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Dna Nanobots Deliver Drugs in Living Cockroaches
Researchers have introduced DNA nanobots that can dispense drugs into living cockroaches.
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U.s. Cyber Challenge Opens Registration For Cyber Quests Competition
Students and professionals have until April 29 to register for the Cyber Quests online contest that could yield an invitation to a week-long Cyber Camp this summer...
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Supreme Court Weighing When Online Speech Becomes Illegal Threat
When does an online threat become worthy of criminal prosecution?
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How the U.s. Built the World's Most Ridiculously Accurate Atomic Clock
Throw out that lame old atomic clock that's only accurate to a few tens of quadrillionths of a second.
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Twitter Is Surprisingly Accurate at Predicting Unemployment
Twitter is full of relative junk: tweets you don't want to read from people you're not all that interested in knowing, almost all of them chiming in on topics (see ...
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Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines
Hackers are exploiting overlooked vulnerabilities in third-party access points ranging from online restaurant menus to soda machines to heating and cooling systems...
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Data Mining Uncovers 19th Century Britain's Fat Habit
The Trading Consequences project has produced new insight into how fat became a worldwide commodity.
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Stanford Computer Scientists Learn to Predict Which Photos Will Go Viral on Facebook
Stanford University researchers have developed a method for predicting which photos on Facebook will go viral.
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The Bug that Rocked the Foundations of the Web
Late on Monday afternoon, the details of one of the most serious security problems to ever affect the modern web were posted online.
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Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines
They came in through the Chinese takeout menu.
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Steve Matteson: Fonts in the Time of Wearables
As gadgets get smaller, and mobile manufacturers find new ways to shrink their devices to fit on a user's wrist, people like Steve Matteson are focused on keeping...
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Half-Century Milestone For Ibm Mainframes
The IBM mainframe is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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High-Tech Items Giving Deaf-Blind Online Access
Tanisha Verdejo loves to surf the Internet for shopping deals. She chats on Facebook, learns about new recipes and enjoys sending emails to friends and family.
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5 Biometric Alternatives to the Password
There are many things that make you special: Your sense of humor, your dance moves, your personal style, the shape of your ear.
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Inside the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program
The White House Office of Science and Technology's Jennifer Pahlka discusses the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, which she helps oversee.
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As Human Laws Grapple with Robots, There Are No Easy Answers
There's been a lot of buzz about robots lately.
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A Veteran Programmer Explains How the Stock Market Became "Rigged"
A small group of financial firms are using their technological superiority to skim the top off the market, Michael Lewis claims in his new book "Flash Boys."
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Explore Angkor Wat with Google Street View
Angkor, what remains of the capital of the Khmer Empire, is an incredibly beautiful place, but it's also very remote: tucked in the Cambodian jungle, at the intersection...
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Harnessing the Power of Hashtags to Tackle Climate Change
The #Climate mobile app is designed to help build momentum for climate change policies by connecting influential persons to nonprofits via a social network model...
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