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Search Engines Can Sway Undecided Voters

New research uncovers “the search engine effect” and its potential to influence election outcomes

Jobs holds up an iPhone 4 at a tech conference in 2010.

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Steve Jobs is About to Get His Own Opera

But will it include a singing Woz?

A screenshot of the Tone Analyzer at work

IBM’s Tone Analyzer Could Save You From Sending That Awkward Email

The new service, part of IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence system, scans emails for emotions like cheerfulness or negativity

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How Emojis Could Help People With Food Allergies

Bread emoji. Disappointed face emoji.

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The NSA Has a Summer Camp for Cyberspies

43 camps nationwide teach teens white hat hacking skills

Brain-to-brain interfaces may soon be a therapeutic technique.

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Linking Multiple Minds Could Help Damaged Brains Heal

Monkeys and rats hooked up as “brainets” may lead to innovative treatments for Parkinson’s, paralysis and more

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This Computer Runs on Water

A new class of computers takes advantage of the physical properties of water

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Researchers Are Training Robots Using Minecraft

The popular game helps robots learn real-world skills

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Recycling Company Seeking Woman Who Dumped $200,000 Apple I Computer

The machine was one of just 200 assembled by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the 1970s

IBM Watson Makes Things Elementary, Indeed

The cognitive computing system makes for an ideal sidekick—in museums, kitchens, hospitals and classrooms

Claude Monet’s Water Lilies at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, France

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Computers Are Learning About Art Faster than Art Historians

An algorithm took just a few months to draw connections between artists that scholars have been working on for years

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Laptops of the Future May Not Have Space Bars

A recent Google patent points to a time when trackpads replace the trusty key

This track pad fits on your thumbnail, and can be customized with nail stickers.

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This Tiny Trackpad Fits on a Fingernail

But why would you actually want one?

MIT Researchers Think They Can Spot Early Signs of Parkinson’s in the Way People Type

By monitoring how long we hold down keystrokes, it may be possible to detect neurological diseases years before other symptoms appear

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Meet Your New Favorite Font

Haas Unica, Helvetica’s long-lost sibling, is back after 30 years in obscurity

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High Schoolers Might Code Rather Than Speak French

But proponents of foreign language schooling aren’t pleased

Using millions of images and machine learning, Orbital Insight is able to estimate global oil surplus, weeks ahead of traditional estimates, by analyzing the shadows on the floating lids of oil tanks.

A Startup Wants to Track Everything From Shoppers to Corn Yields Using Satellite Imagery

Orbital Insight, founded by a NASA and Google veteran, is quick to predict crop failures and estimate the current global oil surplus

The great Charles Dickens may one day come to the aid of the creators of bad password.

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Trouble Remembering Passwords? Charles Dickens May Be Able Help

A programmer has devised a creative “password generation scheme” using A Tale of Two Cities

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Could Your Browser Make You a Better Employee?

The answer could be yes…if you use Firefox or Chrome

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