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A New Chapter For E-Books
The problem with the Harry Potter series, for me and many others, was that it had to end.
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Filling Space With Polyhedra
Salvatore Torquato’s unique space-packing method has implications in information theory and materials science.
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Headless, Humanoid Robot Preps For Army Duty
Sauntering toward you like a mechanized zombie is the Army’s newest recruit: a robot with a blinking red light where its head should be.
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To Diagnose Heart Disease, Visualization Experts Recommend a Simpler Approach
Harvard University researchers have developed HemoVis, a method for visualizing human arteries that, in clinical testing, increased diagnostic accuracy from 39...
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Computer Scientist Seeks the Real Meaning of Language
Researchers at Columbia University and the City University of New York are developing computational methods to detect deception in English, Mandarin Chinese, and...
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DARPA Offers $50,000 Prize If You Can Figure Out These Shredded Puzzles
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the $50,000 Shredder Challenge, which asks participants to devise new methods or techniques for piecing...
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New Tool Clears the Air on Cloud Simulations
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers and international collaborators have developed the Cloud-Feedback-Model Intercomparison Project Observation Simulator...
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Researchers Create Transistors From Natural Cotton Fibers
Cornell University professor Juan Hinestroza was part of an international team that recently developed transistors using natural cotton fibers.
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A Deeper Look Into Space
NASA hopes the James Webb Space Telescope, which can detect ancient light that its predecessors can’t, will reveal more information about the origins of the universe...
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China Tangles with Internet Access
Internet giants like Google and Twitter have had to beat a retreat from China after being blocked or restricted, and now, some tech lobbies are stepping up pressure...
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In Surprise, China nveils Supercomputer Based on Its Own Chips
China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance computing specialists in the United States...
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The Making of Arduino
How five friends engineered a small circuit board that’s taking the DIY world by storm.
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The Genius of Jobs
One of the questions I wrestled with when writing about Steve Jobs was how smart he was. On the surface, this should not have been much of an issue.
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Kevin Mitnick Rates Today's Blackhats
Kevin Mitnick was hacking when the LulzSec kids were still in training pants.
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IBM Simulates 4.5% of the Human Brain, and All of the Cat Brain
Supercomputers can store more information than the human brain and can calculate a single equation faster, but even the biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world...
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Can Software Patch the Ailing Power Grid?
A consortium providing the technology for a large-scale smart grid project says the software is nearly complete.
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New Technology Pinpoints Anomalies in Complex Financial Data
Battelle researchers at the U.S. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed Anomalator, analytical software designed to recognize anomalous information...
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Lack of Confidence as Professionals Spurs Women to Leave Engineering, Study Finds
Women who start college aiming to become engineers are more likely than men to change their major and choose another career because they lack confidence, according...
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Wholesome Data: sing It to Promote Healthy Behaviors
Edmund Seto, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, develops censor and cell phone technologies to connect people to relevant, real-time data about...
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