack Code for SCADA Vulnerabilities Released Online
The security of critical infrastructure is in the spotlight again this week after a researcher released attack code that can exploit several vulnerabilities found...
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Dissecting the Physics of Basketball Bank Shots
Here’s the scenario: You’re a college basketball player and your team is down by one. You’ve got a trip to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament on the line, but...
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The Secret World of Printing Concept Cars in 3D
The work that goes into building a physical model of a concept car is usually hidden behind closed doors, known only to engineers sworn to secrecy and similarly...
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Pentagon
In the past three years, America’s military and intelligence agencies have spent more than $125 million on computer models that are supposed to forecast political...
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Twitter Can Predict the Stock Market
The emotional roller coaster captured on Twitter can predict the ups and downs of the stock market, a new study finds. Measuring how calm the Twitterverse is...
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Pentagon Bomb Squad Backs Super Snipers, Mini-Bots, Secret Spy Tech
"Devil Pup" robots. Super sniper scopes. Secret signals intelligence sensors. Flying spies to find buried threats. Campaigns to influence the media behind the...
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.s. Escalates Air War Over Afghanistan
There may not be quite as many bombs falling from the sky. But don’t let that fool you. The United States has dramatically escalated its air war over Afghanistan...
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Nfl Considers Ball-Tracking Chips For Accuracy
From end zone to end zone, an NFL field is exactly 3,600 inches, and it’s easy enough for referees to spot a ball precisely when action stays within the bounds...
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How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010
For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the world. Her objective:...
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Nsa Gets Geeky After Dark, New Docs Show
It's an agency staffed by some of the government's top hackers, brainiest cryptographers, and most sophisticated network defenders. But when employees at the NSA...
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Oil Spill on Track to Reach Atlantic No Later Than October
Oil gushing from the Deepwater Horizon site in the Gulf of Mexico will reach the Atlantic Ocean within six months, says oceanographer Synte Peacock. Exactly when...
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Microsoft Attempts to Predict the Future
Don’t worry about Microsoft trying to follow your every move. The company probably already knows what you will do next.
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Swarm of Micro-Helicopters Could Create a Giant 3-D Display
Mechanical fireflies could help create a new kind of 3-D display, say researchers at MIT. Standing in for the bioluminescent beetles will be LED-fitted, remotely...
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