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Learn a Language While You Text
An MIT graduate student's "WaitChatter" app teaches vocabulary during moments in between text and instant-message replies.
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Passive Cooling System for Processors Could Save U.S. $6.3 Billion a Year
A patented passive cooling system for computer processors developed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville could save U.S. consumers more than $6.3 billion...
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Smartphones Hit the Road for Distracted-Driving Research
Research built custom, smartphone-based driving monitors to record the behavior of teens and seniors, the two groups most likely to be involved in motor-vehicle...
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Technology Turns Gestures Into Smartphone Security Component
Technology turns user's gestures into a smartphone's strongest security component.
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Researchers Develop Process for Making Sturdy Electrical Cellulose Fibers
A team of researchers at The University of Alabama have developed a process for making sturdier conductive fibers and polymer composites.
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Game-Like CAPTCHA Lets Computers Know You Are Human
A team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is investigating security and usability of next-generation CAPTCHAs based on simple computer games.
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Google Grant Broadens Reach of CS Course for High-School Teachers
University of Alabama professor of computer science Jeff Gray will lead a free, online course this summer to train high-school teachers interested in broadening...
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How Do We Clean Up the Junkyard Orbiting Earth?
The biggest-sized junkyard in the world orbits the Earth, and it's time to get active about reducing it, says Tom Percy, a University of Alabama in Huntsville...
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New Search Engine Delivers Content Matched to Student Ability
An Internet search engine developed specifically for schools is being tested as a way to increase reading abilities in challenged students and help motivate intellectual...
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Researchers Find New Channels to Trigger Mobile Malware
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have uncovered new hard-to-detect methods that criminals may use to trigger mobile device malware. Such attacks...
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Company Will ID Source and Nature of Cyber Threats
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has launched Malcovery, an intelligence company that uses patented forensic technology to identify the source and nature...
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UAVs Considered for Campus Security Role
With campus safety and security in mind, engineering students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville are working with the campus police department to perfect...
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Model Allows Engineers to Test Fuel Systems on Computers
Engineers will be able to design better fuel systems for everything from motorcycles to rockets faster and more inexpensively because of a mathematical fuels model...
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Social Media Changing Collaborative Research
Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville are using a collaboration portal designed to encourage collaborative "open science" by providing scientists...
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Glove Keyboard May Alter Use of Devices with One Hand
Students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have designed a tool that could create new ways to interact with electronic devices using just one hand. It's...
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System Improves Mobile Payment Security, Protects Personal Info
A security mechanism developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham will eliminate the security weaknesses of Near Field Communication and help prevent theft...
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Software Helps FBI Crack International Cybercrime Case
Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham helped the FBI and NASA's Office of Inspector General identify seven cybercriminals accused of hacking...
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