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  Tracking Gunfire With a Smartphone

  April 25, 2013 — A team of computer engineers has developed an inexpensive hardware module and related software that can transform an Android smartphone into a simple shooter location ... > full story
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  Scientists Map All Possible Drug-Like Chemical Compounds: Library of Millions of Small, Carbon-Based Molecules Chemists Might Synthesize

  April 22, 2013 — Drug developers may have a new tool to search for more effective medications and new materials. It's a computer algorithm that can model and catalog the entire set of lightweight, carbon-containing ... > full story
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  Honor Among (Credit Card) Thieves?

  April 22, 2013 — A criminologist dug into the seamy underbelly of online credit card theft and uncovered a surprisingly sophisticated network of crooks that is unique in the cybercrime ... > full story
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  New Algorithm Helps Evaluate, Rank Scientific Literature

  April 18, 2013 — Keeping up with current scientific literature is a daunting task, considering that hundreds to thousands of papers are published each day. Now researchers have developed a computer program to help ... > full story
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  Security Holes in Smartphone Apps

  April 17, 2013 — Popular texting, messaging and microblog apps developed for the Android smartphone have security flaws that could expose private information or allow forged fraudulent messages to be posted, ... > full story
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  'Survival of the Fittest' Now Applies to Computers: Surprising Similarities Found Between Genetic and Computer Codes

  April 16, 2013 — "Survival of the fittest" originally referred to natural selection in biological systems, but new research shows that this evolutionary theory also applies to technological ... > full story
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  Researchers Devise X-Ray Approach to Track Surgical Devices, Minimize Radiation Exposure

  April 16, 2013 — Researchers have developed a new tool to help surgeons use X-rays to track devices used in "minimally invasive" surgical procedures while also limiting the patient's exposure to radiation from the ... > full story
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  Social Media Can Support Healthiness of Older People

  April 15, 2013 — The use of social media by older people can offer valuable additional support in cases of sickness and diseases, new research has ... > full story
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  New Software Alleviates Wireless Traffic

  April 11, 2013 — The explosive popularity of wireless devices —- from WiFi laptops to Bluetooth headsets to ZigBee sensor nodes —- is increasingly clogging the airwaves, resulting in dropped calls, wasted ... > full story
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  Computer Scientists Develop Video Game That Teaches How to Program in Java

  April 8, 2013 — Computer scientists have developed an immersive, first-person player video game designed to teach students in elementary to high school how to program in Java, one of the most common programming ... > full story

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