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Libraries Face the Challenge of Archiving Digital Material from 2023-12-12T19:10:19.116075
For centuries, academic libraries have faced challenges in preserving and storing important written documents. Now, they face a new set of hurdles in preserving and storing born-digital material. A...
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Libraries Face the Challenge of Archiving Digital Material from 2022-03-07T00:23:47.938790
For centuries, academic libraries have faced challenges in preserving and storing important written documents. Now, they face a new set of hurdles in preserving and storing born-digital material. A...
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Libraries Face the Challenge of Archiving Digital Material from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.085317
For centuries, academic libraries have faced challenges in preserving and storing important written documents. Now, they face a new set of hurdles in preserving and storing born-digital material.
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New Bluetooth Version Offers High Speeds and More from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.084442
A standards organization has finished work on Bluetooth 4.0, which will offer high data rates and work with low-power devices such as medical and physical-fitness sensors.
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Steganography Development Offers Promise from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.083342
Researchers have developed a new approach to steganography that could conceal information on CDs in a way that makes it unreadable by conventional CD players but detectable by specially designed de...
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Standard Promises Rich Web Typography from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.082329
A proposed specification that would standardize Web-based fonts promises to enable rich typography on the Web.
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Project Tackles RFID Security from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.081535
A Canadian university researcher is working on ways to provide security for RFID technology. His approach would let users know when a reader is accessing information on an RFID tag or enable them t...
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New Approach Combines TV and Social Networking from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.080790
Researchers are beginning to work on an approach they call social TV, which seamlessly combines social networks and traditional television viewing.
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Project Converts Arms and Hands into Input Devices from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.079994
A Carnegie Mellon University doctoral student has developed a prototype system that could let users turn their arms or hands into keyboards or display screens via acoustic vibrations produced by ta...
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How Safe are Secure Websites from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.074486
Concerned organizations say basic flaws in Web-security design may be causing many websites that display padlock icons-designed to show that they're secure-to be unsafe.
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Dual-Core Processors to Improve Smartphone Performance from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.069437
As more people use smartphones like mobile computers, manufacturers are increasingly placing powerful, energy-efficient dual-core chips in the devices.
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New Technique Doubles Mobile-Network Throughput from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.062049
Rice University researchers have developed a full-duplex wireless technology that could double network throughput inexpensively without requiring new hardware.
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Securing Implanted Medical Devices from Hacking from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.059708
Researchers have developed a system designed to prevent hackers from attacking implantable medical devices such as heart pacemakers.
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Serious Security Flaws Identified in Cloud Systems from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.058638
German researchers have found serious security problems with two cloud systems and say these flaws probably exist in other cloud architectures.
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CN News Podcast: 12-03-2013 from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.049830
A flaw in a vital communications protocol used by utility companies, mobile broadband adoption increasing rapidly except in countries with less-developed economies, and research on biometric system...
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CN News Podcast: 01-07-2014 from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.046436
Yahoo's European advertising website serving malware to hundreds of thousands of visitors over the New Year's holiday period, businesses increasingly working with open source software after years o...
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CN News Podcast: 02-05-2014 from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.044027
Microsoft choosing a new CEO, car-to-car network communications, and annual smartphone sales passing 1 billion for the first time in 2013.
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CN News Podcast: 03-05-2014 from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.040646
The US power grid and cyberattacks, IPv4 addresses, and a new technology that lets Wi-Fi users tap into unused bandwidth from nearby networks.
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CN News Podcast: 04-01-2014 from 2022-02-22T11:31:58.036356
Journalists under fire from hackers, security problems when Windows XP support ends on 9 April, and Facebook working on drones and satellites to bring the Internet to remote areas.
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CN News Podcast: 04-30-2014 from 2022-02-22T11:31:57.992592
A serious Internet Explorer flaw, a group to support key open source projects to avoid problems like the critical Heartbleed flaw, and developing robots that can teach other robots to play games.
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CN News Podcast: 05-06-2014 from 2022-02-22T11:31:57.991816
Verdict in the second epic Apple-Samsung patent lawsuit, a US report saying that the Internet of Things could cause serious privacy problems, and researchers demonstrating how hackers could comprom...
