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How Research Goes Viral
Scores of interesting new findings from the biosciences may speed around the globe at the click of a mouse, but one thing particularly encourages other researchers...
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Critics See 'disaster' in Expansion of Domain Names
Vast new tracts of the Internet are up for sale as of Thursday.
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Apple Patents Power Charger Password Recovery
Apple recently received a new patent that proposes embedding password recovery secrets, or the encrypted passwords themselves, in a microchip that is placed inside...
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How Siri Makes Computers (and Coders) More Human
Siri, a program in the latest Apple iPhone that can carry out a wide spectrum of vocal commands without requiring training or special syntax from the user, stands...
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World's Largest Quantum Computation Uses 84 Qubits
D-Wave Systems' Zhengbing Bian and colleagues announced that they have carried out a calculation involving 84 qubits. The computation involved two-color Ramsey...
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Should Computers Have Their Own Web Sites?
Organizations could use a new top-level domain, .data, to share data in a standard form, writes Stephen Wolfram, creator of the computational knowledge engine Wolfram...
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The Search For the Right Candidate Just Got More Personal
The 2012 presidential campaign is about to get a lot more personal, at least if Google has any say in it.
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Google Adds Posts From Its Social Network to Search Results
Google's popularity was built on its ability to help people find just the right Web pages. Then came the social Web, led by Facebook, where people go to see vast...
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Almost 1 In 3 U.s. Warplanes Is a Robot
Remember when the military actually put human beings in the cockpits of its planes?
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Galaxy Hosts 100 Billion Planets, in New Estimate
Astronomers said Wednesday that each of the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way probably has at least one companion planet, adding credence to the notion that...
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NASA: Prize Money a Bargain for Better Software
Researchers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Harvard Business School in 2010 launched the NASA Tournament Lab, an online platform...
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Are Roll-Up Screens Ready For Prime Time?
Researchers at Queen's University's Human Media Lab have developed the Paper Phone, a flexible display that shows text, graphics, and media content.
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It Security Pros Go Full Year With No Joblessness
The Information Security Media Group reports that an analysis of new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests that there was no joblessness for information...
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Intel Unveils New Chips For Smartphones and Tablets
Intel's chips have dominated the PC era, but when it comes to post-PC devices, such as smartphones and tablets, the company is less than an also-ran.
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The $1,000 Human Genome?
The race to the $1,000 genome heated up today as Life Technologies, based in Carlsbad, Calif., announced it will debut a new sequencing machine this year that...
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Time Cloaking: How Scientists Opened a Hidden Gap in Time
Scientists say they have achieved "temporal cloaking"—manipulating light in a way that makes it appear as if 50 trillionths of a second never happened.
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Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi For White Spaces
Microsoft researchers have developed WiFi-NC, a type of Wi-Fi network that runs at peak performance even when interference is present.
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Russian Space Chief Claims Space Failures May Be Sabotage
Some recent failures of Russian satellites may have been the result of sabotage by foreign forces, Russia's space chief said in comments apparently aimed at the...
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nc Charlotte Professor's Signcryption Technology Tightens Cyber Security
University of North Carolina-Charlotte professor Yuliang Zheng has developed signcryption, data security technology that was recently recognized as an international...
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