Can you tell the difference between the two breeds of corgis? If you're like many, you probably are barely even aware that such dogs exist, let alone the fact that there are two—and only two—kinds of corgis. Add the detail ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 16, 2014
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As do other recreational pilots, Ashish Kapoor learned during flight training that he shouldn't count on the accuracy of wind forecasts. The best available forecasts in the United States—from the federal government's Winds ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 4, 2014
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When violence related to Mexico's drug war erupted in 2006, Andrés Monroy-Hernández kept in close touch with friends and relatives in the north of the country, where he is from and where much of the violence was concentrated. ...
Software
Apr 29, 2014
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Visiting Eric Horvitz at Microsoft Research headquarters in Redmond, Wash., is a full-service experience.
Robotics
Apr 9, 2014
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"Makes HDTV look low-res."
Software
Jan 8, 2014
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You could think of it as a brainteaser: Create a sequence of eight or more characters that includes at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, a digit, and a symbol, that doesn't contain any words in English, and ...
Security
Dec 6, 2013
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Location sensing has become ubiquitous—it's present every time you turn on your smartphone or engage your car's navigation system. It's also become critical to a variety of outdoors and remote research applications, such ...
Engineering
Dec 11, 2012
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Can scientists predict what happens when they introduce a change into a living system—for example, if they change the structure of a gene or administer a drug? Just as changing one letter can completely change the meaning ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 30, 2012
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The number one United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to eliminate poverty, leaving nobody behind. Researchers in the United Kingdom are harnessing the large-scale data-processing power of Microsoft Azure to map the ...
Other
Sep 29, 2017
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Over the last decade, computer scientists have harnessed crowds of Internet users to solve tasks that are notoriously difficult to crack with computers alone, such as determining whether an image contains a tree, rating the ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 2, 2016
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