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Touchscreen Merges the Real and Digital Worlds
For all the advances in table-top and tablet computing, some design professionals will always prefer the feel of pen on paper to stylus on glass. A new device could...
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Grid Computing and the Future of Cloud Computing
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the idea of grid computing, a type of distributed computing that harnesses the power of many computers to handle large computational...
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Picture-Driven Computing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed Sikuli, a system that enables computer users to write programs using screen shots of graphical...
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R&d Partnership to sher in Era of Petascale Computing in Singapore
Fujistu and the Institute of High Performance Computing at Singapore's Agency for Science Technology and Research have announced a joint research and development...
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Slime Design Mimics Tokyo's Rail System
Hokkaido University researchers, working with colleagues in the United Kingdom and Japan, recently completed a study suggesting that a fungus-like mold might be...
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Tech Volunteers Aiding Haiti Relief Efforts
Software developers and tech-savvy individuals from around the world are organizing to help with the Haiti relief effort. Projects already underway include the...
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Data at the End of the Tunnel
Scientists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and French research facility CNRS have made advances in the development of tunnel magnetoresistance-based memory.
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Ict Research to Boost India Socio-Economic Development
William Thies and other scientists at Microsoft Research India have created technologies specifically designed to facilitate socio-economic development, spanning...
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Industry Says Gov't Must Regulate 'cloud' to Protect User Privacy
The federal government needs to address electronic security to calm Americans' uncertainty about cloud computing and secure its privacy, according to industry representatives...
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Supercomputer Flexibility Increased By Virtualized Operating System
New work on Sandia National Laboratories’ Red Storm supercomputer — the 17th fastest in the world — is helping to make supercomputers more accessible, in effect...
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Watching Crystals Grow May Lead to Faster Electronic Devices
The quest for faster electronic devices recently got something more than a little bump up in technological knowhow. Scientists at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)...
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If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It Hackme
Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was “12345.” Today, it’s one digit longer but hardly safer: “123456.” Despite all the reports...
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Cmu, Intel Collaborate to Improve Energy Costs and Efficiency in Chip Making
Researchers at Intel and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a new class of materials called solder magnetic nanocomposites, which could help streamline...
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Security Experts Poke Theoretical Holes in 3g Encryption
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers recently created a theoretical attack capable of breaking the encryption protocol that is planned for use on 3G telephony...
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Tech Volunteers Build New Tools to Aid Haiti Relief Efforts
Techies are gathering in person and online to collaborate on the development of new systems to support rescuers and relief workers on the ground in Haiti, and to...
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Willow Garage to Give Away Personal Robots
Willow Garage unveiled its PR2 Beta robot last week, and announced to research institutions around the world that they can apply to have one at no cost.
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Making Braille Music niversally Accessible
Blind musicians have had restricted access to scores due to the scarcity and limitations of Braille transcriptions. A new European system makes music for the blind...
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Cybersecurity Expert Stays Creative Baking Bread
Is there a recipe a scientist might follow to spur creativity and cook up new discoveries? Cyber security expert Kevin Fu of the University of Massachusetts Amherst...
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Web Access Is New Clinton Doctrine
The U.S. plans to make unrestricted access to the Internet a top foreign-policy priority, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to announce Thursday (January...
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