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System Automatically Converts 2D Video to 3D

Nov. 4, 2015 — By exploiting the graphics-rendering software that powers sports video games, researchers have developed a system that automatically converts 2-D video of soccer games into ... read more

Professors Study Legal, Social Complexities of an Augmented Reality Future

Nov. 3, 2015 — Those designing coming augmented reality systems should make them adaptable to change, resistant to hacking and responsive to the needs of diverse users, according to a ... read more

New Computational Approach to Predicting Adverse Drug Reactions With Higher Confidence

Nov. 3, 2015 — A new integrated computational method helps predicting adverse drug reaction -- which are often lethal -- more reliably than with traditional ... read more

World’s First Lab-in-a-Briefcase

Oct. 30, 2015 — Academics hope to boost early detection rates of cancer in developing countries with their portable lab-in-a-briefcase that can operate even at high ... read more

New Technology Can Mine Data from Instagram to Monitor Teenage Drinking Patterns

Oct. 28, 2015 — Instagram could offer a novel way of monitoring the drinking habits of teenagers. Using photos and text from Instagram, a team of researchers has ... read more

Bridging the Human-Computer Interaction

Oct. 27, 2015 — With the goal of revolutionizing everyday interactions between humans and computers, researchers are developing new technologies for making computers recognize not just traditional commands, but also ... read more

HIV Care Could Save Lives and Billions of Dollars, Computer Model Predicts

Oct. 26, 2015 — A computer model predicts that strengthening a handful of efforts to keep people with HIV in lifetime care, along with more rigorous testing, would potentially avert a projected 752,000 new HIV ... read more

'Virtual Week' Brain Game Has Potential to Help Older Adults Remain Independent Longer

Oct. 28, 2015 — Just one month of training on a 'Virtual Week' computer brain game helps older adults significantly strengthen prospective memory -- a type of memory ... read more

Robotic Systems: How Sensorimotor Intelligence May Develop

Oct. 27, 2015 — Researchers propose a novel learning rule to explain the development of ... read more

Pupils Learn Poorly When Using Most Computer Programs

Oct. 26, 2015 — “Most digital learning tools used in schools are unsatisfactory and only test the knowledge the pupils already have”, says Björn Sjödén, who has reviewed a large number of computer programs ... read more

It's Now Legal To Hack Your Car's Many Computers

Western Digital Is Dropping $19B To Acquire SanDisk

Do External Drives Need To Be Ejected Before Removal?

Apple Found Guilty Of Using University Of Wisconsin Patent

Calcium-48's 'Neutron Skin' Thinner Than Previously Thought

Nov. 2, 2015 — Scientists used America's most powerful supercomputer, Titan, to compute the neutron distribution and related observables of calcium-48, an isotope with an atomic nucleus consisting of 20 ... read more

Rewrite of Onboard Memory Planned for NASA Mars Orbiter

Oct. 29, 2015 — Tables stored in flash memory aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) tell locations of Earth and the sun for the past 10 years, but not their locations next year. That needs to be ... read more

Tackling Big Data: Storage and Transfer

Oct. 29, 2015 — Where should Big Data be stored and shared in a cost-effective manner? How can it be most efficiently transferred across advanced data networks? How will researchers be interacting with the data and ... read more

Bright Idea for Lowlight Photography

Oct. 29, 2015 — Anyone who’s taken a picture of birthday candles being blown out or a selfie during a romantic candlelit dinner knows how disappointing it is when the photo comes out dark and grainy. But now a ... read more

Scalable Quantum Computer Design

Oct. 23, 2015 — Theoretical physicists have proposed a scalable quantum computer architecture. The new model overcomes fundamental limitations of programmability in current approaches that aim at solving real-world ... read more

Cyberattacks Studied Through the Lens of EEG and Eye Tracking

Oct. 23, 2015 — Researchers tested users’ abilities to detect malware and phishing attacks while measuring the neurophysiological behavior underlying these ... read more

Faster Optimization of Computer Algorithms

Oct. 23, 2015 — Computer programmers have developed a new 'cutting-plane' algorithm, a general-purpose algorithm for solving optimization problems. The algorithm improves on the running time of its most ... read more

Slow Emitters Transformed Into Fast Light Sources

Oct. 22, 2015 — Phosphors are efficient light emitters but they're not optimal for high-speed communications because they turn on and off slowly. Researchers have now found a way to modulate light from phosphor ... read more

3-D Map of the Brain

Oct. 22, 2015 — The animal brain is so complex, it would take a supercomputer and vast amounts of data to create a detailed 3-D model of the billions of neurons that power it. But computer scientists and a professor ... read more

New Report on Energy-Efficient Computing

Oct. 20, 2015 — A new American report outlines key factors limiting progress in computing -- particularly related to energy consumption -- and novel research that could overcome these ... read more

Surfing Water Molecules Could Hold Key to Fast, Controllable Water Transport

Oct. 19, 2015 — Scientists have identified a new and potentially faster way of moving molecules across the surfaces of certain materials. The team carried out sophisticated computer simulations of tiny droplets of ... read more

New Breakthroughs for Fundamental Problems in Computer Science

Oct. 19, 2015 — Academics have made breakthroughs on two fundamental problems in computer ... read more

A New Electronic Component to Replace Flash Storage

Oct. 19, 2015 — Researchers have created a new electronic component that could replace flash storage. This memristor could also be used one day in new types of ... read more

Backyard Photo of Lee Harvey Oswald Is Authentic, Study Shows

Oct. 19, 2015 — A new study confirms the authenticity of the famous backyard photo of Lee Harvey Oswald holding the same type of rifle used to assassinate President John F. ... read more

Think Again Before Tapping the Install Button for That App

Oct. 17, 2015 — Multitasking when using mobile devices creates stress and increases the potential for choosing unsafe apps, new research shows. A new study examined the conditions under which mobile device users are ... read more

Automating Big-Data Analysis

Oct. 16, 2015 — Researchers aim to take the human element out of big-data analysis, with a new system that not only searches for patterns but designs the feature set, too. To test the first prototype of their ... read more

Chemical Microdroplet Computers Are Easier to Teach Than to Design

Oct. 14, 2015 — Scientists have developed the concept of a simple chemical computer made of microdroplets capable of searching databases. Computer simulations, carried out on databases of malignant tumors, have ... read more

Flowing Toward Red Blood Cell Breakthroughs

Oct. 14, 2015 — A research team is using the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to simulate hundreds of millions of red blood cells in an attempt to develop better drug delivery ... read more

Think Twice About Android Root

Oct. 13, 2015 — In recent years the practice of Android rooting, that is the process of allowing an Android phone or tablet to bypass restrictions set by carriers, operating systems or hardware manufacturers, has ... read more

Is Your Digital Information More at Risk Today Than It Was Ten Years Ago?

Oct. 13, 2015 — Researchers say that cybersecurity breeches are not happening more frequently than they did a decade ago. And these data breaches in general are not growing in ... read more

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