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Mars Landing Sites Narrowed Down to Final 4
After years of poring through images from space and debating where on Mars the next NASA rover should land, it comes down to four choices.
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How Bin Laden Emailed Without Being Detected By U.s.
Using intermediaries and inexpensive computer disks, Osama bin Laden managed to send emails while in hiding, without leaving a digital fingerprint for U.S. eavesdroppers...
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Kaspar the Friendly Robot Helps Autistic Kids
University of Hertfordshire scientists are working with a preschool for autistic children to study the impact of robots on the development of students' social skills...
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Planet Mercury Visible Before Nasa Craft Orbits It
Earth is about to get better acquainted with its oddball planetary cousin, Mercury, a rocky wonderland of extremes.
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Wireless Advances Could Mean No More Cell Towers
As cell phones have spread, so have large cell towers—those unsightly stalks of steel topped by transmitters and other electronics that sprouted across the country...
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Eu Warns It Lags Behind in Global Innovation Race
The European Union's scientific and industrial innovation efforts lag far behind the United States and Japan, prompting the EU Commission to call for measures to...
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Fifa to Test 10 Goal-Line Technology Systems
The FIFA rule-making panel will study the results from 10 different goal-line technology systems being tested to help referees make decisions.
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Iran Seeks to Boost Corps of Web Watchers
Iran's top police chief envisions a new beat for his forces: patrolling cyberspace.
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Intel's Truce with Nvidia Shows Industry's Shifts
Intel Corp.'s decision to pay Nvidia Corp. $1.5 billion for the right to its patents highlights the seismic shifts the semiconductor industry is undergoing.
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In Ages 25 to 29, Half in .s. Have a Cell Phone, but No Landline
In a first for any age group, more than half of Americans who are 25 to 29 years old live in households with cell phones but no traditional landline telephones...
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Pa College: Social Media Blackout Wins Converts
Forty-two percent of students responding to in-house surveys at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology said they supported a weeklong blackout of social...
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Iphone Games: Kids nknowingly Spend Real Money in 'smurf's Village'
"The Smurfs' Village," a game for the iPhone and other Apple gadgets, was released a month ago and quickly became the highest-grossing application in the iTunes...
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Japan Promises High-Tech 2022 World Cup
Japan promises to dazzle fans with technology if it hosts the 2022 World Cup, allowing them to experience matches as though they are in the actual stadium, even...
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In Class, Texting Is the New Doodling
Top classroom distraction surpasses doodling, daydreaming and note-passing.
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Virus Could Ruin Many Industries' Control Systems
Stuxnet, a worm that appears to target Iran's nuclear energy plants, can be tweaked to inflict damage on industrial control systems worldwide, and constitutes the...
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Israeli High Tech Adjusts to Asian Challenge
The emergence of India and China is casting a shadow on the developed economies of Europe and North America, and is also posing a challenge to Israel. Key players...
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Robot's Space Debut 'giant Leap For Tinmankind'
NASA is sending a humanoid robot, called Robonaut 2, to the International Space Station for the first time. R2 has more than 350 electrical sensors throughout...
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Driverless Vans End 8,000-Mile Test Drive to China
The European Research Council's 8,000-mile robotic car test, which began in Italy on July 20, came to a conclusion as four unmanned electric vans successfully completed...
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Air Force Manual Describes Shadowy Cyberwar World
A new Air Force manual for cyberwarfare describes a shadowy, fast-changing world where anonymous enemies can carry out devastating attacks in seconds and where...
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