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Who Scores Games By Hand Anymore?
The first thing Bruce Levy did upon recent entry into Yankee Stadium while accompanied by his in-laws and teenage son was to purchase a program in the area of the...
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Collect Yourself Before You Forget Yourself
Lifelogging attempts to capture, interpret, and supplement memories.
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What Is Graphene? Here's What You Need to Know About a Material that Could Be the Next Silicon
Graphene, an emerging material that could change the way electronic components are made and help computing performance continue to grow, is everywhere in the research...
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How the .s. Forces Net Firms to Cooperate on Surveillance
By wielding a potent legal threat, the U.S. government is often able to force Internet companies to aid its surveillance demands.
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Curiosity Mars Rover Passes Kilometer of Driving
The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer (about 0.62 mile).
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The End of Digital Tyranny: Why the Future of Computing Is Analog
Our world is ruled by 1s and 0s.
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Hugh Herr and the Liberating Age of Bionics
"It's extraordinary that we live in this day and age with all our wonderful modern technology, and still we have shoes that give us blisters," says Hugh Herr, with...
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Miracle Material Graphene Could Deliver Internet One Hundred Times Faster
Researchers have demonstrated incredibly short optical response rates using graphene, which could lead to much faster Internet speeds.
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Silicon Oxide Memories Transcend a Hurdle
Researchers have developed a one-kilobit rewritable silicon oxide device with diodes that eliminate data-corrupting crosstalk.
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Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
Like dozens of other brick-and-mortar retailers,Nordstrom wanted to learn more about its customers—how many came through the doors, how many were repeat visitors—the...
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Fact or Fiction: Encryption Prevents Digital Eavesdropping
Since the dawn of the Web and ubiquitous free e-mail services over the past two decades, the need to secure personal information online has been evident but often...
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Canadian Team Claims $250,000 Prize For Human-Powered Helicopter
The Canadian AeroVelo team has done what many thought impossible.
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Breakthrough Could Lead to 'artificial Skin' That Senses Touch, Humidity, and Temperature
A newly developed flexible sensor out of tiny gold particles could be used to create electronic skin.
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Robot Mom Would Beat Robot Butler in Popularity Contest
Researchers have found that people express more positive feelings toward a robot that takes care of them than toward a robot that needs care.
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Computational Photography: The Snap Is Only the Start
Imagine a camera that allows you to see through a crowd to get a clear view of someone who would otherwise be obscured, a smartphone that matches big-budget lenses...
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Researchers Find Bug Bounty Programs Pay Economic Rewards
Bug bounty programs can be as much as 100 times more cost-effective for finding security vulnerabilities than hiring full-time security researchers to do the same...
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Modest Debut of Atlas May Foreshadow Age of 'robo Sapiens'
Moving its hands as if it were dealing cards and walking with a bit of a swagger, a Pentagon-financed humanoid robot named Atlas made its first public appearance...
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5d Optical Memory in Nanostructured Quartz Glass Could Lead to nlimited Lifetime Data Storage
Researchers have experimentally demonstrated the recording and retrieval process of five-dimensional digital data in nanostructured glass by femtosecond laser writing...
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Graphene May Give US Cooler, Longer-Lasting Computers
Cooling is an important and tricky part of modern computing—you don't want those ever-more-functional processors overheating, but you also don't want the cooling...
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