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'Mixed reality' human helps medical students learn to do intimate exams

Medicine & Health / Other

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China's Lenovo to build research centre in Taiwan: report

Technology / Business

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Chinese high-tech giant Lenovo plans to set up a research and development centre in Taiwan as the firm tries to take advantage of warming cross-strait ties, a report said Tuesday.


White House picks new cyber coordinator

Technology / Internet

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(AP) -- The White House has tapped a corporate cyber security expert and former Bush administration official to lead the effort to shore up the country's computer networks and better coordinate with companies that operate ...


Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks

Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks

Other Sciences / Economics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a result that may have implications for financial regulation, researchers from computer science and economics have revealed potentially impenetrable problems with the pricing of financial ...


Swimming Bacteria Could Become Model for Micromachines

Swimming Bacteria Could Become Model for Micromachines

Physics / General Physics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn researchers say Spiroplasma's propulsion style is optimal for converting energy into motion.


Computer identifies authentic Van Gogh

Computer identifies authentic Van Gogh

Technology / Computer Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dutch researcher Igor Berezhnoy has developed computer algorithms to support art historians and other art experts in their visual assessment of paintings. His digital technology is capable ...


'Invisible bracelet' for emergency health alerts?

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis - and which can immediately text-message ...


Cornellians build computer climate-change model

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 20 hours ago | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are contributing to a new model of climate change that may give more accurate predictions of the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in Earth's future.


How could Santa know if you've been good or bad?

How could Santa know if you've been good or bad?

Technology / Computer Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- By using technology to detect guilty expressions, of course. CSIRO is using automated expression recognition technology to tell whether someone is in pain and, according to computer scientist, ...


Putting the squeeze on data

Putting the squeeze on data

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data compression is one of the fundamental research areas in computer science, letting information systems do more with less. It’s the reason the iPod nano can hold thousands of songs instead ...


Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time

Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech synthesizer. The "thought-to-speech" ...



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