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UW team shatters long-range communication barrier for devices that consume almost no power

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Accelerating the mobile web: 'Vroom' software could double its speed

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Custom robots in a matter of minutes

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Computer scientists use music to track body movements

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New machine learning algorithms help to find victims of human trafficking

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Defeating cyberattacks on 3-D printers

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New techniques measure fairness and discrimination in software

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High-quality online video with less rebuffering

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How secure are your messages?

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No battery, no wire, no problem

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First battery-free cellphone makes calls by harvesting ambient power

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'Harder, better, faster, stronger'-tethered soft exosuit reduces metabolic cost of running

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Combination of features produces new Android vulnerability

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Researchers find computer code that allowed modern automobiles to defeat emissions tests

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RIT team creates high-speed internet lane for emergency situations

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New tools safeguard census data about where you live and work

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Under cyberattack: UH researchers look at how to catch a 'phisher'

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How NSF honors America's educators

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Experiments show that a few self-driving cars can dramatically improve traffic flow

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Researchers find new source of dangerous electrical instability in the heart

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Why children struggle to cross busy streets safely

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Partial fingerprint similarities may be sufficient to trick biometric security systems on smartphones

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Researchers find vulnerabilities in automated video analysis

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Predicting the interruptibility of mobile users

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Staying a heartbeat ahead of hackers

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Enabling connected cities and smart fabrics through FM signals

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UW security researchers show Google's anti-internet troll AI platform is easily deceived

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