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Automating Infrastructure and Operations Management with VMware
With VMware, virtualization tools come with a management system built in. Check out this webcast to learn more.
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'Block reasoning' technique improves computer vision
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have devised a method that enables computers to better understand an image by making assumptions about the physical constraints of the scene.
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Intel chooses MIT as big data research center
Intel sees potential in big data, but it needs help to exploit it.
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Yuchun Lee's journey from card counter to IBM's social media guru
The man in charge of IBM's effort to help chief marketing officers do their jobs learned how to take a chance while "Bringing Down the House" in Las Vegas.
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Cloud meets hardware: The inevitable merger
The evidence is piling up: Hardware systems will increasingly work in tandem with the cloud.
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Sex Tech: Reddit vs. Romney, Sex Addiction, Spankable Robot, Tumblr Sued
Tumblr sued by Perfect 10, Reddit vs. Mitt Romney, Japanese robot butt for spanking, no science for sex addiction.
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Israeli Institute for National Security Studies compromised, serving Poison Ivy DIY malware
The web site of the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) has been compromised, and is currently serving client-side exploits and malware to its visitors.
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Sensing systems for robots could help blind navigate
Parisian researchers have developed a 3D navigation system for the blind using a pair of glasses equipped with cameras and sensors like those used in robot exploration.
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iRobot's military bots get smarter and more agile (photos)
A look inside iRobot's workshop to build robots able to get home on their own, establish a mesh network, and pick up things without destroying them.
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iRobot's Ava: She's got the touch (photos)
Meet Ava, iRobot's prototype robot that can autonomously navigate a room and enable a videoconference with her tablet user interface.
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Inventing the future of digital media at MIT (photos)
The famed MIT Media Lab is a hotbed of ideas on how life is becoming more and more digital and how people will interact with their digitized surroundings in new ways.
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MIT's DIY wooden cell phone (photos)
MIT's Media Lab set out to use open-source design and readily available materials to make a cell phone that easy to customize. The result is somehow appealing to all aesthetics.
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Swarms of robots to mine space (photos)
Planetary Resources plans to harvest water and other valuable natural resources from near-by asteroids.
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Teradata and SAS partner on analytics appliance
Two lions of BI have allied, bringing analytics into the parallel processing, in-memory, appliance-based fast track.
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Sex Tech: IsAnyoneUp, Robot Prostitutes, Dating Spreadsheet Disaster
Revenge porn site becomes anti-bullying site, a dating spreadsheet goes viral, UK's largest abortion provider hacked, Kink sues a tube site and more.
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One Laptop per Child: Disappointing results?
Is the One Laptop per Child scheme producing the results we expected?
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Navy gets on board with robots (photos)
The Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research signals the Navy's desire to speed up development of autonomous robots with a testing lab that simulates a range of natural environments.
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Rethinking the robot through history (images)
The early days of automatons and robots were often viewed as mechanized humans, but today's robots come in a wide variety of shapes and address a growing number of very specialized tasks.
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Programmable 'smart sand' can assume any shape
MIT researchers are developing small magnetic cubes that can communicate with each other to auto-duplicate objects in a "sand box" using a subtractive production algorithm.
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2012's top ten tech. April Fools' Day stories
There were some great April Fools' Day tech. stories this year, The grand champion this year though was a political blog post claiming that Mitt Romney had dropped out the Presidential race......
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Solar goes 3D in MIT research project
By designing solar photovoltaic panels into various tower configurations, researchers believe they can create a more predictable source of power over the entire year -- even on cloudy days.
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