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NASA's Mars Curiosity Debuts Autonomous Navigation
The Curiosity Mars rover recently used autonomous navigation to drive onto ground that could not be confirmed safe before the start of the drive.
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Neutron Stars in the Computer Cloud
Using the Einstein@Home project to analyze archival data from the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Australia, researchers have discovered 24 pulsars.
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Hack Attacks, Explained
Harvard University professor Jonathan L. Zittrain says recent cyberattacks on media outlets offer lessons on how institutions can guard against future incidents...
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3-D Mapping in Real Time, Without the Drift
A new mapping algorithm that creates real-time, detailed three-dimensional maps of indoor and outdoor environments.
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Nissan Plans to Offer Affordable Self-Driving Cars By 2020
Nissan says it is on track to begin selling self-driving cars by the end of this decade.
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Drug Agents se Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.s.a.'s
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that...
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A Robot to Beat Humans at Foosball
Students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed a foosball-playing robot. The machine uses one computer to control the movement...
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The Insane and Exciting Future of the Bionic Body
Bertolt Meyer pulls off his left forearm and gives it to me.
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How 'cell Tower Dumps' Caught the High Country Bandit—and Why It Matters
On February 18, 2010, the FBI field office in Denver issued a "wanted" notice for two men known as "the High Country Bandits"—a rather grandiose name for a pair...
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DARPA Creates Cloud sing Smartphones
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is testing new software-based approaches for creating cloud-like computing networks using smartphones...
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Strands Project Develops Robot Security Guards
The European Union's Seventh Framework Program is funding the Strands project, which is developing software for robot brains that can be used as security guards...
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.s. Appetite For Internet ser Data Not nique
Despite recent concerns about information collection by the United States, law enforcement agencies in Europe and other nations appear to gather equal or greater...
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Adept Emphasizes Energy-Efficient Parallelism
The European Union-funded ADEPT project is exploring the energy-efficient use of parallel technologies. ADEPT aims to help high-performance computing software...
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Vending Machines Get Smart to Accommodate the Cashless
More than 40 percent of U.S. adults say they can go a week without paying for something with cash, according to a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports last year...
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Inside the Response to the New York Times Attack
Late Tuesday morning, one of the engineers in CloudFlare's San Francisco office saw a message on Twitter saying that the New York Times Web site was down. Minutes...
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The Proof in the Quantum Pudding
In early May, news reports gushed that a quantum computation device had for the first time outperformed classical computers, solving certain problems thousands...
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A Camera That Sees Like the Human Eye
The retina is an enormously powerful tool. It sorts through massive amounts of data while operating on only a fraction of the power that a conventional digital...
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Scientist Creates Solution For Looming Broadband Shortage
A new method to solve the approaching broadcast spectrum deficit examines how cell networks could optimize spectrum use.
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'zero Knowledge' May Answer Computer Security Question
A new protocol for the creation of a "zero-knowledge proof" involves answering questions that depend on having a secret bit of knowledge.
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