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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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3-D Gesture-Based Interaction System nveiled
Fraunhofer FIT has developed a next generation touch system that enables users to interact with objects on a display without making physical contact.
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Predicting Success With Niwa Supercomputer
New Zealand's National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research has launched the most powerful computer in the southern hemisphere. The new supercomputer can...
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Where Will All This Oil Be in August?
As government officials continue to nervously monitor the cap on the Deepwater Horizon well, there are still millions of barrels of oil oozing around in the Gulf...
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Working to Make Combat Soldiers' Lives Easier
In combat, things can be so chaotic and loud that soldiers sometimes aren't even aware they're being shot at.
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A Trip Beyond the Edge of the Observable Universe
If you want to see what outer space looks like, there may be no better way to do so than to have Carter Emmart take you on a ride there.
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Researchers Create Sounds of Animated Things Breaking
A delicate wine glass shatters on the floor. A rock is thrown through a window. A child smashes his piggy bank. Dramatic moments like these in an animated movie...
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Cutting-Edge Medical Imaging System Will Employ Night Vision Technology
UTHealth has reached an agreement with other institutions that will allow it to take the next step in commercially developing an innovative medical imaging system...
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Taking Computer Games Into the Future
Computing experts from the University of Essex, Imperial College, and the University of Bradford are working to make artificial intelligence smarter, which will...
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Video Game Processors Help Lower Ct Scan Radiation
A new approach to processing X-ray data could lower by a factor of ten or more the amount of radiation patients receive during cone beam CT scans, report researchers...
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Stony Brook University Receives Nsf Grant to Design 'holodeck'
Stony Brook University received a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant to build what its creator described as the closest thing in the world to Star Trek's...
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nique Thz 'fingerprints' Will Identify Hidden Explosives from a Distance
A breakthrough in remote wave sensing by a team from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute opens the way for detecting hidden explosives, chemical or biological agents...
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Google's Do-It-Yourself App Creation Software
Google is bringing Android software development to the masses. The company will offer a software tool, starting Monday, that is intended to make it easy for people...
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Shrewd Search Engines Know What You Want
For better or worse, search engines have become the gateway to the Web. They help users to find information, advertisers to sell products—they even help hackers...
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Techmeme Offers Tech News at Internet Speed
One of the first Web sites loaded on Silicon Valley’s laptops and iPhones each morning—and then again and again throughout the day—is Techmeme.
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A Turning Point For Genetic Testing
In a prelude to overhauling its regulatory oversight of genetic diagnostic testing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will convene a public meeting next week...
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Crunching Cancer With Numbers
When Danny Hillis spent a day watching a top surgeon perform keyhole cancer surgery, he was left both exhilarated and depressed. The clinical precision with which...
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Woven Electronics
ETH Zurich researchers have developed intelligent textiles that have electronic components such as sensors and conductive filaments woven into the fabric.
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Google's Do-It-Yourself App Creation Software
Google is offering software designed to make it simple for users to create their own applications for Android smartphones. The free software has been under development...
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Computer Technology Helps Doctors Target Underserved Patients
Multimedia talking touchscreens, housed in computer kiosks at clinics and hospitals, are helping researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine...
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