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Open Source Project Builds Mobile Networks Without Big Carriers
Range Networks is working on an open source project that aims to shift mobile network creation from proprietary hardware to inexpensive commodity hardware.
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Building Bicep2: A Conversation with Jamie Bock
Caltech Professor of Physics Jamie Bock and his collaborators announced on March 17, 2014 that they have successfully measured a B-mode polarization signal in the...
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'big Data' Reveals Human Interests, Behavior
Researchers are analyzing big data to identify patterns in what motivates people to become interested in particular things, and what causes them to lose interest...
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The Automotive Internet 'road Map' Is Becoming Easier to Read
Announcements herald greater focus on vehicle-based communication.
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The $1,000 Genome
In Silicon Valley, Moore's law seems to stand on equal footing with the natural laws codified by Isaac Newton.
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Nasa Historic Earth Images Still Hold Research Value
NASA's Seasat satellite became history long ago, but it left a legacy of images of Earth's ocean, volcanoes, forests and other features that were made by the first...
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Obama Creates Climate Tool With Google, Others
The White House has announced its Climate Data Initiative, through which it will partner with organizations to create tools to help communities adapt to climate...
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Volunteers and Algorithms Need Training to Find Mh370
As the search continues for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, crowdsourcing has emerged as a way to allow the public to help scan satellite imagery to find the missing...
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Silicon Valley's Youth Problem
The growing chasm between Silicon Valley's next-generation of technology workers and the old guard might limit the creation of truly meaningful technology.
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In Sickness and in Health: How Big Data Watches Over You
There are few places where you would less expect to find answers about the digital age than Iquitos, Peru.
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Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow
We use Jonathan Ive's products to help us to eat, drink and sleep, to work, travel, relax, read, listen and watch, to shop, chat, date and have sex.
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ACM Turing Award Goes to Pioneer Who Advanced Reliability and Consistency of Computing Systems
Microsoft's Lamport Contributed to Theory and Practice of Building Distributed Computing Systems that Work
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You Can Take Selfies of Your Aorta With This Mini Camera
Scientific studies of selfies have yielded interesting insights on personalities, gender differences, and national moods, but scientist F. Levent Degertekin has...
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The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot
Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake.
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The Future of Brain Implants
What would you give for a retinal chip that let you see in the dark or for a next-generation cochlear implant that let you hear any conversation in a noisy restaurant...
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The Search For Life Across the niverse
When Jeremy Drake was beginning his career in the late 1980s, the question of whether or not we are alone in the universe still seemed beyond the realm of scienc...
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Nasa Technology Views Birth of the Universe
Astronomers are announcing today that they have acquired the first direct evidence that gravitational waves rippled through our infant universe during an explosive...
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Stanford Students Show That Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
The U.S. National Security Agency's telephone metadata program can yield details of the familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations of...
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U.s. to Cede Its Oversight of Addresses on Internet
The United States will give up its role overseeing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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