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New Web Privacy System Enhances Safety for Browsing

The system, 'Confinement with Origin Web Labels,' or COWL, works with Mozilla's Firefox and the open-source version of Google's Chrome web browsers and…

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CIE + Cisco Innovation Challenge: Shaping Big Data and Cloud

The Chicago Innovation Exchange (CIE) and Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence (Cisco EIR) have created the “CIE + Cisco Innovation Challenge” to support…

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Drivers, don't trade in your smartphone for Google Glass yet

“Texting with either a smartphone or Glass will cause distraction and should be avoided while driving” said UCF researcher Ben Sawyer. “Glass did help drivers…

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Artificial intelligence that imitates children's learning

However, a research team from Gothenburg, Sweden, has now been able to create an AI program that can learn how to solve problems in many different areas. The…

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Smartphone Gesture Control Powered by Reflected Transmissions

What's coming next, say University of Washington researchers, is the ability to interact with our devices not just with touchscreens, but through gestures in…

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New RFID Tech Enables Robots to Locate Household Items

Today’s robots usually see the world with cameras and lasers, which have difficulty reliably recognizing things and can miss objects that are hidden in…

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Centralized Apps Transform Electric Car Functionality

Basically, the idea is to control a variety of vehicle functions on a uniform, centralized computer platform instead of providing every system with its own…

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‘Honeybee’ robots replicate swarm behaviour

Colias – named after a genus of butterfly – is an open-platform system that can be used to investigate collective behaviours and be applied to swarm…

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Open Source Content Decryption Module Now Available for All

The Open Source Content Decryption Module has been developed by Fraunhofer FOKUS with the aim to be suitable and interoperable for as many systems and…

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New Computer Vision Technique Enhances Web Page Quality Assurance

A novel software technique is about to revolutionize the quality assurance on the Web. It automates the comparison of HTML pages across many browsers and a…

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Ultrascale Computing: Exploring the Future of Speed and Efficiency

Ultrascale systems combine the advantages of distributed and parallel computing systems. The former is a type of computing in which many tasks are executed at…

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Automated Live Cell Imaging Accelerates Drug Discovery

The new Zeta software platform allows researchers to implement specific imaging workflows for a broad range of applications in drug research very easily. The…

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Anticipatory Alarm System Transforms Industrial Management

A*STAR researchers have developed an anticipatory alarm system based on dynamic models of industrial processes using concepts similar to extreme weather…

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ZigBee Technology: Lightweight Wireless Solutions for Satellites

With the weight of payloads being a major constraint in satellite design, constructing a lightweight, low power-consuming, wireless communication system to do…

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Parallel Computing: The Next Step in Mass Internet Access

As he wove together the “parallel computing” aspects from each grant, he was able to tell a much larger, more interconnected story –– one of delivering…

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New Cloud Computing Testbeds: Chameleon and CloudLab Launch

The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced two $10 million projects to create cloud computing testbeds–to be called “Chameleon” and “CloudLab”–that will enable the academic research community to develop and experiment with novel cloud architectures and pursue new, architecturally-enabled applications of cloud computing….

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