Researchers are hailing the new work as a watershed moment for cryptography As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by... Read more
For about $300 in equipment costs, anyone can produce working electrical circuits in the 60 seconds it takes to print them. Researchers from Georgia Tech, the University of Tokyo a... Read more
Basketball, soccer, baseball–these are all fine sports. But wouldn’t they be even more fun if they could be released from the boring, been-there-done-that laws of physics? Th... Read more
Carnegie Mellon, Microsoft Researchers Demonstrate Internal Tagging Technique for 3D-Printed Objects
The age of 3D printing, when every object so created can be personalized, will increase the need for tags to keep track of everything. Happily, the same 3D printing process used to... Read more
In stunning color, new biodiversity research from North Carolina State University maps out priority areas worldwide that hold the key to protecting vulnerable species and focusing... Read more
Similar predictions could be made from all manner of digital data, with this kind of secondary ‘inference’ made with remarkable accuracy Michal Kosinski Research shows that intimat... Read more
Pressure-sensing floor adds new dimension to the smart home Unlike traditional solutions based on cameras, GravitySpace reconstructs scene data from a pressure-sensing floor. While... Read more
An algorithm for speech-based emotion classification If you think having your phone identify the nearest bus stop is cool, wait until it identifies your mood. New research by a tea... Read more
Microsoft’s speech recognizer can correctly identify 86 to 88 percent of the words in arbitrary speech, Rashid said. Ever wondered what you’d sound like if you were flu... Read more
Forget the TV remote and the games controller, now you can control anything from your mobile phone to the television with just a wave of your hand. Researchers at Newcastle Univers... Read more
Software could make it easier to see in difficult driving conditions A prototype headlight system can detect raindrops or snow streaks and “dis-illuminate” them, thereb... Read more
The new technology uses the Doppler effect Not one to be outdone by Disney’s any-surface touch interface, Microsoft Research, working with the University of Washington, has develop... Read more
In a voice that sounds like yours Research software from Microsoft synthesizes speech in a foreign language, but in a voice that sounds like yours. Researchers at Microsoft have ma... Read more