When searching for basketball videos online, a long list of Web sites appears, which may contain a picture or a word describing a basketball. But what if the computer could search inside videos for a basketball? Researchers are developing software that would enable computers to search inside videos, detect humans and specific objects, and perform other video analysis tasks.
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Service-centric software engineering is the latest paradigm in computing, and researchers have developed a platform they believe will launch the concept into the business world.
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Computer scientists are using Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to transform a cell phone into a flexible data-collection tool. Their free suite of tools, named Open Data Kit, is already used by organizations around the world that need inexpensive ways to gather information in areas with little infrastructure.
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New technologies may change our lives for the better, but sometimes they have risks. Communicating those benefits and risks to the public, and developing regulations to deal with them, can be difficult -- particularly if there's already public opposition to the technology.

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Counting down the hours until payday? You're not alone. About six in 10 workers report they always or usually live paycheck to paycheck just to make ends meet. It was 49% last year, 43% in 2007. Thirty percent of workers with salaries of $100,000 or more report that they too live paycheck to paycheck, versus 21% in 2008.



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An innovative new knowledge management concept has the potential to revolutionize the way government administrators work. The SAKE research project was established to find a solution to the information overload facing many public administrators, particularly in newer European Union Member States, where local and national governments are rapidly updating legislation and processes in line with their changing economies and EU expectations.

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Nine previously unknown species of worms were found hiding out on whale cadavers deep in the ocean, where the worms were feasting on bone-munching bacteria.



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Social-publishing site Scribd is accused of egregious copyright infringement by lawyers defending Jammie Thomas-Rasset against the music industry. They call it "YouTube for documents."

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Intel and Apple, future rivals?

As Intel readies its most potent chip yet for small devices, Apple is already a competitor.

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Microsoft has decided it won't patch Windows XP for a pair of bugs it quashed last week in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.



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Researchers say that "teachable software" designed to mimic the human brain may help them diagnose cardiac infections without an invasive exam.

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Reports, news and reviews, providing practical, hands-on information for Linux professionals.



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The Netbook is not going away. It simply has too much marketing momentum. Not to mention that consumers like the price.

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Google also announced growth of 400% in the number of students using Google Apps on campus.



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"Geeks are smart and creative, but they are also egocentric, antisocial, managerially and business-challenged, victim-prone, bullheaded and credit-whoring. To overcome these intractable behavioral deficits you must do X, Y and Z."



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Dell is now shipping Ubuntu 9.04 on its laptops and netbooks, and later this week it will start selling its new Ubuntu 9.04-powered desktop.



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In a move to assuage European publishers' concerns over book digitization, Google on Monday said European books still listed as commercially available will not be included in its online registry of orphaned and out-of-print works--unless rights holders give their express authorization.



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DirecTV and Verizon have app stores. Other cable, satellite and phone companies are working on new technology, but the industry is still wrestling with many questions.



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Inventors and engineers love a prize. Dangle a big enough carrot in front of them and you’re likely to get results. The goal of the competition is to successfully fly the first human powered helicopter to achieve an altitude of at least three meters during a hover lasting 60 seconds.



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IBM's 8-core POWER7 crams an amazing amount of hardware into about half the space of the competition. Its secret is that its large shared cache is made of DRAM, and not the less-dense SRAM that processors normally use.



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IBM's 8-core POWER7 crams an amazing amount of hardware into about half the space of the competition. Its secret is that its large shared cache is made of DRAM, and not the less-dense SRAM that processors normally use.



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A computer science student has created a new Facebook application that uses the social networking website for monitoring home energy consumption. The WattsUp application will also allow people to assess their carbon dioxide emissions.

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