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Robots Ride the Ocean Blue
When superstorm Sandy was rampaging across the Caribbean and mid-Atlantic, heralded by gale force winds, torrential rain, and surging tides, people rushed to get...
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Microsoft Retools in Fight Against China Pirates
For pirates in China, where illegal software sales greatly outmatch legal ones, a new version of Windows typically means a new treasure ship to plunder.
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China Looks to Lead the Internet of Things
When architect James Law looks in the mirror each morning his reflection is not all that greets him—he can also see the weather report, email messages, and his...
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25-Gpu Cluster Cracks Every Standard Windows Password in <6 Hours
A password-cracking expert has unveiled a computer cluster that can cycle through as many as 350 billion guesses per second.
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Can Disguises Fool Surveillance Technology?
Stick on a fake moustache. Add some glasses. Dye your hair. And perhaps pop on a hat.
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IEDM: Moore's Law Seen Hitting Big Bump at 14-nm Node
The lack of next-generation lithography could mean that chips made at the 14-nm process node will deliver as little as half the performance boost of a new node...
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Research Seeks to Refine Data Transmission for Medical Diagnoses
University of Texas at Dallas professor Xiaohu Guo is researching the theoretical foundations of a type of spectral transformations for 3-D models and is developing...
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7 Secret Ways America's Stealth Armada Stays Off the Radar
It's no secret how America's stealth warplanes primarily evade enemy radars.
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More Radar, Less Radio for Safer Takeoffs And Landings
US Airways Flight 27 was roaring down Runway 15R at Boston's Logan Airport when a pickup truck suddenly pulled into its path.
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Learning to Accept, and Master, a $110,000 Mechanical Arm
After the explosion, Cpl. Sebastian Gallegos awoke to see the October sun glinting through the water, an image so lovely he thought he was dreaming.
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China Developing GPS-on-a-Shoestring Plan
When it comes to satellite navigation systems, everybody's gotta have one.
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An Accelerometer So Good That Only Quantum Mechanics Limits It
We take it for granted now, but the fact that you can flip your phone from portrait to landscape mode depends on accelerometers. As everyone knows, though, the...
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Researchers Develop Featherweight Chips That Dissolve in Water
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed integrated circuits that can stick to the skin and in some cases dissolve in water when they...
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Buggy Software: Achilles Heel of Big-Data-Powered Science?
Software defects are a growing concern in the scientific computing community. A recent workshop focusing on maintainable software practices discussed how software...
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They Know What You're Shopping For
Georgia resident Andy Morar is in the market for a BMW.
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'biology Is a Manufacturing Capability'
Soon we'll be able to engineer living things with mechanical precision, says Tom Knight, father of synthetic biology.
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Point of Light
Caltech researchers have created a device that can focus light into a point just a few nanometers across, a breakthrough they say could lead to next-generation...
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A Rising Tide of Noise Is Now Easy to See
When a hurricane forced the Nautilus to dive in Jules Verne’s "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," Captain Nemo took the submarine down to a depth of 25 fathoms...
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