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Will Insect-Like Flying Machines Revolutionize Surveillance?
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Will Insect-Like Flying Machines Revolutionize Surveillance?

Research at the University of Oxford is playing a key role in the development of revolutionary insect-sized vehicles with micro-cameras, suitable for different...

'Fluid Cloak' to Help Submarines Leave No Wake
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'Fluid Cloak' to Help Submarines Leave No Wake

Super-stealthy submarines may one day glide through the water without creating a wake, if a plan to channel fluid intelligently around objects can be made to...

Expert Hacks Car System, Says Problems Reach to Scada Systems
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Expert Hacks Car System, Says Problems Reach to Scada Systems

Researcher Don A. Bailey will be showing at the Black Hat security conference how easy it is to open and even start a car remotely by hacking the cellular network...

Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas
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Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have found that just 10 percent of a population is enough to sway the majority of a society. 

Wisebed: The First Pan-European Sensor Network Open to the Scientific Community
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Wisebed: The First Pan-European Sensor Network Open to the Scientific Community

The European Wisebed laboratory project, a collaboration between universities and research centers in Germany, Greece, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United...

Crowdsourced Online Learning Gives Robots Human Skills
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Crowdsourced Online Learning Gives Robots Human Skills

Roboticists at Brown University and other institutions are experimenting with using crowdsourcing to teach robots more general skills.  

Nsf's New Shared Supercomputing Platform Goes to Extremes
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Nsf's New Shared Supercomputing Platform Goes to Extremes

The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, a distributed computing infrastructure that will connect...

Scientists Unveil Tools for Rewriting the Code of Life
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Scientists Unveil Tools for Rewriting the Code of Life

MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that could be used to rewrite the genetic code of a living cell, allowing them to make large-scale edits...

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Ibm Speeds Storage With Flash: 10b Files in 43 Minutes

IBM researchers have created a data storage system that can scan 10 billion files in 43 minutes, using flash memory to store the metadata, which the storage system...

Hint of Higgs, but Little More
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Hint of Higgs, but Little More

When its experiments started in earnest earlier this year, many scientists hoped that the world's most powerful collider would turn up new particles, additional...

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Decoding Your Email Personality

Imagine, if you will, a young Mark Zuckerberg circa 2003, tapping out mail messages from his Harvard dorm room. It's a safe bet he never would have guessed that...

The Importance Of Analyzing Social Intelligence
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The Importance Of Analyzing Social Intelligence

Huge amounts of data emanating from Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites, which is known collectively as “social intelligence, ” is being gathered...

Computer Program Could 'revolutionize the World's Healthcare'
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Computer Program Could 'revolutionize the World's Healthcare'

The University of Manchester and a group of more than 25 academic institutions and industrial partners are collaborating on IT Future of Medicine, a 10-year project...

Caltech Researchers Create the First Artificial Neural Network Out of Dna
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Caltech Researchers Create the First Artificial Neural Network Out of Dna

Caltech researchers have developed an artificial neural network out of DNA, creating a circuit of interacting molecules that can recall memories based on incomplete...

Thousands of Security Cameras Capture New Yorkers Every Move Around City
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Thousands of Security Cameras Capture New Yorkers Every Move Around City

At first glance, the guy in the white polo shirt and khaki pants looks like anybody else walking down Broadway.

DARPA Seeks to Learn From Social For Warfare
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DARPA Seeks to Learn From Social For Warfare

The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency has launched the Social Media in Strategic Communication program, which aims to develop...

Robots Use Kinect to Understand Our World
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Robots Use Kinect to Understand Our World

Cornell University researchers are teaching robots to understand the context of their surroundings so that they can pick out individual objects in a room. 

Discovery May Overcome Obstacle For Quantum Computing: Ubc, California Researchers
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Discovery May Overcome Obstacle For Quantum Computing: Ubc, California Researchers

Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of California, Santa Barbara say they have made a major advance in predicting and eliminating...

Ibm's Watson Breaks New Ground in Artificial Intelligence
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Ibm's Watson Breaks New Ground in Artificial Intelligence

One of the major challenges that the computer science industry has been facing is the development of a machine that can answer unmodified human questions. 

Fewer Verbs and Nouns in Financial Reporting Could Predict Stock Market Bubble, Study Shows
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Fewer Verbs and Nouns in Financial Reporting Could Predict Stock Market Bubble, Study Shows

University College Dublin researchers say the stock market can be predicted by the way financial commentators describe market activity. 
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