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Blinding the Watchman
Internet constellations could thwart killer asteroid discovery algorithms.
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Facebook Grapples With Privacy Issues
A backlash over Facebook Inc.'s privacy practices has triggered disagreement inside the company that could force Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to scale back efforts...
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James Bond-Style Tech Ready For Emergencies
Instantly deployable James Bond-style information and communication technologies are now available to coordinate disaster response among diverse agencies and NGOs...
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Breaking the Logjam: Improving Data Download From Outer Space
Space satellites face a data logjam because their increasingly powerful sensors produce more information than their bandwidth can easily transmit. Experiments indicate...
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Minding the Gap: A Look at the Divide Between the Sciences and the Humanities
In the past 50 years, universities have often sought to bridge the divide described in 1959 by noted scientist and novelist C.P. Snow in his Rede Lecture at the...
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Software Tool Helps Tap Into The Power Of Graphics Processing
A research team from North Carolina State University has developed software that could make it easier for traditional software programs to take advantage of powerful...
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'digital Genome' Safeguards Dying Data Formats
European researchers have deposited a "digital genome" time capsule inside a data storage facility known as the Swiss Fort Knox, which contains a blueprint that...
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Hp Researchers Say Manure Could Help Power Data Centers
Hewlett-Packard researchers have proposed a biogas recovery system that converts livestock waste into methane, which can be used as fuel to generate electricity...
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Engineer Says Robotics Can Use a Woman's Touch
Texas A&M at College Station computer science professor Robin Murphy creates rescue robots designed to slither through collapsed buildings, fly over wildfires,...
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Teaching Robots Some Manners
People are more likely to adapt to and use robots if they behave more like humans, even if that means they operate less efficiently.
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Virtual Reality sed to Transfer Men's Minds Into a Woman's Body
Barcelona University scientists recently conducted an experiment in which they used virtual reality to transfer men's minds into a woman's body.
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Giving New Meaning to 'smart Car'
McMaster University computer and software engineers are studying how one IBM multicore processor can be used to connect a vehicle's automotive systems.
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As Attention Wanders, Rethinking the Autopilot
A captain returned to the cockpit after taking a bathroom break and found the first officer facing away from the instruments and talking to a flight attendant....
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Software that Learns By Watching
Overworked and much in demand, IT support staff can't be in two places at once. But software designed to watch and learn as they carry out common tasks could soon...
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Illinois Institute of Technology to Provide Apple Ipads to ndergraduates
Illinois Institute of Technology will provide all incoming, first-year undergrads with Apple iPads as part of an initiative to integrate new technologies into the...
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Nanotech Microlens Could Lead to Better Infrared Satellite Imaging Technology
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a nanotech "microlens" that uses gold to boost the strength of infrared imaging and could lead...
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Fantastic Journey to Next-Generation Virtual Reality Cave
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received a grant to develop the "next-generation" CAVE virtual environment, a 3-D research tool for use...
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Advancing the Nuclear Enterprise Through Better Computing
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are merging decades of nuclear energy and safety expertise with high-performance computing to effectively address a...
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Duke to Shut senet Server, A Piece of Internet History
Duke University this week will shut down its Usenet server, which provides access to a worldwide electronic discussion network of newsgroups started in 1979 by...
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Machines That Learn Better
New mathematics will make it much easier to build machine-learning systems that tackle a wider range of problems.
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