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Northwestern Researchers Create 'rubber-Band Electronics'
Northwestern University researchers have developed a design that enables electronics to bend and stretch more than 200 percent of their original size using a combination...
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How Software-Defined Radio Could Revolutionize Wireless
In 1976, two shaggy-haired college dropouts founded a company called Apple to manufacture personal computers. The company's prospects looked so poor that the third...
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Drone Hijacking? That
On the evening of June 19, a group of researchers from the University of Texas successfully hijacked a civilian drone at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico...
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The Robot of the Future That's About to Explore the Deep Past of Mars
I want to tell you about a special place on the surface of Mars. Back in the solar system's early days, a large object slammed into the red planet, leaving behind...
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The nified Theory of Wu
Virginia Tech Associate Professor at Wu-chun Feng, commonly known as "Wu," talks about productivity and his latest work on supercomputers.
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Smart Headlights See through Rain and Snow
A prototype headlight system can detect raindrops or snow streaks and "dis-illuminate" them, thereby increasing visibility on the road ahead.
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Start-Up Attempts to Convert Prof Hawking's Brainwaves Into Speech
An American scientist is to unveil details of work on the brain patterns of Prof Stephen Hawking he says could help safeguard the physicist's ability to communicate...
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Hackers Steal BMWs in 3 Minutes Using Security Loophole
There has been an unusual spike in the number of BMWs stolen in the U.K. this year, with some sources suggesting the number may be 300 cars or higher. The cars...
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Mind Control Moves Into Battle
Technology that taps into a soldier's thought patterns could soon see action on the battlefield.
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New Technology Slashes Data Center Energy Consumption
A new energy-aware plug-in can reduce energy consumption in data centers by more than 20 percent, according to researchers with the European Union-funded FIT4Green...
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Mars Panorama: Next Best Thing to Being There
From fresh rover tracks to an impact crater blasted billions of years ago, a newly completed view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration...
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Nbc, Google, Stage 'war Games' To Prepare For Olympic Disruptions
NBC and Google are conducting "war games" in at least three countries, to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online...
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England V Germany: Goal-Line Technology Decision Imminent
Football's world governing body Fifa and other organisations are preparing to vote on something many fans of the game have been crying out for: goal-line technology...
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Want a Terabyte Ipad? Then You'll Want to Read This
In the latter half of the 19th century, the introduction of elevators and steel trusses enabled us to put up taller buildings with denser cores. It changed urban...
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In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again
Since the mid-1990s Liam Casey, PCH International's chief executive officer, has helped technology companies with the nastiest task in Silicon Valley: building...
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Melanin Considered for Bio-Friendly Electronics
University of Queensland researchers recently published a study that provides insight into the electrical properties of melanin and its biologically compatible...
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Clothing the Body Electric
Electronics will be part of our wardrobe in the future, says University of South Carolina professor Xiaodong Li, who has turned the material in a cotton T-shirt...
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A Code of Conduct, For Drones?
It's a bird. It's a plane. Actually, it's a drone. And now those unmanned aircraft, best known for being used by the U.S. to kill terrorism suspects overseas, have...
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Jobs vs. Gates, Redux
It’s difficult to find two people who have had a greater influence on people’s lives than Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
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