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Augmented Reality Is Finally Getting Real
In the summer of 2009, Yelp quietly added a feature to its iPhone app that blurred the line between the real and the virtual. If you held your handset up and looked...
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Commercial Blue-Sky Research Lives on at Ibm's Watson Center
In the decades following World War II, the U.S. emerged as the leading center of scientific research through the efforts of three types of institutions: its research...
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New Generation of Virtual Humans Helping to Train Psychologists
University of Southern California professor Albert Rizzo has created virtual humans who can interact with therapists via a computer screen and realistically display...
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Touch Your Philodendron and Control Your Computer: Technology Turns Any Plant Into an Interactive Device
Disney Research scientists have developed Botanicus Interactus, technology that enables houseplants to control a computer or other digital device.
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Curiosity's Martian Playground Is Technically Located in Pasadena
Seventeen miles from downtown L.A., on the campus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, there's a small stretch of earth covered in beach sand, decomposed...
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New Router Enhances the Precision of Woodworking
Anyone who has tried to build a piece of furniture from scratch knows the frustration of painstakingly cutting pieces of wood, only to discover that they won't...
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Silicene: The Future of Electronics?
Italian researchers say they have developed a new kind of silicene, an atomically thin form of silicon, that could revolutionize nanoelectronics.
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Why Drone Pilots Deserve Medals
The escalating dependence on drone pilots, as Maj. Dave Blair agonized in the May-June issue ofAir & Space Power Journal, is undercutting the ability to award combat...
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His Other Car Is on Mars
On Earth, Scott Maxwell drives his red Prius without paying much attention to the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance.
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Nasa's Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing
An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected...
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NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain
NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday...
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Lasers, Cameras, and Particle Detectors: Mars Rover's Super High-Tech Science Gear
Assuming it safely passes through its terrifying and complex descent sequence, NASA's newest rover, Curiosity, should get its wheels on the Martian surface in just...
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Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
Gen. Keith Alexander is the director of the National Security Agency and oversees U.S. Cyber Command, which means he leads the government's effort to protect America...
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Hey, Hackers: Defense Is Sexy, Too
Pleasing the crowd at the Black Hat and Def Con computer security conferences that took place in Las Vegas last week is relatively easy: simply hop on stage and...
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Newest Nasa Mars Mission Connects Past and Future
NASA's newest Mars mission, landing in two days, will draw on support from missions sent to Mars years ago and will contribute to missions envisioned for future...
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A Computer Infection That Can Never Be Cured
French hacker Jonathan Brossard recently developed Rakshasa, software that can be hidden inside the hardware of a PC, creating a backdoor that would allow secret...
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Is There a Virtual Mars in Our Future?
Imagine a day when virtual reality gets so good that you could take a computer-generated walk on the Martian surface, right here on Earth.
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Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons
For all their progress, computers are still pretty unimpressive.
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Nsa Boss Wants More Control Over the 'net
The U.S. Internet's infrastructure needs to be redesigned to allow the NSA to know instantly when overseas hackers might be attacking public or private infrastructure...
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