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­.s. Chip Manufacturing in the Age of the Ipad
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­.s. Chip Manufacturing in the Age of the Ipad

Behind the fly-off-the-shelf popularity of products like Apple's iPad and iPhone are hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs—mostly overseas. Is it possible...

Rear-View Cameras on Cars Could Become Mandatory
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Rear-View Cameras on Cars Could Become Mandatory

The government has proposed requiring automakers to install the systems on all their vehicles to eliminate blind spots and reduce back-over accidents.

Researchers Continue Search For Elusive New Particles at Cern
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Researchers Continue Search For Elusive New Particles at Cern

Texas Tech University researchers' recently published results are the first of the "new physics" research papers produced from the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment...

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WikiLeaks Struggles to Stay Online After Cyberattacks

An American provider of Internet domain names withdrew its service to the WikiLeaks Web site late Thursday after a barrage of attacks by hackers threatened to...

U.s. Tech Lead Is at Risk, Says Obama's Top Scientist
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U.s. Tech Lead Is at Risk, Says Obama's Top Scientist

The United States is in danger of losing its technological edge amid a deterioration in its global competitiveness, warns U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Particularly...

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IBM Chip Breakthrough May Lead to Exascale Supercomputers

IBM's new CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics technology boosts the data transfer rate between computer chips using pulses of light, and could boost supercomputing...

Fcc Chief Previews Proposed Net Neutrality Rules
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Fcc Chief Previews Proposed Net Neutrality Rules

U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski recently previewed new Net neutrality rules designed to preserve the Web "as a platform...

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A European Network of Excellence for Large-Scale Data Management Over the Internet Is Launched

The Universidad Politecnica de Madrid is participating in PlanetData, a European project to help researchers publish their data in a more serviceable form on a...

Faculty Innovators Explore Ipad ­se
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Faculty Innovators Explore Ipad ­se

A nine-year-old Faculty Innovators program at Western Illinois University strives to mentor faculty on integrating technology and teaching. This year, participating...

Web Bug Reveals Browsing History
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Web Bug Reveals Browsing History

Porn sites are among the top users of a browser bug that reveals all the places people go online, finds research.

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Every Day We Write the Book

What would happen if Facebook made its data available for research?

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Google Earth Engine Debuts

In what promises to be one of the most impressive innovations to come out of the Cancun climate talks, the philanthropic arm of Google launched a new technology...

Parc Readies Printed Electronics For Market
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Parc Readies Printed Electronics For Market

Early 2011 will see printed memory devices in toys and printed sensors in packages used to ship drugs.

Microsoft Develops Shape-Shifting Touchscreen
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Microsoft Develops Shape-Shifting Touchscreen

Microsoft has filed a patent application to add real texture to a tactile touchscreen. A layer of shape-memory plastic placed above a touchscreen would distort...

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Thousands of Html5 Tests Planned By Web Consortium

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 topped Google Chrome and Firefox in the first round of HTML5 compatibility tests, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) said that...

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China Arrests Hundreds of Hackers, Says Situation 'grim'

China has arrested more than 460 hackers and solved 180 cyber attack cases this year, but the situation of hacker attacks is "still very grim and the number of...

Professor Develops Innovative Technology For Wireless ­nderground Communication
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Professor Develops Innovative Technology For Wireless ­nderground Communication

Ryerson University professor Xavier Fernando has developed highly reliable underground wireless communications systems that can ensure miners' safety before and...

Joanne Luciano Joins Rensselaer's Web Science Research Group
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Joanne Luciano Joins Rensselaer's Web Science Research Group

Joanne Sylvia Luciano has joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Tetherless World Research Constellation. Luciano's research uses computational modeling and...

NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical
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NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

NASA-funded astrobiology research has changed the fundamental knowledge about what comprises all known life on Earth.

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Media in China, Arab Middle East Suppressing Wikileaks Coverage

Revelations by the organization WikiLeaks have received blanket coverage this week on television, in newspapers and on Web sites around the globe. But in parts...
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