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Casino Cheats Snared by Smart Camera System
People trying to cheat in casinos may soon be taking more of a gamble than they realise. Grosvenor Casinos, a major UK chain, is assessing software that can spot...
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3D Chips: The Next Electronics Revolution
The semiconductor industry is moving toward three-dimensional (3D) chip design, stacking dies and moving data from one layer to another.
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Feds Shift Tracking Defense
The U.S. Department of Justice now says its use of a cellphone-tracking device in a controversial Arizona case could be considered a "search" under the Fourth...
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Japan Pushes World's Fastest Computer Past 10 Petaflop Barrier
The Japanese have broken the 10 petaflop barrier. On Wednesday, Japanese IT giant Fujitsu and the government-funded RIKEN research lab announced the supercomputer...
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Stuxnet Raises 'blowback' Risk In Cyberwar
The Stuxnet computer worm, arguably the first and only cybersuperweapon ever deployed, continues to rattle security experts around the world, one year after its...
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New Hybrid Technology Could Bring 'quantum Information Systems'
Purdue University researchers are developing a new hybrid technology that could lead to a new approach to quantum computing. The technology would use metamaterials...
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Pitt Research Team Finds Ways to Reduce Computing Energy Consumption While Saving Money
University of Pittsburgh researchers are developing computer memory technology that could lower energy consumption associated with computer data storage. They...
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H.p. Builds Servers With Cellphone Chips
Hewlett-Packard announced on Tuesday a new design for some of the world's largest computer centers and says it could reduce power consumption in some cases by...
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How Your iPhone Chip Will Reinvent the Internet Data Center
Jonathan Heiliger is the kind of guy you want running your data center.
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Arm Cto Predicts Chips the Size of Blood Cells
In less than a decade, that smartphone you're holding could have 32 times the memory, 20 times the bandwidth and a microprocessor core no bigger than a red blood...
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The Future of Riots
On 6 August, peaceful protests over the police shooting of a local man in London's Tottenham district exploded into full-blown riots. During four days of assaults...
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How Technical Glitches Foiled the Russian Sleeper Spies
Spying for Russia can be a hard life. The feds are on your trail, always trying to find out who you’re meeting with and talking to.
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A New Chapter For E-Books
The problem with the Harry Potter series, for me and many others, was that it had to end.
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Headless, Humanoid Robot Preps For Army Duty
Sauntering toward you like a mechanized zombie is the Army’s newest recruit: a robot with a blinking red light where its head should be.
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A Deeper Look Into Space
NASA hopes the James Webb Space Telescope, which can detect ancient light that its predecessors can’t, will reveal more information about the origins of the universe...
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The Making of Arduino
How five friends engineered a small circuit board that’s taking the DIY world by storm.
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The Genius of Jobs
One of the questions I wrestled with when writing about Steve Jobs was how smart he was. On the surface, this should not have been much of an issue.
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Microsoft Sees Screens Everywhere in Futuristic Video
Say what you will about Microsoft's execution in developing cool products and services consumers want, where rivals such as Apple and Google have stolen a beat...
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