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Wanted: Technical Women
"Especially at a time when unemployment is high and our economy is weak, we cannot afford to lose anyone with the technical skills to create a sustainable future...
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'Greeley Haven' is Winter Workplace for Mars Rover
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next several months at a site informally named "Greeley Haven."
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10 Tech Research Projects to Watch
Ten promising research projects that could lead to future consumer products include a solar-powered personal computer, three-dimensional images that respond to...
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It's a Man vs. Machine Recovery
The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.
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3-D Cameras For Cellphones
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing a three-dimensional device that provides more accurate depth information than Microsoft's Kinect...
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Google's Chrome Page No Longer Ranks For 'browser' After Sponsored Post Penalty
Searches for "browser" no longer bring up the Google Chrome home page after Google applied a penalty against the page because of Google's own sponsored post campaign...
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Pentagon Scientists Use 'time Hole' to Make Events Disappear
Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting...
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Pentagon Fears Iran's Access to F-22 Technology Through Hijacked Spy Drone
Reports coming out from the Pentagon revealed that the United States' military experts and officials are deeply worried about Tehran's access to the RQ-170 Sentinel...
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3-D Chips Grow Up
Researchers are starting to build chips in the third dimension, and many industry experts believe that this year the chip will start to become a cube. Building...
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Close Encounters: When Daniel123 Met Jane234
The developers of the Qbo robots continue to explore simulated consciousness. After training a Qbo to recognize itself in the mirror, Francisco Paz and his team...
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Military Academies Look to Fill Nation's Cybersecurity Gaps
U.S. military academies have been developing potential cyberwarriors for years, but has difficulty finding them positions that use their cyberskills. Most graduates...
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Robots Put You in Two Places at Once
Mike Fennelly isn't easily surprised by cutting-edge technologies, but when he started as an IT guy at a Silicon Valley startup called Evernote, he was caught...
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Gartner Slashes 2012 Global IT Spending Forecast
Happy New Year. IT market-research outfit Gartner has some sour news to start off 2012: It has just slashed its growth forecast for global on tech spending.
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Five Major Changes Facing the Internet in 2012
The Internet will face several milestones this year as it undergoes a major technical upgrade, moving from IPv4 to IPv6. This transition could result in major...
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Apache Launches Hadoop 1.0
The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache Hadoop 1.0, an open source software framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. "This is a release...
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Hackers Plan Space Satellites to Combat Censorship
An organization of computer hackers is planning to launch its own communication satellites and bypass satellites controlled by governmental bodies and used to censor...
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Apple Power Adapters Could Remember Your Passwords
Apple has worked out a way in which the power cords for computers or smartphones can help people recover their forgotten login passwords—or the answers to secret...
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Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools
Ann Rosenbaum, a former military police officer in the Marines, does not shrink from a fight, having even survived a close encounter with a car bomb in Iraq.
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Risky Rescue for Crippled Air Force Satellite
It was an epic space rescue that, in audacity and risk, echoed NASA's campaign to save the astronauts aboard the doomed Apollo 13 moon mission.
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