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CN News Podcast: 06-03-2014 from 2022-02-22T11:31:57.988375
Applications for the Internet of Things, high-tech cars' vulnerability to hackers, and Google launching satellites to provide internet access to unserved and underserved areas of the world.
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CN News Podcast: 08-07-2014 from 2022-02-22T11:31:57.980698
Researchers working with a highly efficient technique to replace TCP/IP, Russian hackers stealing more than a billion passwords, and the US National Football League using RFID sensors to track play...
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CN News Podcast: 09-08-2014 from 2022-02-22T11:31:57.976422
The recent digital crime wave, NATO being ready to approve a pledge of mutual defense in case of a major cyberattack, and researchers using visible light for car-to-car communications.
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CN News Podcast: 10-01-2014 from 2022-02-22T11:31:57.972739
Hackers starting to exploit the critical Shellshock vulnerability, new technology making security just a heartbeat away, and a potato-salad crowdfunding joke that turned into a boon for charity.
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CN News Podcast: 12-03-2014 from 2022-02-22T11:31:57.958649
E-commerce websites crashing under the weight of holiday traffic, breaking up Google in Europe, and a new project promising to help make the Web more secure.
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CN News Podcast: 01-28-2015 from 2015-01-28T08:10:16
Three advanced technologies beginning to improve mobile telephony, researchers developing an application that wins at poker, and familiar names at the top of 2014's list of worst passwords.
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CN News Podcast: 01-21-2015 from 2015-01-21T08:10:16
French websites defaced, bug that enables eavesdropping on cell calls, and NASA's ape-like robot.
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CN News Podcast: 01-13-2015 from 2015-01-13T08:10:16
Hackers attacking the Internet naming authority, companies working on ways to let mobile apps communicate with one another, and California prisoners being taught to program.
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CN News Podcast: 12-10-2014 from 2014-12-10T08:10:16
Sony hit with a devastating attack, a new Bluetooth version that connects to the Internet, and the father of the home video console dying recently.
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CN News Podcast: 11-26-2014 from 2014-11-26T08:10:16
Malware that has been spying on victims for six years, a company at the center of a controversy over the future of cloud services and TV broadcasting declaring bankruptcy, and virtual reality that ...
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CN News Podcast: 11-19-2014 from 2014-11-19T08:10:16
Microsoft telling users to patch a potentially catastrophic Windows flaw, researchers finding that many children’s apps violate users’ privacy, and a group wanting permission for players to revive ...
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CN News Podcast: 11-14-2014 from 2014-11-13T08:10:16
Extensive law-enforcement operation taking down dark websites allegedly involved in criminal activity, hackers stealing employee data from the US Postal Service, and scientists designing robotic pe...
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CN News Podcast: 11-05-2014 from 2014-11-05T08:10:16
China reportedly attacking Apple’s iCloud, a game company forcing the shutdown of a gamebot maker, and a new system letting babies isolated in incubators feel their mothers' heartbeats.
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CN News Podcast: 10-30-2014 from 2014-10-30T08:10:16
Malicious advertising attacks inflicting ransomware on victims, desktop-as-a-service technology growing in popularity, and a start-up developing smart-gun technology for police.
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CN News Podcast: 10-22-2014 from 2014-10-29T08:10:16
Another serious flaw in a major Internet-security technology, a consortium working on new Ethernet approaches, and a new text service that could help spot Ebola outbreaks in Africa.
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CN News Podcast: 10-17-2014 from 2014-10-17T08:10:16
Hackers breaching European ATMs and withdrawing cash, the US rejecting more software patents than in the past, and a new trend in which wearable technology adheres to skin.
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CN News Podcast: 10-10-2014 from 2014-10-10T08:10:16
Silicon Valley legend Hewlett-Packard splitting into two companies after 75 years, support growing for a new software approach that could boost cloud computing, and some security experts saying mob...
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CN News Podcast: 09-23-2014 from 2014-09-22T08:10:16
A flaw that exposes personal data in government databases, the top five US universities whose computer science bachelor's degree recipients make the most money, and three exotic Web-tracking tools ...
