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Student Creates Anti-Counterfeit Software
HCM City National University student Nguyen Kim Hoang Nhu has developed 1.1trieu.com, a program that can help people avoid accidentally purchasing counterfeit products...
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Foursquare: Where Are Location Sites Taking Us?
Where others see a city map, Ryan Long sees a game board. The game is Foursquare, but not the way you played it in grade school. On Foursquare.com every bar,...
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Device Helps .s. Troops in Afghanistan Disable Ieds
A device developed by Sandia National Laboratories researchers that shoots a blade of water capable of penetrating steel is headed to U.S. troops in Afghanistan...
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'Cookies' Cause Bitter Backlash
Spate of lawsuits shows user discomfort with latest innovations in online-tracking technology.
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Conflict Over Nasa Spaceflight Program Complicates Funding
NASA's human space program, long the agency's biggest public and congressional asset, has become instead its biggest headache.
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ORNL Strengthens DOE-Funded Clean Vehicles Team
As a member of the recently announced clean vehicles consortium, part of the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers...
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Cloud Computing Hits Snag in Europe
Cloud-based breakthroughs face a formidable obstacle in Europe: strict privacy laws that place rigid limits on the movement of information beyond the borders...
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Intel Touts
Intel has joined the parade of companies trying to beam video to your TV. The chipmaker is betting on “WiDi,” its technology for streaming media wirelessly from...
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New Biosensing Technology Could Replace Microplates
A new electronic biosensing technology developed by a team of engineers and biomedical scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology could make the multi-welled...
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Why Google Went Instant
The service, an engineering marvel, could boost Google's bottom line.
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3-D Computer Simulations Help Shed Light on Supernovae Explosions
Scientists have found a novel way to make three-dimensional computer simulations of supernovae explosions that may help in understanding these explosions better...
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The Face of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room six years ago. Five hundred million people have joined since, and eight hundred and seventy-nine of...
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Self-Organizing Traffic Lights
Researchers at TU Dresden's Institute of Transport & Economics and ETH Zurich are working to ease traffic congestion by enabling traffic lights to organize their...
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Powerful Argument for Cutting IT Energy Consumption
Although technology is growing more and more energy efficient, more innovation is needed to offset the growing use of computers in countries such as India and China...
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Tiny Mavs May Someday Explore and Detect Environmental Hazards
The next phase of high-performance micro air vehicles (MAVs) for the Air Force could involve insect-sized robots for monitoring and exploring hazardous environments...
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ICANN Warns Against Government Control of the Internet
ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom, speaking at the recent Internet Governance Forum, said that all Internet stakeholders must strive to keep Internet governance out of the...
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Disembodied Performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab professor Tod Machover has spent more than a decade inventing the technology for a new opera premiering in September...
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NASA's LRO Exposes Moon's Complex, Turbulent Youth
The moon was bombarded by two distinct populations of asteroids or comets in its youth, and its surface is more complex than previously thought, according to...
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Google
Lately, stories about Google often seem to be stories about conflict—Google knocking heads with China or the Justice Department or Facebook. For Eric E. Schmidt...
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