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Killer Drones, Stealth Jets, Spy Planes: Bob Gates
On his way out the door at the Pentagon, Robert Gates leveled with the military. A staggering $700 billion in defense R&D and gear since 9/11 led to only "...
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Nasa's Lessons From The Outer Limits
In April 1981, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched a space shuttle program meant to take astronauts, cargo, research experiments and military...
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Engineers Work to Ease Internet Data Flow as Demand For Video Grows
Princeton University researchers have developed the Edge Laboratory, a miniature version of the global communications network, to develop new ideas and systems...
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Wi-Fi 'napping' Doubles Phone Battery Life
Duke University researchers have developed SleepWell, software that can double the battery life of mobile devices by making changes to Wi-Fi technology.
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Rutgers-Led Experts Assemble Globe-Spanning Supercomputer Cloud
Researchers at Rutgers University, the University of Texas at Austin, and IBM have created a massive virtual supercomputer cloud designed to solve complex computing...
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U. Va. Engineers Help Manage Crisis With Crowdsourcing
A Web-based crowdsourcing application developed by a team at the University of Virginia could be used to provide the public with critical information in the event...
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Biomolecular Computer Can Autonomously Sense Multiple Signs of Disease
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have developed a biomolecular computer that can autonomously sense several different types of molecules at once, and could...
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Scientists Hope to Get Glimpse of Adolescent Universe from Revolutionary Instrument-on-a-Chip
Scientists know what the universe looked like when it was a baby. They know what it looks like today. What they don't know is how it looked in its youth.
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Magnetic Memory and Logic Could Achieve Ultimate Energy Efficiency
Future computers may rely on magnetic microprocessors that consume the least amount of energy allowed by the laws of physics, according to an analysis by University...
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The Tragic Decline of Blackberry
Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the venerable BlackBerry devices, will always be remembered as the company that liberated corporate email from the PC. In...
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Biomolecular Computer Can Autonomously Sense Multiple Signs of Disease
In the future, nano-sized computers implanted in the human body could autonomously scan for disease indicators, diagnose diseases, and control the release of...
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Panel Proposes Killing Webb Space Telescope
The House Appropriations Committee proposed Wednesday to kill the James Webb Space Telescope, the crown jewel of NASA’s astronomy plans for the next two decades...
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Stanford Faculty Collaborate to Improve Online Education
Stanford University faculty are jointly developing software and testing it in the classroom to improve online education.
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Can Google Get Web Users Talking?
Google researchers are implementing voice-driven Web search capability on computers, with the goal of making such searches as easy to perform as they are on the...
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Roving Robot to the Rescue
A roving robot that can locate victims of natural disasters via their mobile phones or bombs that are detonated through mobile phones has been developed by students...
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A Collision of Creativity and Cash at Disney/pixar
When the Walt Disney Company bought Pixar Animation Studios for $7.4 billion in 2006, there was understandable concern that the media conglomerate that drove...
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Student Pursues Breakthrough in Supercomputing
Northeastern University's Greg Kerr has developed a process that will make it possible for supercomputers running on the InfiniBand system to save their data part...
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The A-Z of Programming Languages: Shakespeare
In an interview, Swedish programmers Jon Aslund and Karl Wiberg say they created the Shakespeare Programming Language in one night while they were studying at the...
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Google+ Contributor and Mac Pioneer Talks with CNET
Thirty years ago, Andy Hertzfeld was a young computer engineer working at Apple Computer on the first Macintosh under the leadership of Steve Jobs. As Jobs had...
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