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CN News Podcast: 09-18-2014 from 2014-09-18T08:10:16
A tiny radio that could help enable the Internet of Things, a high-powered version of TCP rendering firewalls and other security products useless, and Google testing drones to provide Internet acce...
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CN News Podcast: 08-27-2014 from 2014-08-27T08:10:16
Commercial systems that secretly track cell phone owners' movements gaining popularity, ransomware hitting Android phones, and huge robot swarms self-assemble into complex shapes.
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CN News Podcast: 08-21-2014 from 2014-08-21T08:10:16
Hackers steal customer data from supermarket chains and a major healthcare system; technology to help poorer parts of the world connect to the Internet; and Intel's new fanless, energy-efficient ch...
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CN News Podcast: 08-14-2014 from 2014-08-14T08:10:16
IBM announcing a new type of chip inspired by the brain; security researchers listing the cars most and least vulnerable to hacking; and a US court rejecting a settlement in a wage-fixing collusion...
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CN News Podcast: 07-30-2014 from 2014-07-30T08:10:16
Hackers using Amazon's cloud service to launch denial-of-service attacks, a study saying that widespread Internet connectivity imperils important systems, and researchers developing robotic furnitu...
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CN News Podcast: 07-23-2014 from 2014-07-18T08:10:16
Hackers placing potentially dangerous malware "bombs" in the Nasdaq stock exchange's computer system, cloud computing causing problems for digital-forensics investigators, and applications changing...
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CN News Podcast: 07-18-2014 from 2014-07-18T08:10:16
The recent World Cup becoming the biggest social-media event ever, researchers setting a speed record for data transmissions over copper wiring, and an industry group proposing a new smart-home wir...
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CN News Podcast: 07-10-2014 from 2014-07-10T08:10:16
A Microsoft anti-malware operation inadvertently taking millions of servers offline, a new development road map for OpenSSL, and many UK and US theaters banning Google Glass.
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CN News Podcast: 07-02-2014 from 2014-07-02T08:10:16
A US court decision that has sparked fears for cloud services' future, a new approach that promises a Web-development revolution, and a hacker operation that threatened the US energy industry.
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CN News Podcast: 06-25-2014 from 2014-06-25T08:10:16
A recent report showing the slowed growth in supercomputer performance, a new technology that increases wireless bandwidth, and virtual reality coming to gaming.
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CN News Podcast: 06-17-2014 from 2014-06-18T08:10:16
World Cup technology, reinventing the computer, and hackers using weak passwords, just like their victims.
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CN News Podcast: 06-10-2014 from 2014-06-11T08:10:16
Hardening systems to fend off government spying, governments cooperating to disrupt two major cyberattack systems, and a new technique for baking robot components to make them self-assemble.
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CN News Podcast: 05-28-2014 from 2014-05-30T08:10:16
eBay and security breaches, Google as the world’s most valuable brand, and MIT scientists developing a way to provide satellites with ultrafast communications.
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CN News Podcast: 05-20-2014 from 2014-05-21T08:10:16
International law-enforcement sweep netting people for allegedly distributing malware; the European Court of Justice supporting the right to be forgotten; and the US formally charging Chinese milit...
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CN News Podcast: 05-13-2014 from 2014-05-14T08:10:16
Hospital equipment vulnerable to hacking, IBM experimenting with electronic-blood technology to power and cool supercomputers, and police using crowdsourcing in investigations.
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CN News Podcast: 04-22-2014 from 2014-04-24T08:10:16
The Heartbleed flaw, the US Supreme Court hearing an important case that could change the future of TV broadcasting and cloud-based services, and a laser-based technology that could quadruple Inter...
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CN News Podcast: 04-15-2014 from 2014-04-16T08:10:16
Qualcomm developing technology that triples Wi-Fi speeds, researchers designing a deep-learning system for smartphones, and a new "antisocial" iPhone app helping users avoid people they don’t want ...
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CN News Podcast: 04-08-2014 from 2014-04-10T08:10:16
Hackers seeking ransom to stop DoS attacks they launch, content providers challenging service providers over slow network speeds, and European governments paying for continued Windows XP support.
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CN News Podcast: 03-25-2014 from 2014-03-26T08:10:16
Smart homes as easy targets for hackers, a virtual-reality gaming headset, and researchers developing a drone that could steal data from smartphones it flies over.
