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Just How Hackable Is Your Plane?
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Just How Hackable Is Your Plane?

Chris Roberts knows a lot about hacking planes. But not because he's trying to make them fall out of the sky.

Highly Conductive Germanium Nanowires Made by a Simple, One-Step Process
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Highly Conductive Germanium Nanowires Made by a Simple, One-Step Process

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have deposited germanium nanowires on indium tin oxide substrate using a simple, one-step process...

How a Computer Can Help Your Doctor Better Diagnose Cancer
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How a Computer Can Help Your Doctor Better Diagnose Cancer

A research team has developed a computational model that aims to automatically suggest cancer diagnoses by learning from thousands of data points from past pathology...

Researchers Test Brain Activity to Identify Cybersecurity Threats
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Researchers Test Brain Activity to Identify Cybersecurity Threats

Iowa State University researchers measured brain activity to identify what might motivate an employee to violate company policy and sell or trade sensitive information...

Statcast Arrives, Offering Way to Quantify Nearly Every Move in Game
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Statcast Arrives, Offering Way to Quantify Nearly Every Move in Game

Which outfielders take the most efficient routes to a fly ball? Which pitcher's curveball has the highest spin rate? Which batter has the fastest speed to first...

Cloud Security Reaches Silicon
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Cloud Security Reaches Silicon

MIT researchers have implemented in silicon a system for defending against memory-access attacks.

Homeland Security Is Laying Roots in Silicon Valley, and You Might Not Like Its Reasons
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Homeland Security Is Laying Roots in Silicon Valley, and You Might Not Like Its Reasons

The Department of Homeland Security plans to open an office in California's Silicon Valley to recruit talent from the technology sector and build relationships...

Materials Scientists Put New Spin on Computing Memory
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Materials Scientists Put New Spin on Computing Memory

A group of researchers from Drexel University is trying to make computer memories smaller, denser, and more energy conscious with help from a new class of materials...

Security Professionals Stymied By Outdated Visualization Tools
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Security Professionals Stymied By Outdated Visualization Tools

Earlier this year, the film Blackhat got high marks for realistic scenes in which hackers and information security specialists work at their computers to hunt down...

How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency
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How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency

Every Morning, Kim Casipong strolls past barbed wire, six dogs, and a watchman in order to get to her job in a pink apartment building decorated with ornate stonework...

Machine Dreams
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Machine Dreams

There is a shrine inside Hewlett-Packard's headquarters in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Iowa State Developing Computer Security Literacy Curriculum
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Iowa State Developing Computer Security Literacy Curriculum

Iowa State University researchers are developing a computer security literacy curriculum designed for middle school and high school students.

Revamped E-Paper Could Make Large Displays Like Whiteboards
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Revamped E-Paper Could Make Large Displays Like Whiteboards

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have revamped an old e-paper concept to make an inexpensive handwriting-enabled e-paper well suited to large displays...

How Factory Workers Learned to Love Their Robot Colleagues
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How Factory Workers Learned to Love Their Robot Colleagues

Workers at a Navistar truck plant in Ohio weren't eager to make friends when a new colleague showed up on the factory floor nearly 40 years ago.

Technology That Prods You to Take Action, Not Just Collect Data
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Technology That Prods You to Take Action, Not Just Collect Data

The bookshelves in Natasha Dow Schüll’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are punctuated here and there with kitchen timers: a windup orange plastic...

Better Battery Imaging Paves Way for Renewable Energy Future
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Better Battery Imaging Paves Way for Renewable Energy Future

Researchers have developed an X-ray imaging technique to visualize and study the electrochemical reactions in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries which could improve...

These Robots Serve ­p Cocktails, but Can They Tell If You've Drunk Too Much?
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These Robots Serve ­p Cocktails, but Can They Tell If You've Drunk Too Much?

Some robots assemble cars or iPhones. Others vacuum floors or roam Amazon.com warehouses.

Science and Engineering Graduate School Enrollment Increases
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Science and Engineering Graduate School Enrollment Increases

The number of full-time graduate students enrolled in science and engineering programs in the United States rose by 2.4 percent in 2013, due largely to a 7.9 percent...

Climate Scientists Join Search For Alien Earths
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Climate Scientists Join Search For Alien Earths

The hunt for life beyond the Solar System is gaining new partners: NASA climatologists.

Universities Collaborate on Unmanned Aerial Systems Studies
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Universities Collaborate on Unmanned Aerial Systems Studies

Wichita State University and Kansas State University are working together with the Federal Aviation Administration to minimize the risk associated with operating...
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