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The Rover's All Right
Oregon State University students are building the Oregon State Wireless Active Learning Device, a remote-controlled Mars rover that features an extendable arm...
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Analyze Multimedia Content
The media produce a glut of material daily. Refining that ore into the gold of useful information requires new approaches. European researchers have now made automated...
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Amd and Bgca to Offer Game Technology Program to Hundreds of Youth
The AMD Foundation has awarded a $115,000 grant to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to implement Club Tech: Game Tech, a digital game development program, in...
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Japanese Couple First in the World to Be Wed By a Robot
A Japanese professor of robotics and his bride were the first couple in the world officially wed by a robot.
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Computers Could Make Better Drugs
Using the NSF-funded Ranger supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin professor Pengyu Ren is working to develop faster...
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Technology Linked to Happiness, Study Claims
A recent Chartered Institute for IT worldwide survey found there are positive links between access to technology and feelings of well-being. Access to communication...
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Nasa Looking to Six-Legged Robot to Build Human Outpost on Mars
NASA is developing a six-legged robot called Athlete that can walk or roll on wheels, and ultimately aims to have it help set up a habitat on Mars for future astronauts...
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.s. Struggles to Ward Off Evolving Cyber Threat
U.S. Department of Defense official James Miller says authorities have failed to stay ahead of the cyberattacks, which have resulted in the loss of an enormous...
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Teachers Plan to Teach in 3d
Computer scientists at the universities of Hertfordshire and Southern Denmark are on track to finish building technology that would bring virtual reality to Europe's...
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'Tamper Evident' CPU Warns of Malicious Backdoors
Columbia University scientists have developed a chip design that prevents microprocessors from being equipped with malicious backdoors that could be used to steal...
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Operation Reboot: It Professionals Become Computer Science Teachers
A three-year, Georgia Tech-sponsored program called Operation Reboot is helping 30 information technology professionals reenter the work force as high school computer...
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Evolution of Large-Scale Social Networks Focus of MSU Study
A team from Michigan State University will study how large-scale social networks such as YouTube and Wikipedia change as users come and go over time in order to...
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When Good Enough is Better
MIT researchers have developed a system that automatically finds parts of computer code where accuracy can be traded for significant increases in speed.
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W3c Launches Xproc Spec
The W3C has released XProc, an XML pipeline specification that "provides a standard framework for composing XML processes [and] streamlines the automation, sequencing...
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Legal Experts: LimeWire Likely Doomed
A federal court judge has likely dealt a death blow to LimeWire, one of the most popular and oldest file-sharing systems, according to legal experts.
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Can Social Networks Be Generated Automatically?
When Google launched Buzz, a microblogging social network, several months ago, the company boasted that the network had been generated automatically, by algorithms...
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Cellphones Now Used More For Data Than For Calls
She taps out her grocery lists, records voice memos, listens to music at the gym, tracks her caloric intake and posts frequent updates to her Twitter and Facebook...
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Can Cameras and Software Replace Referees?
Tennis has adopted Hawk-Eye's line-calling technology with (mostly) open arms. Why are other sports resisting the more accurate, high-tech refs?
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Concerns as Sixth Foxconn Worker Commits Suicide
Foxconn Technology, the world's biggest contract maker of electronics, has been forced to answer allegations about the welfare of employees in China after its...
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