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New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans For World's Most Popular Mobile Os
For the past few years, Sundar Pichai has been part of a tag-team routine staged at Google's annual I/O developer conference.
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Spintronics Discovery
Researchers have confirmed the presence of a magnetic field generated by electrons, a finding they say expands the potential to harness the "spin" of electrons. ...
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Touching the Future: Artificial Skin Isn't Sci-Fi
A whisper-thin new pressure sensor could be a step toward creating artificial skin that is able to actually feel.
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Litterbugs Beware: Turning Found Dna Into Portraits
Heather Dewey-Hagborg was sitting in a therapy session a while ago and noticed a painting on the wall. The glass on the frame was cracked, and lodged in the crack...
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Why Even Google Will Embrace Cellphone Chips in the Data Center
A recent research paper suggests Google can achieve significant cost savings by using specific processors for particular software tasks.
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Landlords Double as Energy Brokers
The trophy high-rises on Madison, Park, and Fifth Avenues in Manhattan have long commanded the top prices in the country for commercial real estate, with yearly...
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The Evolution of the Web, in a Blink
The Web browser you're probably using to read this article is a small marvel of engineering.
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Neuroprosthetics: Once More, With Feeling
Sitting motionless in her wheelchair, paralysed from the neck down by a stroke, Cathy Hutchinson seems to take no notice of the cable rising from the top of her...
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Inside the Drone Economy
Last month the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the unmanned systems industry's largest trade organization, released its first economic study...
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Better Origami sing Nature and Maths
Paper folding isn’t just an art, it can help fit everything on spacecraft from solar panels to telescope mirrors.
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Researchers at Parc Give S a Glimpse of the Future
It was a high-tech speed-dating session, Silicon Valley-style: I would sit in the storied memorabilia-laden Room 2306 in the bowels of PARC, the former Xerox research...
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What to Expect When Elevators and Toys Start Phoning Home
Your next elevator pitch might actually come from data derived from your elevator.
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U.s. Cyberwar Strategy Stokes Fear of Blowback
Even as the U.S. government confronts rival powers over widespread Internet espionage, it has become the biggest buyer in a burgeoning gray market where hackers...
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Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Israel's Main Infrastructure Control System
The Syrian Electronic Army launched a successful cyberattack on the main infrastructure system of Haifa, one of the most important ports in Israel, disrupting the...
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A Quantum Computer Aces Its Test
The long-sought quantum computer, a machine potentially far ahead of today's best supercomputers, is almost as hard to define as it is to build.
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Big Data from Cheap Phones
At a computer in her office at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, epidemiologist Caroline Buckee points to a dot on a map of Kenya's western highlands...
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China's Cyberspies Outwit Model For Bond's Q
Among defense contractors, QinetiQ North America is known for spy-world connections and an eye-popping product line.
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Apple: An End to Skeuomorphic Design?
Why do most smartphones make a clicking noise, like a camera shutter closing, when you take a picture with them? Why do the virtual pages of a book on a tablet...
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Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite
On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That's more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com, HBO...
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