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Consortium Wants Standards For 'internet of Things'
Attention: Internet of Things. For better or worse, big boys are in the room.
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How Vintage Tech Helped S Track the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
The saga of MH370, the Malaysian Airlines flight missing for more than two weeks, seems to be entering its final chapter.
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Justice Scalia Looks Forward to Hearing Nsa Spying Case
Justice Antonin Scalia signaled during a law school talk on March 21 that the Supreme Court is very much aware that legal challenges to the National Security Agency's...
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Don't Let Personal Data Escape Your Smartphone
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne researchers have developed an application that automatically secures shared information on a mobile phone.
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Robotic Arm Probes Chemistry of 3-D Objects By Mass Spectrometry
Researchers have developed a system that enables scientists to better simulate and analyze the chemical reactions of early Earth on the surface of real rocks.
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All Android Devices at Risk of Being Hacked When Installing Os System pdates
Security researchers have uncovered a new class of vulnerabilities in the Android operating system.
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niversity of Twente Tool Makes Scanning the Internet For Illegal Images Possible
A new system makes it possible to scan Internet traffic for illegal photographs without infringing on users' privacy rights.
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Which College—and Which Major—will Make You Richest?
A Bachelor of Science from Harvey Mudd College, the small California science and engineering school, is the most valuable college degree in America.
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DARPA to Mine 'big Code' to Improve Software Reliability
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks to address the software defects that underlie most system errors and security vulnerabilities.
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Dwarf Planet Stretches Solar System's Edge
The Solar System just got a lot more far-flung.
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New Focus For Robotics: Artificial Creativity
The founding director of the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech is exploring how creative robots can be.
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The Virtual Genius of Oculus Rift
To understand why Oculus Rift matters, it helps to know who John Carmack is.
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The Robot Tricks to Bridge the Uncanny Valley
If A robot bleeped and squeaked with personality like R2D2 from Star Wars, would you like it better?
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Artificial Intelligence Challenge: Could a Robot Give Its Own Ted Talk?
The TED organization has partnered with X Prize to develop a competition to have an AI-based robot "deliver a compelling TED Talk with no human involvement."
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Tiny Transistors For Extreme Environs
University of Utah electrical engineers have fabricated the smallest transistors that can withstand the temperatures and radiation found in a nuclear reactor.
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Newest Bug Bounty Touts $10K Rewards, Appeals for Help in Finding Flash Flaws
The Internet Bug Bounty program recently paid $10,000 each to a pair of security researchers for vulnerabilities they found in Flash.
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Software Would Make 3D Maps sing Smartphones
Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Google have developed software that can create a three-dimensional map with a smartphone.
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