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Python-Based Compiler Achieves Performance Speedups
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Finding Could Help Electronics Industry Enter New Phase
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have made a discovery that could lead to smaller, faster, more powerful, and more...
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Researchers Ready Personal Energy Monitoring Devices
Embedded data mining, inertial sensors, and global positioning systems are used in a wireless device being developed to monitor the amount of energy a person consumes...
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Beating the Bullies: Changing Real-World Behavior Through Virtual Experience
Social problems like bullying and stereotyping involve thoughts, feelings and reactions that resist change. New research shows that when students play active roles...
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Twitter Message Could Be Cyber Criminal at Work
Cyber criminals are setting snares that move at the speed of news. Panda Security, a Spain-based antivirus maker, has been monitoring an onslaught of links with...
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Neural Networks That Replicate Biological Brains
Imperial College London professor of cognitive robotics Murray Shanahan is using graphics processing technology originally developed for the gaming industry to...
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Futurephile: Knowledge Embedded in Everything
The day will come when everyone will wear glasses with a computer overlay capable of processing the faces of passersby and tell wearers if they have met someone...
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Better Games Through Long-Distance Networking
University of Melbourne researcher Florian Mueller was awarded this year's Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship in Technology for his research into video games that...
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Carnegie Mellon Java Tools Employ Human-Centered Design Techniques
Carnegie Mellon NewsCarnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers have developed Jadeite and Apatite, two tools designed to help programmers choose between the thousands...
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Hybrid System of Human-Machine Interaction
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) scientists have developed Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI), a hybrid system capable of examining real-time interactions between...
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New Exotic Material Could Revolutionize Electronics
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have discovered that the compound bismuth telluride acts...
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Synthetic Cells Get Together to Make Electronics
University of Oxford chemists, working with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, have built a network of artificial cells that acts like an...
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Administration Plans to Scale Back Real Id Law
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is calling on lawmakers to change the Real ID Act to make it more palatable to states. Eleven states have refused...
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Writing on Air Is Not Pie in the Sky
Duke University engineering students have developed the PhonePoint Pen, a program that uses the accelerometers in smart phones to enable users to write messages...
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Isuppli: Gear Costs to Derail Moore's Law in 2014
Market research firm ISuppli predicts Moore's Law will end after 2014 due to the high cost of chip manufacturing equipment. The market research firm expects advances...
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E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress
A National Security Agency (NSA) operation involving surveillance of American residents' communications, especially domestic email, is fueling debate in the U.S...
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China Backpedals on Filtering Software Order
China has backed down on its mandate that all personal computers sold within its borders come with pre-installed Internet-filtering software. The software, called...
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Spintronic
European researchers have developed novel concept devices called spintronic devices using ferromagnetic semiconductors.
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Scientists Create Hybrid System of Human-Machine Interaction
In a groundbreaking study, scientists at FAU have created a "hybrid" system to examine real-time interactions between humans and machines (virtual partners). By...
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Cheerleader For New Domain Names Defends Icann Plan
A pair of recently released reports, authored by University of Chicago professor Dennis Carlton, says that introducing new top-level domains (TLDs) will not force...
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