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Flipperbot Reveals Principles of Motion
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Flipperbot Reveals Principles of Motion

Researchers studied sea turtles and a robot with flippers, called FlipperBot, to learn principles for how both robots and turtles move on granular surfaces such...

A Digital Eye to Watch Soccer's Trouble Spots
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A Digital Eye to Watch Soccer's Trouble Spots

The organization at the heart of international soccer’s technological advancement is located in a generic two-story building just off the A4 highway here, a few...

Computer Model Solves Sandia's Steel Problem
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Computer Model Solves Sandia's Steel Problem

Sandia National Laboratories researchers Lisa Deibler and Arthur Brown had a ready-made problem for their computer modeling work when they were looking to improve...

The $12 Gongkai Phone
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The $12 Gongkai Phone

How cheap can you make a phone?

Expenses Mount For App Launches
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Expenses Mount For App Launches

Mobile-game maker ZeptoLab UK on Thursday released "Cut the Rope: Time Travel," its first major title in the popular "Cut the Rope" series since 2011.

Struggling Cities, From Detroit to New Orleans, See Startups as Saviors
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Struggling Cities, From Detroit to New Orleans, See Startups as Saviors

After graduating from the University of Michigan, Greg Schwartz worked in New York at Warner Music Group as director of digital business.

How Wireless Carriers Are Monetizing Your Movements
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How Wireless Carriers Are Monetizing Your Movements

Wireless operators have access to an unprecedented volume of information about users' real-world activities, but for years these massive data troves were put to...

Geer, Thieme: Specialization and Institutionalization Have Transformed Security
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Geer, Thieme: Specialization and Institutionalization Have Transformed Security

Two elders of information security came to Source Boston 2013 Wednesday morning to encourage the next generation to grab the torch from them and to urge great caution...

Is High-Tech Security at Public Events Counterproductive?
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Is High-Tech Security at Public Events Counterproductive?

Which is more intrusive: security screening and metal detectors every few blocks, or a drone flying high above it taking video of every little thing you do?

India, Long the Home of Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips
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India, Long the Home of Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips

The government of India, home to many of the world’s leading software outsourcing companies, wants to replicate that success by creating a homegrown industry for...

5 New Things to Know About Google Glass
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5 New Things to Know About Google Glass

Google is pulling back the curtain a bit more on Google Glass, the high-tech spectacles with an eye-mounted display for accessing the Internet.

Shortage of Skilled People Could Hamper Military's Offensive Security Capabilities
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Shortage of Skilled People Could Hamper Military's Offensive Security Capabilities

The U.S. military has been attempting to build up the offensive cybersecurity capabilities in its various services for several years now, but is running into the...

How New Military Technologies Can Help Prevent the Next Boston or Newtown
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How New Military Technologies Can Help Prevent the Next Boston or Newtown

This week, it's bombs. In December, it was guns.

Intel Tries to Secure Its Footing Beyond Pcs
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Intel Tries to Secure Its Footing Beyond Pcs

For the last several months, Andy Bryant, the chairman of Intel, has been trying to put steel in the backs of the company's employees.

How Pixar ­sed Moore's Law to Predict the Future
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How Pixar ­sed Moore's Law to Predict the Future

Whether you call it a data-driven prediction or think of it as a self-fulfilling prophecy, Moore's Law has been going strong.

Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun
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Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun

Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...

'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley
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'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley

It doesn't look like much.

The PC Inside Your Phone: A Guide to the System-on-a-Chip
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The PC Inside Your Phone: A Guide to the System-on-a-Chip

A desktop PC used to need a lot of different chips to make it work.

Study Will Focus on Secondary Use of Electric Vehicle Batteries
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Study Will Focus on Secondary Use of Electric Vehicle Batteries

Automotive batteries may not have hit the end of the road once they've finished powering electric vehicles. Researcyers are studying the feasibility of using them...

Computer Security Legend Mudge Leaves DARPA For Google Job
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Computer Security Legend Mudge Leaves DARPA For Google Job

Peter Zatko, the computer hacking expert better known by the handle Mudge, says he’s leaving his job as a program manager at DARPA to join Google.
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