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Researchers try Google approach to understanding photos

July 11, 2007 Carnegie Mellon researchers develop techniques that let computers automatically add or replace elements in a digital photo. TAGS: researcher, graduate student, digital photograph, professor, photograph, Google Inc., database

Virtual rootkits not a problem, say researchers

October 2, 2007 Hypervisor technology cannot be used to hide rootkits from detection, according to a study by Carnegie Mellon and Stanford researchers. TAGS: hypervisor, researcher, rootkit, Stanford, study, virtualization, detection

AOL apologizes for release of user search data

August 7, 2006 Search log information originally intended for use on new research site; company calls data posting a mistake. TAGS: information retrieval, Ari Schwartz, America Online Inc., researcher, Time Warner Inc.

A tenfold improvement in battery life?

January 15, 2008 Stanford researchers say silicon nanowires could help extend the life of a lithium ion battery for laptops from 4 hours to 40 hours. TAGS: silicon, lithium, researcher, battery, battery life, improvement, laptop computer

Microsoft shares source code with AIDS researchers

June 13, 2007 Researchers hope to use four specialized software tools to identify genetic patterns that could help development of HIV vaccine. TAGS: researcher, source code, vaccine, Microsoft Corp., virus

FedEx Kinko's payment card cracked

March 2, 2006 Anyone with some extra hardware and technical know-how could add value to the card, but FedEx says there's no risk. TAGS: Federal Express, researcher, payment, value, card, risk, security, code, video

Researcher launches Month of PHP Bugs

March 2, 2007 Initiative focuses on the widely used scripting language with the aim to improve security. TAGS: PHP, scripting language, researcher, project, security, vulnerability, bug

Can texting reveal who committed crimes?

August 11, 2006 Researchers study mobile-phone texting styles to show links between text linguistics and user IDs. TAGS: researcher, user-ID, text message, crime, mobile phone

RFID vulnerable to attacks, researchers say

April 13, 2006 Australian researchers say RFID tags can be disrupted by being bombarded with different radio frequencies. TAGS: RFID, RFID tag, tag, researcher, frequency, radio frequency, reader, attack, radio

Breaking into a laptop via Wi-Fi

August 2, 2006 Flaws in software that runs wireless-networking hardware could let attackers take over PCs, including Macs, Black Hat warns. TAGS: Black Hat, researcher, flaw, attack, attacker, Wi-Fi, threat, software company, Apple MacBook, laptop computer, Apple Computer, Intel, security, PC, video, operating system

Intel shows off 80-core processor

February 11, 2007 The chip unveiled at IDF works, but there are a lot of hurdles to overcome before an 80-core chip shows up in a living room. TAGS: transistor, memory chip, Intel, Intel x86, manufacturing, researcher, server, PC, operating system

Researchers take the blur out of shaky photos

August 9, 2006 An MIT researcher and others develop a technique that can restore some sharpness to photos blurred by camera shake. TAGS: researcher, product development, photograph, property, image, camera, path, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Systems Inc.

Researchers develop new 3D nanomaterial

August 22, 2006 Nanopaper shaped into three-dimensional forms ends what has been holding scientists back, researchers say. Photos: Pulp meets nanotech TAGS: pulp, nanotechnology, researcher, scientist, paper, 3D

U.K. researchers devise smart-card hack

February 6, 2007 Determined hackers can outwit the supposedly tamper-proof bank cards that use both a chip and a PIN. TAGS: terminal, researcher, criminal, restaurant, smart card, victim, transaction, Cambridge, bank, card, banking, attack, laptop computer, U.K., security

Researchers find new twist in bendy electronics

December 13, 2006 A new technique for manufacturing transistors may make mass producing flexible electronics much more feasible. TAGS: transistor, electrode, researcher, e-paper, polymer, manufacturing, electronics, mobility, method

Study: Billions of dollars spent on security

November 16, 2006 Large U.S. businesses will spend $61 billion on security by the end of this year, amounting to 7.3 percent of total IT budgets. TAGS: researcher, security

Chips promise to boost speech recognition

August 22, 2006 Carnegie Mellon University researchers are designing processors to solve the notoriously difficult computing problem. TAGS: speech recognition, FPGA, ASIC, researcher, power consumption

IBM researchers: Single molecule stores data

August 10, 2006 "Remarkable" results are reported from an organic switch that's 100 times smaller than silicon's finest. TAGS: molecule, researcher, nanotechnology, IBM Corp.

Microsoft shows off improved search

August 7, 2006 Microsoft scientists reveal new "3D" analyses and machine-learning algorithms for search at conference. TAGS: researcher, paper, algorithm, Internet search, search engine, scientist, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Web browser, Firefox, Google Inc.

Intel has more than chips on the brain

June 7, 2006 Researchers at the chipmaker are still attuned to boosting chip performance but are also investigating how people use their products. TAGS: researcher, Intel, chip company, power consumption, project, radio, image, notebook computer, PC
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