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Nasa Sparks Its Imagination
It's been a month since Curiosity’s remarkable soft landing on the surface of Mars. Remember the massive, supersonic parachute that slowed the spacecraft’s descent...
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How the Pros Thwart Computer Spies with James Bond Tricks
H.D. Moore wasn't taking chances.
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Review: Raspberry Pi
You can get a lot for $35 these days. It bought me what looks like a credit card-size James Bond gadget prototype but is actually a fully functional computer.
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What Do the H-Bomb and the Internet Have in Common? Paul Baran
Paul Baran set out to build a means of communication that could survive a nuclear war. And he ended up inventing the fundamental networking techniques that underpin...
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'Junk DNA' Debunked
The deepest look into the human genome so far shows it to be a richer, messier and more intriguing place than was believed just a decade ago, scientists said Wednesday...
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Statisticians Calculate Probability of Another 9/11 Attack
There is a 50 percent chance of another devastating terrorist attack within the next decade, according to statistics compiled by the Santa Fe Institute's Aaron...
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Twitter Data Crunching: The New Crystal Ball
Big data analysis of Twitter activity can help predict the outcome of election-based processes such as TV talent shows, according to new research.
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'nanoresonators' Might Improve Cell Phone Performance
Purdue University researchers have developed nanoelectromechanical resonators, which contain a small beam of silicon that vibrates when voltage is applied.
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Leading Global Standards Organizations Endorse 'openstand' Principles
The Internet Architecture Board, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the World...
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Bae's Striker Helmet Gives Fighter Pilots 'x-Ray Vision'
When a pilot in a Eurofighter Typhoon jet glances down, he doesn't see a steel-grey floor. Instead he sees clouds, and maybe sheep and cows in green fields below...
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Visible Light Communication Could Simplify Car Electronics
Warwick University researchers are studying replacing the wiring inside cars with devices that communicate via light signals. The researchers have demonstrated...
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Computational Social Science: Making the Links
Jon Kleinberg's early work was not for the mathematically faint of heart.
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'degrade, Disrupt, Deceive': .s. Talks Openly About Hacking Foes
There was a time, not all that long ago, when the U.S. military wouldn't even whisper about its plans to hack into opponents' networks.
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Harnessing nused Smartphone Power For a Computing Boost
Technical University of Braunschweig researchers have found that smartphones can be joined together in a network, which when connected via Wi-Fi, can carry out...
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Quantum Chip Breakthrough to Be Unveiled
University of Bristol researchers say they have developed a quantum chip that will lead to the creation of completely secure mobile phones and super-fast computers...
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Austrian Programmers Build Free Bridge to Internet
Austrian researchers have developed FunkFeuer, a low-cost way of spreading Internet access across communities using the same open radio spectrum as Wi-Fi.
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Secrecy Surrounding 'zero-Day Exploits' Industry Spurs Calls For Government Oversight
A barely regulated industry for zero-day exploits sold by researchers has sprung up, and even certain insiders believe trade of these hacker or security tools...
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Meet the Man Who's Rewiring Google From the Inside Out
It was a tweet that fired the imagination like few others. On May 10, 2011, at 1:35 in the afternoon, Eric Brewer told the world he was redesigning the most important...
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Making Web Applications More Efficient
Most major Websites these days maintain huge databases: Shopping sites have databases of inventory and customer ratings, travel sites have databases of seat availability...
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