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Is Your Robot a Little Cheeky? Google May Build It That Way
Google is developing robots that have individual personalities.
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Fujitsu Develops Compact Rfid For Wearables, Metal
Fujitsu says its new radio frequency identification tag technology can work on surfaces such as metal, which can otherwise impede radio waves.
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Virginia Tech Researchers Devise Traffic App to Rival Weather Apps
Researchers are developing a cloud-based application that will use real-time information and historical data to predict when and where traffic is likely to occur...
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Dell's New Research Division Wants Computers to Detect Your Mood
Dell Research is conducting experiments to detect a person's mood, for use in computers involved with education and communications.
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Google Is Developing a Smart Contact Lens
Google researchers are developing a smart contact lens that uses tiny chips, sensors, and antennas to continuously test diabetics' blood sugar levels.
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Nasa Robots Blaze the Trail For Humans on Mars
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars rovers "are our eyes, our feet, our hands on the ground that inform us before we get there."
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By 2018, Cars Will Be Self-Aware
"Cars will become the first robot most of us experience in our lifetime," says Gartner analyst Thilo Koslowski.
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10 Hot It Skills For 2013
The demand for high-tech professionals continues to rise, as 33 percent of IT professionals in Computerworld's 2013 Forecast survey say they plan to hire more workers...
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Big Data Brings Big Academic Opportunities
Many colleges and universities are developing advanced degree programs in analytics to manage big data.
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Brain Drain: Where Cobol Systems Go From Here
A recent Computerworld survey of 357 IT professionals found that 46 percent of respondents are noticing a shortage of Cobol programmers, and 50 percent said the...
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Yahoo Working on Hadoop Mapreduce 2
The next generation of Apache Hadoop will likely be released this year, says Yahoo!'s Todd Papaioannou. Apache Hadoop enables batch processing of petabytes of...
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Intel Developing Security 'game-Changer'
Intel researchers are developing computer security technology that stop all zero-day attacks. "We're going to see a quantum jump in the ability of future devices...
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Green Grid Creates More Metrics For Energy Efficiency in Data Centers
The Green Grid consortium is developing two metrics to add to its power usage effectiveness metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centers. The new metrics...
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Despite Green Diet, Data Centers Still Gobble Power
Despite U.S. government warnings on exploding energy consumption, data centers are not getting more power-efficient.
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Multicore Requires Os Rework, Windows Architect Advises
The basic architecture of modern operating systems may need to be rethought in order to accommodate multicore processors, according to a recent presentation at...
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Australia Builds Secret Database to Fight Cyber-Terrorism
Australia's federal government has been given sensitive data from utilities, banks, and other organizations for the Critical Infrastructure Protection Modeling...
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White House Calls for IT Boost to Fight Terrorism
A new White House report says the U.S. government needs better information technology (IT) to counter potential terrorist attacks, such as the recent attempt to...
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Scientists, IT Community Await Exascale Computers
The information technology (IT) industry discussed the challenges it faces in developing exascale systems, a new generation of supercomputers that promise to be...
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22 Stories nderground: Iron Mountain's Experimental Room 48
Down a road that winds through the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, just across from a cow pasture, the bucolic scenery of Butler County is interrupted by...
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