The Internet is awash in user generated content (UGC)—from blogs, reviews, and Q&As, to wikis, tweets, and Facebook posts. And let's not forget photo- and video-sharing sites: every second, one hour of video is uploaded ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 27, 2015
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Engineers have spent decades trying to build a significantly better battery for laptop and tablet computers.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 5, 2015
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Web browsing is one of the core applications on smartphones. After all, who hasn't checked Facebook or watched the latest news—or amusing cat videos—on their mobile phone? However, mobile browsers on smartphones are primarily ...
Software
Sep 18, 2015
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Many people living in the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong have a new habit: they check the air pollution index before venturing outside. Air quality has deteriorated rapidly in China, with nitrogen dioxide and particulate ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 14, 2015
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Microsoft has released a new computer science curriculum designed for teens who may not have expressed much interest in computer programming – and teachers who don't necessarily have any background in the field, either.
Software
Sep 2, 2015
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Only a few years ago, it would have seemed improbable to assume that a piece of technology could quickly and accurately understand most of what you say – let alone translate it into another language.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 7, 2015
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If you're surfing the web and you come across a photo of the Mariners' Felix Hernandez on the pitchers' mound at Safeco Field, chances are you'll quickly interpret that you are looking at a picture of a baseball player on ...
Computer Sciences
May 29, 2015
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Microsoft researchers have created a new system that keeps data stored in the cloud safe from prying eyes or malicious players even when it is being accessed to make calculations.
Computer Sciences
May 19, 2015
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In today's high-productivity computing environments that process dizzying amounts of data each millisecond, a research project named for "a trillion events per day" may seem relatively ordinary.
Computer Sciences
Jan 28, 2015
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Halloween 2013 brought real terror to an Austin, Texas, neighborhood, when a flash flood killed four residents and damaged roughly 1,200 homes. Following torrential rains, Onion Creek swept over its banks and inundated the ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 19, 2014
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