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CN News Podcast: 03-18-2014 from 2014-03-20T08:10:16
The US giving up administrative control of the Internet, a European Parliament committee vote challenging Net neutrality, and an open source project aiming to build mobile networks inexpensively.
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CN News Podcast: 03-11-2014 from 2014-03-12T08:10:16
Java as malware developers' favorite target, a headset that beams video directly into user's eyes, and a tiny computer that a user wears in the ear and controls with facial movements.
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CN News Podcast: 02-25-2014 from 2014-02-27T12:10:16
Security problems with healthcare-related companies' networks that could compromise patient privacy, Google's prototype smartphone that can view the word around it in 3D, and a mobile app that help...
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CN News Podcast: 02-19-2014 from 2014-02-19T16:20:17
A recent DDoS attack being the biggest ever measured, privacy concerns about a major US airport's information-gathering lighting system, and a new energy-saving trend in which supercomputers are k...
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CN News Podcast: 02-11-2014 from 2014-02-11T16:20:17
Problems with bitcoin threatening the virtual currency's viability, a new technology called GOTCHA that provides online security, and experts warning Olympic Games attendees to expect hacking and c...
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CN News Podcast: 01-28-2014 from 2014-01-28T16:20:17
Hackers conducting the first Internet of Things attack, an apparent mistake by Chinese censors diverting a huge volume of China's Internet traffic to a small US company, and the increased connectiv...
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CN News Podcast: 01-21-2014 from 2014-01-21T16:20:17
A federal court overturning the US's controversial Net neutrality policy, the theft of credit-card data that could affect 40 percent of South Korea's population, and Google developing a smart conta...
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CN News Podcast: 12-30-2013 from 2013-12-30T16:20:17
The aftershocks of the huge security breach that the Target company experienced, a boost for an organization that is trying to reduce online activities' dependence on passwords, and a high-tech ten...
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CN News Podcast: 12-18-2013 from 2013-12-18T16:20:17
Yahoo Mail experiencing a long outage, actions and statements by various governments hurting the bitcoin virtual currency, and headgear that notifies coaches about head injuries that athletes exper...
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CN News Podcast: 12-11-2013 from 2013-12-11T16:20:17
A plan by companies to design a framework for the Internet of Things, DARPA's development of video games that could help identify software vulnerabilities, and researchers finding two flaws that co...
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CN News Podcast: 11-26-2013 from 2013-11-26T16:20:17
Attacks in which hackers hijack Internet traffic, a new system designed to help people who suffer accidental falls, and the first accredited university to let students pay for tuition with bitcoins.
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CN News Podcast: 11-19-2013 from 2013-11-19T16:20:17
The Anonymous hacking group attacking US government sites and stealing information, the Stuxnet worm infecting the International Space Station, and researchers using GPS to track a giant iceberg th...
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CN News Podcast: 11-11-2013 from 2013-11-11T16:20:17
A plan to close the WHOIS system for domain-name registration records, a program offering bug bounties for the entire Internet, and a study showing that streaming media consumes the greatest amount...
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Steganography Approach Hides Messages in IP Phone Calls from 2012-07-24T16:13:26
Scientists have developed a way to hide data within voice-over-IP packets, enabling people to secretly send information to others while having a normal phone conversation.
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Privacy Controversy Flares over Software on Mobile Phones from 2012-07-20T16:04:09
The announcement that 141 million smartphones run an application that allegedly captures information about users has caused a storm of controversy, including denials from the software’s vendor.
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Japanese Company Unveils Tiny, Ultrafast Wireless Chip from 2012-06-26T15:33:12
A company has designed a tiny, inexpensive chip that can wirelessly transmit signals at up to 1.5 Gbits per second now and possibly 30 Gbps in the future.
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Scientists Use Computers to Crack Old, Encrypted German Document from 2012-05-29T17:26:06
A team of researchers has used computer analysis, machine translation, and other technologies to crack an encrypted 18th-century document that had previously resisted decryption.
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Researchers Launch Full-Court Press to Find Problems with Industrial-Control Systems from 2012-05-24T16:17:45
Hackers and security researchers are increasing efforts to find problems with the control systems that run factories, nuclear-power plants, and other critical facilities.
