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What if you could talk to anyone, regardless of the language they spoke?

New research uses a mobile phone’s ability to sense how you are gripping the device, as well as when and where the fingers are approaching it, to adapt interfaces on the fly.

Teachers in conventional classrooms often ask learners to express themselves and show their thought processes by speaking out loud, drawing on a whiteboard, or even using physical objects.

We can touch things, and our senses tell us when our hands are touching something.

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The first question we computer scientists ask when facing a new algorithmic challenge is: is it NP-hard, or is it in P?

Bullets are fired along the real line each second with independent uniformly random speeds from [0,1]. When two bullets collide they mutually annihilate.

Software is eating the world.' This statement by Marc Andreessen in a Wall Street Journal op-ed highlights the fact that software has become the backbone of countless major businesses, a trend that