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DASGIP iApp Adds Webcam Support for Live Bioreactor Views

Scientists and process engineers using the DASGIP iApp can now watch live views of their bioreactors from webcams installed in the laboratory while they have…

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Unlock Location-Based Mixed Reality Games for Your Smartphone

In Tidy City, players have to solve missions involving their urban vicinity. In Portal Hunt, teams of players chase mysterious portals. Both games rely on GPS…

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Powerful Algorithm Enhances Ontology Alignment Efficiency

Thus this disorder has led to demands ‘ontology alignment’ to literally align two or more seemingly similar, but quite different ontologies for unified…

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New Software Aids Fight Against Nitrates in Florida's Groundwater

Now, along with his FSU professor and colleagues, Rios has written an important and practical software program that could protect Florida’s lakes and rivers…

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Wireless 'Breadcrumbs' That Won’t Become Toast When Baked…or Soggy When Hosed

Yet, despite the ubiquity of such devices, with few exceptions, today's firefighters still rely on 20th-century radios, whose outdated analog signals have…

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A Dosimeter That Could Save Your Life, and It Fits in Your Wallet

The Department of Homeland Security(DHS)'s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has developed a miniaturized version of a dosimeter, a portable device used…

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TagSense: New App Smartly Tags Your Photos Instantly

The system works by taking advantage of the multiple sensors on a mobile phone, as well as those of other mobile phones in the vicinity.Dubbed TagSense, the…

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LiquidText Software Supports Active Reading through Fingertip Manipulation of Text

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed software that facilitates an innovative approach to active reading. Taking advantage of…

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Active Self-Defense: Key to Deterring Cyber Attacks

Law professor Jay P. Kesan warns that an active self-defense regime, which he terms “mitigative counterstriking,” is a necessity in cyberspace, especially to…

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Smartphone App Helps You Find Friends in a Crowd

Engineers are trying to find out, with software that helps people locate their friends in a crowd – and make new friends who share similar interests.The…

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World-Record Low Noise Optical Amplifier Boosts Fiber Reach

The breakthrough enables a reach increase for optical fiber signals from e.g. 1000 km to 4000 km, paving way for increasing the capacity of data…

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Supercomputer "K computer" Takes First Place in World

The TOP500-ranked K computer system, currently in the configuration stage, has 672 computer racks equipped with a current total of 68,544 CPUs. This half-build…

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Einstein and Fourier Inspire Breakthrough in Computer Vision

The techniques, called heat mapping and heat distribution, apply mathematical methods to enable machines to perceive three-dimensional objects, said Karthik…

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Landsat 5 Aids Emergency Response to Arizona’s Largest Fire

The Landsat 5 satellite captured images of the Wallow North and Horseshoe 2 fires burning in eastern Arizona on June 15, 2011 at 19:54:23 Zulu (3:54 p.m. EDT)….

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Streamlined asset management takes flight

A single aeroplane contains roughly four million individual parts, and successfully keeping entire fleets in the air requires easy and efficient access to…

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GPS Stations Uncover Hidden Nuclear Tests Through Ionosphere Insights

Even underground nuclear tests leave their mark on the part of the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere, the researchers discovered, when they examined GPS…

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