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New 2-D Material for Next Generation High-Speed Electronics
Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and RMIT University have developed a two-dimensional material they say could revolutionize...
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Can This Man Save Pinball?
The last guys who tried to save pinball bet all their quarters on a bunch of 3D aliens.
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Student Suspended For Refusing to Wear Rfid Tracker Loses Lawsuit
A Texas high school student who claimed her student identification was the "Mark of the Beast" because it was implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip...
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Revolutionary Paper Tablet Computer Is Thin and Flexible as Sheets of Paper
Researchers at Queen's University, Intel Labs, and Plastic Logic have developed PaperTab, a tablet computer that looks and feels like a sheet of paper. PaperTab...
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U.s. Nuclear Lab Removes Chinese Tech Over Security Fears
A leading U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory recently discovered its computer systems contained some Chinese-made network switches and replaced at least two components...
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It's All About the Genes and the Brain Machines
The amount of time and money needed to sequence genomes continued to fall in 2012, perhaps to no one’s surprise.
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Feds Requiring 'black Boxes' in All Motor Vehicles
While many automakers have voluntarily installed the devices already, the National Transportation Safety Agency wants to hear your comments by February 11 on its...
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China to Build Another 100-Petaflops Hybrid Supercomputer By 2014?
The Chinese Ministry of Science has commissioned a new 100-petaflop supercomputer to be used in space exploration and health care research, according to a VR-Zone...
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Computer Scientists Find Vulnerabilities in Cisco Voip Phones
Columbia University researchers have found significant vulnerabilities in Cisco voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephones, and have demonstrated how they can...
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Antarctic Irc: How Nasa's Flying Lab Stays Connected
Mars and Antarctica have a lot in common: They're both cold, inhospitable places with terrible broadband service.
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Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—take Our Jobs
It's hard to believe you'd have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force.
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All the World's a Game, and Business Is a Player
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Electronics Develop a Sixth Sense
This year's Consumer Electronics Show is being dominated by the term "context awareness," which describes technology that enables products to pick up clues to users'...
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Billions and Billions of Planets
Look up at the night sky and you'll see stars, sure. But the sky is also filled with planets—billions and billions of them at least.
From ACM Opinion
The Future of Medicine Is Now
In our era of instant gratification, the world of medicine seems like an outlier.
From ACM Careers
Communications Satellites Made Legal For Export
To the delight of American satellite makers, communications satellites—which orbit Earth to relay phone calls, link ships to shore and broadcast television programs—will...
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Popular Office Phones Vulnerable to Eavesdropping Hack, Researchers Say
High-tech telephones common on many workplace desks in the U.S. can be hacked and turned into eavesdropping devices, researchers at Columbia University have discovered...
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Military Must Prep Now For 'mutant' Future, Researchers Warn
The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher...
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Never-Before-Seen Stage of Planetary Birth Revealed
Astronomers studying a newborn star have caught a detailed glimpse of planets forming around it, revealing a never-before seen stage of planetary evolution.
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