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How Twitter Could Better Predict Disease Outbreaks
Social media is particularly useful for anyone who wants to track the present—or predict the future.
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Tiny Springs Could Reduce Microchip Waste
Palo Alto Research Center researchers led by Eugene Chow have developed a technique involving microscale springs that make computer chips more reliable and less...
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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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A Step Closer to Perfect 3D Data Storage
In the introduction to a paper in press in the Journal of Biotechnology, Virgile Adam of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, along with a long list...
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The Achilles' Heel of Your Computer
Device drivers account for most crashes and even introduce security problems; a new testing tool could provide an early warning.
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The Challenge of Molecular Communication
Research led by Ph.D. student Sachin Kadloor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are investigating how much information can be exchanged via molecular...
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Making Optical Switching More Practical For Telecom
Using all-optical controls could speed the transmission of telecommunications data, but optical switches that can work at high bandwidths need a lot of energy to...
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Nanoscale Random Number Circuit to Secure Future Chips
Intel engineers have created computer processors with circuits capable of random behavior, a development that could lead to secure cryptography keys.
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The Challenge of Molecular Communication
Bacteria communicate with molecules, and now computer scientists want to copy them. Their first task: to derive a mathematical theory of molecular communication...
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How Wi-Fi Drains Your Cell Phone
A study finds problems, but also offers software fixes that could help cell phones last significantly longer between charges.
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Working Toward a Smarter, Faster Cloud
A proposed system would let cloud developers control the way their data travels across different machines.
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Sending Data 160 Characters at a Time
In the absence of a good Internet connection, why not use text messages to transmit data?
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Flexible Touch Screen Made With Printed Graphene
Researchers at Samsung and Sungkyunkwan University have developed a graphene-based flexible touch screen that eventually could lead to transparent electronics.
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How to Prevent Language Extinction
Two-thirds of the world's languages are being nudged toward oblivion and are in danger of extinction. A new mathematical model of language competition indicates...
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Nanotubes Give Batteries a Jolt
Lithium-ion batteries with nanotube electrodes could go longer between charges.
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Study Shows Inequalities in 'White-Spaces' Wireless
University of California, Berkeley researchers recently published a detailed analysis of the potential for long-distance wireless Internet connectivity using white...
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How the Apple Ii Taught Programmers to Economize
Imagine trying to program a virtual machine--a software instance that mimics all the characteristics of a physical computer--on a device with 2 kilobytes of RAM...
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China: Our Internet Is Free Enough
China, with the most Internet users of any country in the world, has issued its first government whitepaper declaring an overall Internet strategy--one that advocates...
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Flickr Photos Yield Tourist Trails
Yahoo! researchers have developed a tool that draws on the database of millions of Flickr photos to generate detailed itineraries of what tourist sites to visit...
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