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Paperspace computer aims to resolve hardware distractions

A promotional video for Paperspace made its point quickly. A woman sitting at a computer sighed as she pressed down on the keys impatiently, as the straight-faced announcer noted computers can be such a pain. ...

Internet

6 hours ago
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Facebook artificial intelligence team serves up 20 tasks

In August last year, Daniela Hernandez wrote in Wired about Yann LeCun, director of AI Research at Facebook. His interests include machine learning, audio, video, image, and text understanding, optimization, computer architecture and software for AI. ...

Computer Sciences

17 hours ago
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Construction begins 2016 for Hyperloop on five-mile stretch

Hyperloop construction will occur next year with the first full-scale track. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies announced it plans to start building a five-mile track in central California in 2016. Consider ...

Engineering

Mar 01, 2015
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Google looking at ways to rate websites based more on trustworthiness

A team of researchers at Google has been looking into ways to change the way links are retrieved by its famous search engine—instead of ranking them based on popularity, the researchers are looking into ...

Computer Sciences

Mar 02, 2015
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Never mind: Android L full-disk encryption by default not required

2014: Google says with Android L you don't even have to think about turning on encryption. 2015: With encryption for Android L, you have to, uh, think. Times change and so has Google regarding Android L encryption ...

Security

Mar 04, 2015
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Pleurobot is salamander-like robot with lifelike motion

A video showing "multimodal locomotion in a bioinspired robot" has been making the rounds, and the video demonstrates advances in robotics as scientific tools as well as potential robots for search and rescue ...

Robotics

Mar 04, 2015
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Fujitsu shows iris recognition system that unlocks phones

In the bid to come up with authentication solutions beyond passwords, fingerprint authentication from Qualcomm is making news, and so is Fujitsu's iris recognition, yet another potential authentication tech ...

Hardware

Mar 03, 2015
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Fingerprint tech from Qualcomm uses ultrasonic sound waves

Password-less authentication to protect user data—we have heard the call into the future from tech giants before and for good reason: Users are frustrated over having to remember numerous password combinations ...

Hardware

Mar 03, 2015
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Barclays to allow payments by using Twitter handles

The next chapter in banks moving into the digital age is a stretch beyond reminding customers over phone lines that they can also bank online. Barclays has launched Twitter payments through Pingit.

Internet

Feb 27, 2015
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Brain signals turn into drone commands in Lisbon presentation

Can we expect a time when aircraft will be directly controlled by the human brain? And what about mind-controlled drones? Imagine that, using an EEG (electroencephalogram) cap tracking neural activity, a ...

Hi Tech & Innovation

Feb 27, 2015
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Spotify deals with random shuffle and us mortals

How do we mortals perceive random sequences? An entry in the question-and-answer site Quora focused on a question involving a music-streaming service Spotify. That question signifies how we perceive what ...

Internet

Feb 26, 2015
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Research pair finds color a big factor in how much an image is shared on Pinterest

A pair of researchers, one with Yahoo Labs, the other Georgian Tech University, has found via analysis of data on the photo sharing site Pinterest, that the colors that dominate in an image can have an impact ...

Internet

Feb 26, 2015
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Smart bottles make use of printed sensor tags

You're looking at a commercial future where vendors will seek to leverage new technologies to track customer behavior, buying patterns, user patterns and to send out information realtime, up close, personal, ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Feb 26, 2015
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Pebble turns to crowdfunding (again) for latest smartwatch

Never mind that there are a number of smartwatch brands on the market and that competition is fierce. Never mind that the marketplace is getting crowded with brands in an increasingly competitive smartwatch ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Feb 26, 2015
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