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Zero Latency: The Vr Revolution Begins in Melbourne, Australia
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Zero Latency: The Vr Revolution Begins in Melbourne, Australia

Stepping onto the large freight elevator, my body sways to keep balanced as the rising platform lifts me into the zombie-infested city above.

Kaspersky Lab: Based In Russia, Doing Cybersecurity In The West
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Kaspersky Lab: Based In Russia, Doing Cybersecurity In The West

Given Russia's cyber skills, it's not surprising that a Russian entrepreneur, Eugene Kaspersky, runs one of the world's leading companies offering protection from...

Nasa's Europa Mission Team Joins Forces For the First Time
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Nasa's Europa Mission Team Joins Forces For the First Time

They're united by a lofty goal—to investigate whether Jupiter's moon Europa could harbor primitive life under its icy shell.

Why Larry Page Is Stepping Away
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Why Larry Page Is Stepping Away

In the ten years that I’ve been watching him, Larry Page has always wanted to play by his own rules.

The Man Making Puzzles For Hackers
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The Man Making Puzzles For Hackers

If you want to know how to keep 16,000 geeks entertained, ask the Lost Boy aka Ryan Clarke.

Cyberattacks as Significant as Traditional Threats, Says Battleship Manufacturer
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Cyberattacks as Significant as Traditional Threats, Says Battleship Manufacturer

Warfare is increasingly being fought from behind computer screens rather than on the battlefield, forcing weapons manufacturers to consider the myriad of threats...

Smartphone Screen Lets You Reach Out and Touch Some 'thing'
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Smartphone Screen Lets You Reach Out and Touch Some 'thing'

A tiny startup outside Chicago has created external hardware for a smartphone that enables a user to feel as well as see an image on flat glass.

How Fiction Can Reveal the Horrors of Future Wars
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How Fiction Can Reveal the Horrors of Future Wars

The fact that he couldn't feel the drill going into the back of his skull made the noise all the more terrifying.

Inside the Struggle to Create Great Apple Watch Apps
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Inside the Struggle to Create Great Apple Watch Apps

When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in January 2007, he touted it as three gadgets in one: "a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary...

U.s. Researchers Show Computers Can Be Hijacked to Send Data As Sound Waves
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U.s. Researchers Show Computers Can Be Hijacked to Send Data As Sound Waves

A team of security researchers has demonstrated the ability to hijack standard equipment inside computers, printers and millions of other devices in order to send...

Welcome to the Metaverse
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Welcome to the Metaverse

Ebbe Altberg needs about a paragraph to define human life: "What humans do is create spaces," the gregarious 51-year-old executive says, leaning back at a table...

Caution ­rged Over Editing Dna in Wildlife (intentionally or Not)
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Caution ­rged Over Editing Dna in Wildlife (intentionally or Not)

"Crap!" That was the first word out of Kevin Esvelt’s mouth as he scanned a paper1 published inScience last March.

For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program
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For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program

She is known as Xiaoice, and millions of young Chinese pick up their smartphones every day to exchange messages with her, drawn to her knowing sense of humor and...

Search For Alien Life Ignites Battle Over Giant Telescope
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Search For Alien Life Ignites Battle Over Giant Telescope

There is a gaping hole in the latest effort to reinvigorate the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), one so big it could hold an estimated 357 million...

Obama's New Executive Order Says the ­.s. Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer
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Obama's New Executive Order Says the ­.s. Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer

President Obama has established a new initiative across multiple government agencies that will focus entirely on creating the fastest supercomputers ever devised...

Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target
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Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target

Put a computer on a sniper rifle, and it can turn the most amateur shooter into a world-class marksman.

Genomics Pioneer Jun Wang on His New AI Venture
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Genomics Pioneer Jun Wang on His New AI Venture

Jun Wang is one of China's most famous scientists.

Ultrafast Device Has Speed, Efficiency to Serve Optical Computers
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Ultrafast Device Has Speed, Efficiency to Serve Optical Computers

Researchers have developed an ultrafast light-emitting device that can flip on and off 90 billion times a second and could form the basis of optical computing.

Ornl Researchers Make Scalable Arrays of 'building Blocks' For Ultrathin Electronics
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Ornl Researchers Make Scalable Arrays of 'building Blocks' For Ultrathin Electronics

Researchers demonstrated an approach to forming lithographically patterned arrays of lateral semiconducting heterojunctions within a single two-dimensional crystal...

Personal Robots: Artificial Friends with Limited Benefits
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Personal Robots: Artificial Friends with Limited Benefits

If you visit Softbank's flagship store in downtown Tokyo, you may be greeted by a charming, slightly manic new member of the staff: a gleaming white humanoid robot...
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