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Futuristic Fibers Could Replace Camera Lenses
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new type of fiber that is capable of producing images without the need for a lens...
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Optical Chip Detects Blood Molecules
A portable 'lab on a chip' that can identify specific targeted molecules in blood samples has been created by European researchers. It is being used to measure...
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Semantic Web Technology to Get pdate
A proposal before the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) would dramatically improve SPARQL, the query technology for the Semantic Web, for application development....
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Robo-Bats With Metal Muscles May Be Next Generation of Remote Control Flyers
North Carolina State University (NCSU) researchers are developing a highly maneuverable bat-sized flying robot that could be used for a variety of purposes, including...
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Memristor Minds: The Future of Artificial Intelligence
The lack of a rigorous mathematical foundation for electronics impelled engineer Leon Chua to develop one, which led to the formulation of the memristor — a theoretical...
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Plastic Circuits to Make Tougher, Greener Computers
Australian engineers have found a way to make circuits out of plastic. The Circuits in Plastic (CIP) technology is made from recycled plastic, does not contain...
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Software nlocks the Power of Grids
A huge amount of computing power sits idle most of the time, and new technologies enabling the sharing of resources aim to capitalize on that. Now European researchers...
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Digital Eyes Will Chart Baseball's nseen Skills
The game of baseball could be significantly affected by a new camera and software system capable of recording the precise speed and location of the ball and every...
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Robot Learns to Smile and Frown
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have developed an Einstein robot "empowered" to learn to smile and frown realistically via machine...
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Ndssl Receives $1.45 Million to Develop Petascale Computer Modeling Capabilities
The Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory (NDSSL) at Virginia Tech's Virginia Bioinformatics Institute has been awarded a four-year, $1.45 million...
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Flaw Opens Atms to Hackers
Juniper security researcher Barnaby Jack canceled plans for a live demonstration of the insecurity of automatic teller machines (ATMs) at the upcoming Black Hat...
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Laser Light Switch Could Leave Transistors in the Shade
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have developed an optical transistor that uses one laser beam to control another, potentially forming...
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'Toy niverse' Could Solve Life's Origins
The EvoGrid envisioned by Bruce Damer and a group of international advisers is a simulation of the primordial soup that they intend to use to gain insights about...
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Siggraph Announces Stereoscopic 3d Cinema and Home Theater Trends
ACM's SIGGRAPH 2009 conference will take a comprehensive look at how stereoscopic 3D will impact the movie industry as well as the home theater in the years to...
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Beyond
Human-computer interaction is undergoing a revolution, entering a multimodal era that goes beyond, way beyond, the WIMP (Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointers) paradigm....
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Building a Crash-Proof Internet
The Internet's susceptibility to earthquakes, accidents, and other disruptions appears to be greater than people originally assumed, and a great deal of the Net's...
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Darpa's Smart, Flat Camera Is Packed With Beady Eyes
Southern Methodist University professor Marc Christensen, backed by funding from the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has developed...
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Video Tool to Zoom in on Criminals
Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed software that enhances the resolution of raw video images and improves the quality of the images. TAU professor...
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Physicists Find Way to Control Individual Bits in Quantum Computers
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to manipulate...
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