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Discover Endless Copyright-Free Music Innovation Prototype

If successful, this prototype, which has been described recently in the journal Expert Systems with Applications, looks likely to bring about great changes in…

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Faster Search Engines: Enhancing Relevance and Efficiency

The goal of all search engines is to attain the most relevant responses as quickly as possible. When search engines calculate their search results, they are…

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First live 'cloning' of faces challenges assumptions about human behavior

Published this month in the peer-reviewed journal Language & Speech, the new technique tracks in real time facial expressions and head movements during a video…

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iPhone – the work tool for sustainable factories of the future

Operators will always be online thanks to an iPhone attached to their protective clothing. This is the vision of researchers from Chalmers, the Volvo Group,…

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Affordable Underwater Sensor Nets Unveiled at IEEE Workshop

At the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop in Rome, Italy, on May 25, computer scientists from the Jacobs School of Engineering presented a paper…

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How NIST Is Shaping Cloud Computing Security Standards

Since the federal government is considering cloud computing as a component of its new technology infrastructure, it is NIST’s role to evaluate it and then…

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NIST Tests Next-Gen Internet Products for Government Use

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is establishing a testing program to assure that the U.S. government purchases new computers and…

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Best Practices for Multiphysics Simulations in Industry

The Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI regularly arranges this well-known event in the numerical simulations community. This…

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Caltech Physicists Detect Photon Entanglement Across Four Locations

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed an efficient method to detect entanglement shared among multiple parts of an…

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Nimbus Innovation: Transforming Cloud Computing Today

Cloud computing is a hot topic in the technology world these days. Even if you're not a tech-phile, chances are if you've watched a lot of television or…

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Breakthrough in Chip Technology: Faster Processing Ahead

A team of scientists and engineers from Stanford, the University of Florida and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the first to create one of two basic…

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Advancing Science: The Shift in Simulation Superiority

Science and engineering are advancing rapidly in part due to ever more powerful computer simulations, yet the most advanced supercomputers require programming…

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Boosting Hospital Efficiency with Siemens EHP4 Update

Effective immediately, Siemens Healthcare is offering EHP4 (Enhancement Package 4) for its i.s.h.med hospital information system (HIS). In keeping with the new…

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New Fingerprint Tech Achieves 80% Accuracy in NIST Tests

Prototype systems evaluated by NIST performed surprisingly well for a developing technology: half of the prototypes were accurate at least 80 percent of the…

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NIST Unveils New Error-Suppression Method for Quantum Computers

The new error-suppression method, described in the April 23 issue of Nature,* was demonstrated using an array of about 1,000 ultracold beryllium ions…

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Lip-Reading Computers Now Recognize Multiple Languages

Computers that can read lips are already in development but this is the first time they have been 'taught' to recognise different languages. The discovery…

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