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Braille Writer Promises to Help the Blind Communicate from 2012-05-15T15:03:41
A research team has developed a relatively inexpensive device for writing Braille that solves the problem of blind users having to find keys on a virtual keyboard that appears on a flat glass touch...
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New Transistor Could Let Devices Interact Directly with Living Things from 2012-03-29T11:28:49
University of Washington scientists have built a transistor that uses protons to send information, potentially enabling devices that could communicate with living things.
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Scientists Unveil Haptic Pedestrian Navigation System from 2012-03-28T17:27:12
Japanese researchers have developed a pedestrian navigation system that uses haptics so that users can watch where they’re going and not have to look at maps or a device. .
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System Identifies User Location without GPS or Wi-Fi from 2012-01-24T13:26:01
A Swiss semiconductor vendor has developed a system for mobile devices that determines a user’s location when neither GPS nor Wi-Fi is available.
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Researchers Develop Electronic ‘Tattoo’ for Health Monitoring from 2012-01-13T13:23:33
Engineers have developed flexible circuitry that can be mounted on a user’s skin to perform tasks such as health monitoring.
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IBM and 3M Will Develop Adhesives for Building Powerful Multilayer Chips from 2011-12-16T16:53:08
IBM and 3M have announced plans to jointly design adhesives that could enable the stacking of 100 chips, thereby enabling ultrafast processors.
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MIT Microchips Could Revolutionize Healthcare from 2011-11-23T13:55:49
MIT researchers are developing energy-efficient microchips that could operate within wearable or implantable devices that monitor medical patient for health problems.
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First Smart Grid Standards Approved from 2011-10-13T12:40:12
A group representing companies and government agencies has approved the first smart grid standards.
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Antennas Use Plasma to Make Wireless Networks Faster from 2011-09-28T10:55:38
A new type of antenna uses plasma to focus radio waves and enable ultrafast wireless networks.
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MIT Develops Network-Intrusion Recovery System from 2011-08-24T11:27:17
MIT researchers have developed a system that promises to make it easier for systems to recover from security breaches.
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Simplifying Mobile Recommendation Technology with AI from 2011-08-12T12:43:35
A company has developed a recommendation engine that uses AI to anticipate what users want even before they have a chance to ask.
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Flying Robots Designed to Form Emergency Network from 2011-07-21T14:56:57
European academic researchers have developed a constellation of sturdy, lightweight flying robots using wireless communications that could be employed in mapping, remote sensing, ground searches, a...
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Testing Tool Finds Software Bugs Efficiently from 2011-06-30T11:18:36
US National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a testing tool designed to cut costs by finding software flaws more efficiently than similar approaches.
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Electronic Paintbrush Captures Colors and Textures from Objects for Use in Creating Art from 2011-05-24T13:10:18
Researchers have developed a high-tech brush that lets users create art by picking up images, video, audio, colors, and textures from objects and painting them onto a touch-screen canvas.
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Wireless Devices Provide Users with Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspots from 2011-05-24T13:06
Personal mobile hotspots let users wirelessly access network services even when no traditional Wi-Fi hotspots are nearby.
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Project Generates Energy by Harvesting Radio Waves from 2010-10-21T12:10:16
Two scientists have developed a system that uses ambient radio waves to generate energy, potentially eliminating the need for batteries in mobile devices.
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System Takes Efficient Approach to Object Recognition from 2010-09-28T10:43:48
Academic researchers have developed an approach that promises to make object-recognition systems efficient users of system memory and thus also of computational resources.
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New Service Promises to Improve Online Search from 2010-09-24T10:53:59
A new product promises to help users determine the most relevant results of their online searches.
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Application Uses Visualization Technology to Fight Disease from 2010-09-17T11:31:27
A researcher has developed visualization techniques and a toolkit that let users comb through disease-related statistics in otherwise unexamined sources - such as patient records and newspaper arti...
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Device Could Eliminate Wires in Home and Office Communications from 2010-09-10T13:42:15
Purdue University researchers are working on a small device that converts laser pulses into radio signals, which could enable high-speed wireless communications in place of many of the wired transm...
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