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Tongue-Tingling Interface Lets You Taste Data
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Tongue-Tingling Interface Lets You Taste Data

A new device called Tongueduino can turn the tongue into a 'display' for output from environmental sensors. 

Data Waves Keep Your Wearable Tech in Tune
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Data Waves Keep Your Wearable Tech in Tune

A new wireless technique that uses a phenomenon known as Zenneck surface waves could permit wearable technology products to communicate with each other.  

Bandwidth-Sharing App Brings Connectivity to All
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Bandwidth-Sharing App Brings Connectivity to All

Eyal Toledano of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed AirMobs, an app that would allow smartphone owners to share their mobile Internet connections...

Kinect Sensor Poised to Leap Into Everyday Life
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Kinect Sensor Poised to Leap Into Everyday Life

When Microsoft's Kinect gaming sensor first exploded onto the gaming scene in 2010, it wasn't long before people started getting excited about what it might make...

Mapping Malware's Genome to Fight Future Attacks
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Mapping Malware's Genome to Fight Future Attacks

Every year a computer worm emerges to stalk the Internet, each one seemingly bigger and badder than the last (see diagram).

Silent Skype Calls Can Hide Secret Messages
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Silent Skype Calls Can Hide Secret Messages

Got a secret message to send? Say it with silence.

Warning, Speedsters: You Can't Fool Quantum Radar
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Warning, Speedsters: You Can't Fool Quantum Radar

Is it a bird, a plane, or a speeding car?

Brain-Like Chip Outstrips Normal Computers
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Brain-Like Chip Outstrips Normal Computers

Computer chips that mimic the human brain are outstripping conventional chips in crucial ways. They could also revolutionise our understanding of how the brain...

How Metadata Brought Down CIA Boss David Petraeus
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How Metadata Brought Down CIA Boss David Petraeus

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus was brought down by metadata, which is not covered by the Stored Communications Act.

Ping-Pong Robot Learns to Play Like a Person
From ACM News

Ping-Pong Robot Learns to Play Like a Person

A robot that learns to play ping-pong from humans and improves as it competes against them could be the best robotic table-tennis challenger the world has seen.

Robots Get Around By Mimicking Primates
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Robots Get Around By Mimicking Primates

Give a friend directions, such as, "it's across the street from a petrol station, just after a red brick building on the right..." and you can be pretty sure they'll...

Patent Could Shackle 3D Printers with Drm
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Patent Could Shackle 3D Printers with Drm

One of the greatest benefits of 3D printing technology—the ability to make replacements or parts for household objects like toys, utensils and gadgets—may be denied...

First Evidence For Iran's Parallel Halal Internet
From ACM TechNews

First Evidence For Iran's Parallel Halal Internet

Iranian officials have long discussed developing a religiously acceptable internal network, known as the "halal" Internet, which is isolated from the World Wide...

Graphics Chips Are For More Than Just Eye Candy
From ACM News

Graphics Chips Are For More Than Just Eye Candy

Chances are there is a graphics chip in your desktop computer, and it is fuelling a revolution.

The Real Tron: It Security as a Shoot 'em Up
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The Real Tron: It Security as a Shoot 'em Up

MIT researchers have developed an approach that allows IT security professionals to patrol their assigned environments as if they were playing a first-person shooter...

The Real Tron: It Security As a Shoot 'em ­p
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The Real Tron: It Security As a Shoot 'em ­p

Alert to a sudden threat, you race down a virtual corridor of servers, hot on the tail of malicious software.

Mimicry Beats Consciousness in Gaming's Turing Test
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Mimicry Beats Consciousness in Gaming's Turing Test

The Turing test might still be too hard for software to crack—but two programs have already aced video gaming's answer to this famous evaluation of machine intelligence...

Wired Is the New Wireless: Spreading the Web in China
From ACM TechNews

Wired Is the New Wireless: Spreading the Web in China

Although 538 million of China's 1.3 billion people had access to the Internet as of June 2012, most of the country's population is still offline, which led Chinese...

Wired Is the New Wireless: Spreading the Web in China
From ACM News

Wired Is the New Wireless: Spreading the Web in China

It's not easy to give over 1.3 billion people access to the internet—especially if that population is spread across a vast area that ranges from hinterland to sprawling...

Harnessing ­nused Smartphone Power For a Computing Boost
From ACM TechNews

Harnessing ­nused Smartphone Power For a Computing Boost

Technical University of Braunschweig researchers have found that smartphones can be joined together in a network, which when connected via Wi-Fi, can carry out...
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