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Year Zero: Our Life Timelines Begin
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Year Zero: Our Life Timelines Begin

In 10 years, every human connected to the Internet will have a timeline.

Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge
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Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge

When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...

Research Could Lead to More Efficient Electrical Energy Storage
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Research Could Lead to More Efficient Electrical Energy Storage

Lawrence Livermore research has opened a new window toward more efficient electrochemical energy storage systems.

Researchers Report Milestone in Developing Quantum Computer
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Researchers Report Milestone in Developing Quantum Computer

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Google reported on Wednesdayin the journal Nature that they had made a significant advance that...

China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear from Anti-Terror Law
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China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear from Anti-Terror Law

China's proposed anti-terrorism law will not affect the legitimate interests of technology firms, a top Chinese spokeswoman said Wednesday after U.S. President ...

Six Keys to Sports Analytics
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Six Keys to Sports Analytics

The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...

Black Phosphorous Holds Advantage for Optical Communication, Researchers Say
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Black Phosphorous Holds Advantage for Optical Communication, Researchers Say

Researchers from the University of Minnesota used an ultrathin black phosphorus film to demonstrate high-speed data communication on nanoscale optical circuits...

Why Big Tech Isn't Celebrating Its Big Victory on Net Neutrality
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Why Big Tech Isn't Celebrating Its Big Victory on Net Neutrality

Not long ago, Google execs would have been popping champagne corks over today's big news from the Federal Communications Commission.

New Chip Lets Gadget Developers Build Mobile Apps Into Their Devices
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New Chip Lets Gadget Developers Build Mobile Apps Into Their Devices

Two years ago, a small group of engineers from a company called RF Digital launched a Kickstarter campaign for the RFduino, a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 4.0-enabled...

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?

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...

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.

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...
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