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Computing with Secrets, but Keeping them Safe

A novel technique could see future Web services work with sensitive data without ever being able to read it. Several implementations of a mathematical proof unveiled...

Programming Visually With Sikuli
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Programming Visually With Sikuli

Researchers at MIT and the University of Maryland have created Sikuli, software that could eventually make programming easy enough for everyday computer users. 

Study Looks at Potential Effects of Multi-Touch Devices
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Study Looks at Potential Effects of Multi-Touch Devices

Arizona State University professor Kanav Kahol is leading a research effort to evaluate whether the long-term use of multitouch devices places musculoskeletal stress...

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AI That Picks Stocks Better Than the Pros

A computer science professor uses textual analysis of articles from Yahoo Finance to beat the market.

The Risks of Parenting While Plugged In
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The Risks of Parenting While Plugged In

While waiting for an elevator at the Fair Oaks Mall near her home in Virginia recently, Janice Im, who works in early-childhood development, witnessed a troubling...

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Cyber War: Microsoft a Weak Link in National Security

"Microsoft has vast resources, literally billions of dollars in cash, or liquid assets reserves. Microsoft is an incredibly successful empire built on the premise...

IBM Exploring Voice-Driven Web For the Developing World
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IBM Exploring Voice-Driven Web For the Developing World

IBM Research India has launched the Spoken Web, a network designed to use phones, not computers, to bring information on the Web to mainly under-served populations...

'imaginary' Interface Could Replace Real Thing
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'imaginary' Interface Could Replace Real Thing

German researchers are developing Imaginary Interfaces, an interface system for mobile devices that would replace the screen and keyboard with gestures supported...

Thumbs Up For Gesture-Based Computing
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Thumbs Up For Gesture-Based Computing

Fashion crime it may be, but a multicoloured dayglo glove could bring Minority Report-style computing to your home PC.

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Researcher's Robots Learn From Environment, Not Programming

University of Arizona professor Ian Fasel's Concept Learning from Intrinsically Motivated sensory-motor Experience project is researching what robots are able to...

Military Taps Social Networking Skills
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Military Taps Social Networking Skills

As a teenager, Jamie Christopher would tap instant messages to make plans with friends, and later she became a Facebook regular. Now a freckle-faced 25, a first...

How Computers Know What We Want
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How Computers Know What We Want

Here's an experiment: try thinking of a song not as a song but as a collection of distinct musical attributes. Maybe the song has political lyrics. That would be...

Invisibility Cloaks and How to ­se Them
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Invisibility Cloaks and How to ­se Them

The "invisibility cloaks" being made in labs today can hide objects when viewed from a wide range of directions and in visible light--both considered implausible...

Breaking Down the Web Barriers Bit by Bit
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Breaking Down the Web Barriers Bit by Bit

A system to remove barriers to the Internet faced by people with disabilities is gaining ground. The NavigAbile project is based on profiling at the entry point...

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How the Brain Recognizes Objects

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's McGovern Institute of Brain Research have devised a computational model describing how the primate brain...

The Age of the Interface
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The Age of the Interface

Improved integration between the human body and electronic devices should usher in the age of the organic user interface, whose potential implementations include...

Little Known Norwegian Browser Challenges the Big Boys
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Little Known Norwegian Browser Challenges the Big Boys

No. 1 in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Belarus. It might not be a slogan to attract an avalanche of American Internet users, but the Norwegian company that makes the...

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Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price

When one of the most important e-mail messages of his life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it. Not just for a day or two, but 12...

Dna Logic Gates Herald Injectable Computers
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Dna Logic Gates Herald Injectable Computers

Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have developed DNA-based logic gates that could carry out calculations inside the body and may lead to injectable biocomputers...

Augmented Reality Edges Closer to Mainstream
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Augmented Reality Edges Closer to Mainstream

To an unenlightened observer, Ron Haidenger's demonstration of playing a video game by tilting a piece of cardboard back and forth looks more than a little bit...
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