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Frequency Filter Could Advance Terahertz Data Transmission
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Frequency Filter Could Advance Terahertz Data Transmission

University of Utah engineers have designed filters capable of separating different frequencies in the terahertz spectrum, the next-generation communications bandwidth...

How Madden Ratings Are Made
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How Madden Ratings Are Made

Hunched over a keyboard, surrounded by computer monitors, Donny Moore, 37, controls the fate of the National Football League.

Why the Fax Machine Isn't Quite Dead Yet
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Why the Fax Machine Isn't Quite Dead Yet

When do you think the fax machine was invented?

Sony Opens Global Math Challenge to ­.s. Students
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Sony Opens Global Math Challenge to ­.s. Students

Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc.'s Global Math Challenge will be available to students in the United States for the first time. The challenge will be held...

How the Military Will Fight Isis on the Dark Web
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How the Military Will Fight Isis on the Dark Web

The Dark Web is not so much a place as it is a method of achieving a level of anonymity online.

Electrolyte Rids Batteries of Short-Circuiting Fibers
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Electrolyte Rids Batteries of Short-Circuiting Fibers

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new electrolyte for lithium batteries that eliminates dendrites...

China Drops Leading Technology Brands For State Purchases
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China Drops Leading Technology Brands For State Purchases

China has dropped some of the world's leading technology brands from its approved state purchase lists, while approving thousands more locally made products, in...

New Display Technology Lets Lcds Produce Princess Leia-Style Holograms
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New Display Technology Lets Lcds Produce Princess Leia-Style Holograms

During a famous scene in Star Wars, Princess Leia has R2D2 play a holographic video message in midair in which she pleads for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the near...

Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading in Print. Yes, You Read That Right.
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Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading in Print. Yes, You Read That Right.

Frank Schembari loves books—printed books.

Planetary Science: The Pluto Siblings
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Planetary Science: The Pluto Siblings

In a spare conference room in Boulder, Colorado, planetary scientists Leslie and Eliot Young quiz a graduate student to prepare him for his upcoming exams.

Better Machine Learning
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Better Machine Learning

Research scientist Kalyan Veeramachaneni is tackling some of the bottlenecks holding back the data science industry.

A Pebble in Apple's Shoe
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A Pebble in Apple's Shoe

I made it a point to visit Eric Migicovsky on September 10, 2014. It was the day after the lavish event announcing the Apple Watch, the long-anticipated wrist computer...

The Plan to Find Alien Life in Europa's Icy Seas
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The Plan to Find Alien Life in Europa's Icy Seas

How do you solve a problem like Europa?

Researchers' Software Bids to Develop World's Fastest Super Computers
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Researchers' Software Bids to Develop World's Fastest Super Computers

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast are creating ground-breaking computer software which has the potential to develop some of the world's fastest super...

This Is Your Avatar Speaking
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This Is Your Avatar Speaking

Last year, in a lab at the University of Barcelona, an anonymous woman was fitted with headphones, a microphone, a head-mounted virtual-reality display, a motion...

Actual Race on Moon Could Decide Lunar Xprize Winner
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Actual Race on Moon Could Decide Lunar Xprize Winner

We may be on for an actual space race. Two competitors for the Google Lunar XPrize say they will buddy up to get their rovers to the moon by the end of next year...

Rivals Google and Apple Fight For the Dashboard
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Rivals Google and Apple Fight For the Dashboard

When Google hosted a boot camp here this month for its Android operating system, there were some new faces in the room: auto manufacturers.

School Computer Coding Bill Passes First Vote in ­tah Senate
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School Computer Coding Bill Passes First Vote in ­tah Senate

The Utah Senate gave preliminary approval to a bill that would create a computer science initiative requiring a range of computer science instructional resources...

Intel Forges Ahead to 10nm, Will Move Away from Silicon at 7nm
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Intel Forges Ahead to 10nm, Will Move Away from Silicon at 7nm

This week at the 2015 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Intel will provide an update on its new 10nm manufacturing process and new research...

Meet Kevin Ashton, Father of the Internet of Things
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Meet Kevin Ashton, Father of the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things started in the mid-1990s, when a quirky young brand manager in the U.K. puzzled over why a shade of brown lipstick kept disappearing from...
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