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Ford Engineers Have 3D Printers on Their Desks. When Will You Get One?
Ford has caught the DIY revolution and now puts 3D printers at workstations for its engineers.
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China Tightens Internet Controls, Legalizes Post Deletion
China unveiled tighter Internet controls on Friday, legalizing the deletion of posts or pages which are deemed to contain "illegal" information and requiring service...
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Engineers Working to Prevent Heat Buildup Within 3-D Integrated Circuits
University of Texas Arlington researchers are working to minimize the heat generated by silicon chips, and will then develop nano-windows that allow the heat to...
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Loreto College Pioneering Best-Practice in Computer Science Education
Loreto College in Northern Ireland recently hosted a Java programming course for teachers. The course is a response to a growing demand from pupils and the information...
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Simulating the Future of Fuel
University of Texas at Austin researchers are using first-principles-based, atomic-level computer simulations to improve the efficiency of fuel cells.
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Revealed: Nsa Targeting Domestic Computer Systems in Secret Test
The U.S. National Security Agency has launched Perfect Citizen, a program to find security vulnerabilities in the computerized systems that control utilities....
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Cloud-Powered Gps Chip Slashes Smartphone Power Consumption
Microsoft researchers have developed CLEO, a cloud-based global positioning system that collects only a few milliseconds of the most important information from...
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All Systems Go For Highest Altitude Supercomputer
The U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory has installed and tested in Chile the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, the most elaborate ground-based...
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Proving the Need For Quantum Computers
University of Queensland researchers aim to prove the need for quantum computers by finding a problem that can be mathematically proven to be unsolvable by classical...
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Real and Virtual Firearms Nurture a Marketing Link
As Electronic Arts prepared to market Medal of Honor Warfighter, the latest version of its top-selling video game released in October, it created a Web site that...
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Why Everybody Wants a Slice of Raspberry Pi
In a world where computers are increasingly powerful and are concealed within ever more glossy slabs of aluminum, the Raspberry Pi offers surprising proof for the...
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Why China's Homemade Microchips Will Struggle to Displace Western Giants
If China's ultimate aim in the sphere of technology is to become completely self-sufficient, it is well on the way to achieving this ambitious goal.
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Iran Repels New .s. Cyber Attack
Iran announced that it has thwarted a second cyber attack on one of its Culture Ministry institutes.
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Forget Yolo: Why 'big Data' Should Be the Word of the Year
"Big Data" hasn't made any of the words-of-the-year lists I've seen so far. That's probably because it didn't get the wide public exposure given to items like "...
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Cassini Instrument Learns New Tricks
For seven years, a mini-fridge-sized instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft reliably investigated weather patterns swirling around Saturn; the hydrocarbon...
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Who Owns the Content You pload Online?
The outrage over Instagram's announcement that it is changing its terms and conditions has turned the spotlight on the relationship between websites and users who...
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Keep It Simple: Bring Software Complexity nder Control
European Union-funded researchers working on the DEPLOY project have developed an approach for building software systems that is safer, less expensive, and more...
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Research Outlays to Decline Next Year
Research and development spending by governments and corporations in the Unites States and Europe could decline in 2013 as a result of weak economies and large...
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Online Translation Breaks Language Barriers
Free online translation services are improving thanks to better data and more sophisticated algorithms. Google Translate currently has more than 200 million users...
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