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Star Buzzed Solar System During Human Prehistory
A recently discovered stellar neighbour of the Sun penetrated the extreme fringes of the Solar System—the closest encounter ever documented—at around the time that...
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Stanford Engineer Produces Free Braille-Writer App
Stanford University researchers have developed iBrailler Notes, an iPad app they say is the world's first Braille writing platform designed for a tablet computer...
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Apple Gears p to Challenge Tesla in Electronic Cars
Apple reportedly has several hundred of its employees working on a project to create a new Apple-branded electric vehicle.
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Rare Alan Turing Journal Shows His Genius at Work
Two decades after its discovery, a rare handwritten journal belonging to computing pioneer Alan Turing will be auctioned off this spring in San Francisco.
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Did Nsa Plant Spyware in Computers Around World?
Did the National Security Agency plant spyware deep in the hard drives of thousands of computers used by foreign governments, banks and other surveillance targets...
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Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker
Google's research arm, Google X, is called the company's Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word "Moonshot" was to remind people to tackle big...
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Exotic States Materialize With Supercomputers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used supercomputers to find a new class of materials that possess an exotic state of matter.
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To Avert Another Heartbleed, Open Source Group Narrows List of Projects in Need of Support
The Core Infrastructure Initiative was formed to identify and provide extra funding to critical open source projects that need help ensuring the security of their...
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Google Retires Spdy in Favor of Http/2
Google plans to phase out its SPDY open networking protocol in early 2016 and instead support HTTP/2 in Chrome.
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Cynthia Breazeal: Social Robotics Pioneer. MIT Lab Leader. Proud Mom
In an interview, Cynthia Breazeal, director of the robotics lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and creator of the Jibo family robot, explores her...
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In Image-Guided Operating Suites, Surgeons See Real-Time Mri, Ct Scans
Surgeons sometimes fly blind when operating on hard-to-reach anatomical parts or hard-to-see conditions.
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The Coming Boom In Brain Medicines
Tony Coles could have had any job he wanted in the drug industry.
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European Languages Linked to Migration from the East
A mysterious group of humans from the east stormed western Europe 4,500 years ago—bringing with them technologies such as the wheel, as well as a language that...
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How to Interest Girls in Computer Science and Engineering? Shift the Stereotypes
A University of Washington study identifies inaccurate, negative stereotypes as the key culprits in the underrepresentation of women in computer science and engineering...
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Vint Cerf Warns of 'digital Dark Age'
Former ACM president Vint Cerf worries a forthcoming "digital Dark Age" will leave behind mountains of data people will no longer be able to access.
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Robots Can Build Cars; Now They Learn Not to Crush You
Robots long ago earned a place in factories, where their pneumatic pumps and steel welding arms help manufacture everything from cars to planes.
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A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Nearly Impossible to Reverse-Engineer
Software reverse engineering, the art of pulling programs apart to figure out how they work, is what makes it possible for sophisticated hackers to scour code for...
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Doe Pilots Big Data Infrastructure Projects
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers recently demonstrated what could be gained when facilities and tools are linked to complete specialized research...
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