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10 Years of Aqua Satellite's Incredible Images of Earth From Space
The view of Earth from space has transformed our understanding of, as well as our admiration for, the planet.
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How Steve Jobs Revolutionized Business
It is ironic that Steve Jobs, the man who focused on building consumer-friendly devices such as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, is also radically reshaping the business...
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Gesture Control System Uses Sound Alone
When you learned about the Doppler Effect in high school physics class—the wave frequency shift that occurs when the source of the wave is moving, easily illustrated...
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Turning Big Ideas Into Solutions
Student teams' development of innovative tools has earned them awards in the University of California Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest...
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Struggle Continues to Plug Embedded Programming Gap
Critics say the growing embedded programming gap can be attributed to university curriculums for introductory computer science courses, which recently have focused...
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London to Test 'smart City' Operating System
London is preparing to test an operating system designed to power the smart cities of the future.
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The State of Mobile: Less Talking, Fewer Texts, More Data
People generally talk less on the phone and send fewer text messages now because there are so many ways to communicate over an Internet connection. Though this...
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Objects Know How They Are Being Touched
A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger to her lips, and a chair...
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A Brief History of Warnings About the Demise of Moore's Law
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku rekindled a perennial discussion last week by saying Moore's Law, the pacesetter of technological advancement over the last half...
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Hovering Drones Flock Together Using 3D Vision
If you're going to have a group of drones flying around each other, it would probably be wise to have each of them know where the other is.
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Google Spdy Accelerates Mobile Web
The SPDY protocol can help provide much faster access to mobile Web sites, according to Google engineers.
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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create Dynamic View of City Based on Foursquare Check-in Data
A dynamic view of a city's activities and character that reflects the ever-fluctuating patterns of city life can be generated by the millions of check-ins produced...
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Look Ma No Hands, in 140 Characters or Less...
Clifford Nass, founder of Stanford University's Communications Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab, says future automobiles will boast full automation and...
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Osama Bin Laden Didn't Use Encryption: 17 Documents Released
It appears that Osama bin Laden didn’t encrypt any of his computer files. If he had, U.S. authorities probably wouldn’t have been able to do much after confiscating...
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What Makes Heroic Strife
For the past decade or so, generals commanding the world's most advanced armies have been able to rely on accurate forecasts of the outcomes of conventional battles...
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Programming Languages Can't Have Copyright Protection, Eu Court Rules
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the functionality of computer programs and the language they are written in cannot be protected by copyright.
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Ieee Fellow: Don't Expect Nfc Payments to Have a Major Mobile Impact
Although many companies are hoping that mobile payments enabled by near-field communications technology will catch on among consumers, the technology's impact will...
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Research Breakthrough Takes Supercomputing Out of the Lab
University of Toronto researchers have developed a system that they say will make the production of a special class of photons used in supercomputing faster and...
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A 100-Gigbit Highway For Science
The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is laying the foundation for a high-speed network that can transport an increasing amount of scientific...
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