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Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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Filming Photons, One Million Times a Second
European researchers have created a CMOS semiconductor camera capable of filming individual photons one million times a second. The breakthrough will have an...
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Self-Managing Internet Applications Flex Their Muscles
A European research project that incubates self-managing Internet applications is paying off. It has inspired a Wikipedia that the researchers claim is betterSELFMAN...
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Iits Strike Partnerships With Global niversities
Some of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are launching projects along with global universities to offer students and faculty more opportunities for collaborative...
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Robots in Education
Robots are increasingly becoming ubiquitous in education. The Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million contest to design a robot capable of traveling to the moon, is...
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Augmented Reality Gets Off to a Wobbly Start
Although the iPhone can superimpose navigation routes or reviews on top of real-time images, augmented reality (AR) still has a long way to go. The iPhone's application...
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Next Stop The Visual Walkman
With help from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, Delft University doctoral student Jurjen Caarls has created a device that allows users to see computer and...
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'time Telescope' Could Boost Web
Researchers led by Cornell University's Mark Foster report that they have developed a prototype device that could significantly boost the volume of information...
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Louisiana Tech Receives Grant to Advance Women in Engineering, Science
The U.S. National Science Foundation's ADVANCE program has awarded Louisiana Tech University $736,500 for a four-year initiative called "Creating a Culture of Success...
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Pioneering Software Robots to Aid Businesses
Royal Holloway, University of London, will integrate its intelligent agent technology with distributed data management technology developed by the software company...
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Google Invites sers to Join Wave
Google developers Lars and Jens Rasmussen have released a limited preview of an open source messenger called Wave. Users must be invited to test the application...
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ACM Plans to Serve European Computing Community With World-Class Resources
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers, and professionals...
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Researchers to Create Semantic Web Platforms For Massive Scientific Collaboration
Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to...
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Honda Research Hints at Nano Class of Electronics
Microscopic carbon nanotubes may have the potential to transport electricity faster and over greater distances with minimal loss of energy, according to new research...
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'state of the Internet' Assessed
Internet attacks came from 201 different countries in the second quarter of 2009, up from 68 countries in the first quarter, according to a report released Thursday...
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Gaming Tech Aids Scientists Building Virtual Synthetic Chromatophore
Researchers are relying on graphics processing units to help build a highly complex computer simulation depicting how chromatophore proteins create photosynthesis...
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Wireless Network Modded to See Through Walls
The way signal strength varies in a wireless network can reveal what's going on behind closed doors. It's every schoolboy's dream: an easy way of looking through...
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Scientists Create Computer Language to Describe Color
Xerox researchers have created Natural Language Color technology, a computer language that enables users to describe how they want an image's colors adjusted....
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Smart Grid Vulnerabilities Could Cause Widespread Disruptions
A new cybersecurity coordination task force report highlights the need for planners to prepare for possible attacks on the U.S.'s smart grid and the technology...
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Locust Flight Simulator Helps Robot Insects Evolve
A team at the University of Oxford has built a computer model of the wing motion of a locust, and says the surface structures of the wings are key to generating...
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