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Hacker Says Phone App Could Hijack Plane
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Hacker Says Phone App Could Hijack Plane

Could this be the deadliest smartphone app ever?

How Technology Is Slowly Developing Its Sense of Smell
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How Technology Is Slowly Developing Its Sense of Smell

Last week I attended what was, I think it is fair to say, the oddest conference I have been to yet. It was the first world congress of the Digital Olfaction Society...

Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past
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Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past

In Issac Asimov's classic science fiction saga Foundation, mathematics professor Hari Seldon predicts the future using what he calls psychohistory.

Immigration and the Knowledge Economy
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Immigration and the Knowledge Economy

Earlier this year I started teaching a class on entrepreneurship at an after-school program in my community.

Deputy Minister: No 'time Machine' Invention Registered in Iran
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Deputy Minister: No 'time Machine' Invention Registered in Iran

Iran's Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Mehdinejad Nouri dismissed the claims raised by an Iranian inventor who says he has registered...

Facebook Fatigue Among Teens Should Freak Out Marketers
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Facebook Fatigue Among Teens Should Freak Out Marketers

Uh oh. Teens are growing tired of Facebook and YouTube, new research shows, a falling-out that has the potential to trigger a wide-ranging effect on retail, fashion...

The Coming Golden Age For Mobile-Game Developers
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The Coming Golden Age For Mobile-Game Developers

Do you like video games? More to the point, do you like developing games and making money? Then here's some great news: The gaming boom that's been underway for...

Building a Better Tech School
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Building a Better Tech School

If all the hopes and hype are warranted, a nondescript third-floor loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan offers a glimpse of the future, for New York City...

Inside the App Culture
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Inside the App Culture

I wouldn't say I have my finger, or any body part, on the pulse of the tech scene. Most of my knowledge of New York City's Internet start-up and mobile-app culture...

Crash Course: Training the Brain of a Driverless Car
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Crash Course: Training the Brain of a Driverless Car

Early attempts at driverless cars have had little difficulty gathering the loads of data required to operate autonomously.

Nasa Associate Administrator on Asteroid Initiative
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Nasa Associate Administrator on Asteroid Initiative

"The mission to find, capture and redirect an asteroid robotically, and then visit it with astronauts to study it and return samples takes advantage of expertise...

What Thousands of Job Vacancies Say About Microsoft
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What Thousands of Job Vacancies Say About Microsoft

Analysts at Griffin Securities conducted a handy piece of research on Microsoft recently: scanning the company's careers websites and analyzing the details of the...

Autonomous Modular Datacenter Takes to the Sea
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Autonomous Modular Datacenter Takes to the Sea

Not every datacenter is comprised of a large building stuff full of computers. In the case of Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider SV3, the datacenter is an autonomous...

Robot Hot Among Surgeons But Fda Taking Fresh Look
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Robot Hot Among Surgeons But Fda Taking Fresh Look

The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year—triple...

Cyber Education Key to Security
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Cyber Education Key to Security

Today, cyberspace is woven into the fabric of our daily lives.

Tracking Workers' Every Move Can Boost Productivity—and Stress
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Tracking Workers' Every Move Can Boost Productivity—and Stress

Phil Richards used to like his job driving a forklift in a produce and meat warehouse. He took pride in steering a case of beef with precision.

U.S. Air Force Designates Six Cybertools As Weapons
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U.S. Air Force Designates Six Cybertools As Weapons

Six cybertools have been designated as weapons by the U.S. Air Force, allowing the programs to better compete for increasingly scarce Pentagon funding, an Air Force...

Fake Twitter Followers Become Multimillion-Dollar Business
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Fake Twitter Followers Become Multimillion-Dollar Business

Far from slowing, the market for fake Twitter followers seems to be taking off.

'transient Electronics' Disappear When No Longer Needed
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'transient Electronics' Disappear When No Longer Needed

Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have made key advances toward practical uses of tiny, biocompatible electronic devices that could be...

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Technique Finds Software Bugs in Surgical Robots And Helps Developers Fix Flaws, Ensure Safety

Surgical robots could make some types of surgery safer and more effective, but proving that the software controlling these machines works as intended is problematic...
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