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What Advanced Tech Will Dominate Your Car By 2025? IBM Knows
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What Advanced Tech Will Dominate Your Car By 2025? IBM Knows

An IBM study on the future of automotive technologies found self-healing cars and connections to the Internet of Things are the wave of the future. 

U.s. Intelligence Wants High-Tech Access to the Most Prodigious Sensor of All: Humans
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U.s. Intelligence Wants High-Tech Access to the Most Prodigious Sensor of All: Humans

The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is doing research for its Future Applications of Sense Technology for Fidelitous Wearable Devices program...

DARPA Wants to Toughen-­p Wan Edge Networking, Security
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DARPA Wants to Toughen-­p Wan Edge Networking, Security

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to improve networking and security at the wide area network edge.

Wellesley College Researchers Seek the Truth via Twitter Trails
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Wellesley College Researchers Seek the Truth via Twitter Trails

Researchers at Wellesley College in Massachusetts have developed a tool that examines how true and false stories propagate on Twitter. 

Google Lets Connected Devices Commune Without Specialized Apps
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Google Lets Connected Devices Commune Without Specialized Apps

A new initiative by Google seeks to form an open standard for the Internet of Things, dubbed the Physical Web by the company's Chrome team. 

Researchers' New App Outs Iphone and Android Phone Energy Hogs
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Researchers' New App Outs Iphone and Android Phone Energy Hogs

New, free iOS and Android software identifies which apps drain the most power from device batteries. 

Hacking Traffic Lights With a Laptop Is Easy
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Hacking Traffic Lights With a Laptop Is Easy

Security researchers with permission from local road authorities hacked into nearly 100 wirelessly networked traffic lights and were able to change the lights on...

­.s. Intelligence Agency Wants Brain-Like Algorithms For Complex Information Processing
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­.s. Intelligence Agency Wants Brain-Like Algorithms For Complex Information Processing

The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to develop technology that will enable computers to think like humans. 

A Major Mystery Behind Microsoft's 'brain-Like' Speech-to-Speech Translator
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A Major Mystery Behind Microsoft's 'brain-Like' Speech-to-Speech Translator

New speech-to-speech translation technology from Microsoft becomes better at learning a language as it learns additional languages. 

MIT Researchers Bring Javascript to Google Glass
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MIT Researchers Bring Javascript to Google Glass

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed WearScript, a Javascript environment that runs on Google Glass. 

Artificial Intelligence Challenge: Could a Robot Give Its Own Ted Talk?
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Artificial Intelligence Challenge: Could a Robot Give Its Own Ted Talk?

The TED organization has partnered with X Prize to develop a competition to have an AI-based robot "deliver a compelling TED Talk with no human involvement." 

Open Source Project Builds Mobile Networks Without Big Carriers
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Open Source Project Builds Mobile Networks Without Big Carriers

Range Networks is working on an open source project that aims to shift mobile network creation from proprietary hardware to inexpensive commodity hardware. 

Microsoft Can Make the Walls of Your Room Display Web Pages
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Microsoft Can Make the Walls of Your Room Display Web Pages

SurroundWeb is a prototype system for displaying Web pages on multiple projectors to display information on the walls of a room. 

Researchers Show High-Speed Laser Communications Device For Space
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Researchers Show High-Speed Laser Communications Device For Space

A prototype array can read more information than usual from single particles of light, and can achieve much higher data rates than conventional systems. 

Google’s Vint Cerf Defines Internet of Things Challenges
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Google’s Vint Cerf Defines Internet of Things Challenges

Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM president Vint Cerf said strong regulations are needed to address privacy and other challenges the Internet of Things presents...

To Thwart Spies, IETF Wants to 'Strengthen the Internet'
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To Thwart Spies, IETF Wants to 'Strengthen the Internet'

Internet Engineering Task Force chair Jari Arkko recently spoke about the need for the engineers behind the Internet to push for new standards that would make it...

Mozilla Developing Geolocation Data Service For Public ­se
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Mozilla Developing Geolocation Data Service For Public ­se

Mozilla plans to offer developers a more privacy-aware geolocation service using cell towers and Wi-Fi signals.

DARPA Adds $15.5 Million to Help Take Semiconductors Beyond Moore's Law
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DARPA Adds $15.5 Million to Help Take Semiconductors Beyond Moore's Law

Microelectronics Advanced Research Corp. has received $15.5 million to further development of future semiconductor technology. 

U.s. to Standardize Car App/communication Device Components
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U.s. to Standardize Car App/communication Device Components

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently issued a call for public and private researchers to develop "a hypothetical four-layer approach to connected vehicle...

Small, Electric-Powered Nano-Lasers May Help Keep Moore’s Law Valid
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Small, Electric-Powered Nano-Lasers May Help Keep Moore’s Law Valid

A seven-year research project has resulted in an electrically powered nano-laser that would let developers put even more lasers in the same space. 
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