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The Drive Toward Hydrogen Vehicles Just Got Shorter
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Alabama have revealed a new single-stage method for recharging the hydrogen storage compound...
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Google Funds Georgia Tech Internet Transparency Research
A team of Georgia Tech researchers will use a $1 million Google Research Focused Award to conduct research on Internet transparency.
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E-Textbooks Get a Lift From Publishers
Over the years, publishers have tried a variety of strategies to sell digital textbooks but with limited success. Two major publishers, Pearson and McGraw-Hill,...
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Drexel Students Develop Music-Playing Robot
Drexel University researchers have developed RoboNova, a music-playing robot with the long-term goal of getting it to become an interactive participant in a live...
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New Software Calculates Heating Costs in Greenhouse Operations
Jonathan Frantz, a U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher, and colleagues have developed Virtual Grower, software for calculating heating costs in greenhouse...
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Terahertz Superchips Can Do It All
Cornell University researchers have developed terahertz radiation microchips that could be used in a wide range of medical and scientific applications, including...
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At&t, T-Mobile Merger Blasted
A day after AT&T announced it would buy T-Mobile USA to create the biggest wireless carrier in the country, consumer advocates and some members of Congress blasted...
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Dueling Algorithms
There's an old joke about two hikers on a trail, one wearing hiking boots and the other running shoes. "Why the running shoes?" the first hiker asks. "In case...
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Https Is More Secure, So Why Isn't the Web Using It?
You wouldn't write your username and passwords on a postcard and mail it for the world to see, so why are you doing it online? Every time you log in to Twitter...
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Browser Communication Boost Back on Track
After a security problem derailed it last year, a technology to open a high-speed browser communications link is getting back on track again.
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When CS Students Need Help Asap, They Can Now Turn to Piazzza
Piazzza is a next-generation, wiki-style Q&A platform that has been adopted by more than half of the undergraduate students at Stanford University and is growing...
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Quantum Computing Device Hints at Powerful Future
One of the most complex efforts toward a quantum computer has been shown off at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas in the U.S. It uses the strange...
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How Cruise Missiles Would Beat Gps Jammers in Libya
Now that jammers are cheap and potentially ubiquitous, how do Tomahawk missiles stay on course?
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Japan
After more than than a week of gathering anecdotal reports about shortages here and there, the research firm IHS iSuppli has concluded that 25 percent of the...
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In Japan, Rescue Robots Are Poised to Go From Lab to Quake Scene
Japanese researchers working at Texas A&M University's Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue have developed robots that will soon be put into use to help...
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Itu Worries Over Declining Female Presence in Ict
The International Telecommunication Union commemorated the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day by addressing the declining presence of women in the information...
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Software to Predict 'march Madness' Basketball Winner
The goal of the March Madness Predictive Analysis Challenge, now in its second year, is to build software that can select winning basketball teams with greater...
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Gesture Control: Touching the Future of Computing
University of Essex bionics researcher James Cannan is building a bracelet that records every finger stroke, capturing the motion and position of each digit and...
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Why At&t Bought T-Mobile
AT&T, criticized and even despised for its inability to keep up with growing mobile data usage, thinks it has found the solution to its network woes. And all...
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