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Hive-Mind Solves Tasks Using Google Glass Ant Game
Swarm! is a game that connects Google Glass wearers to a virtual ant colony and asks them to solve real-world problems.
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Seeing Depth Through a Single Lens
A newly developed method allows photographers to create a three-dimensional image through a single lens, without moving the camera.
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Next Step in Facial Imaging
A new system capable of recording moving human images in three dimensions allows scientists to research facial movement.
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Silent Circle Follows Lavabit in Shuttering Encrypted Email
Silent Circle shuttered its encrypted email service on Thursday, the second such closure in just a few hours in an apparent attempt to avoid government scrutiny...
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Integrating Left Brain and Right, on a Computer
As computers have matured over time, the human brain has no way of keeping up with silicon's rapid-fire calculating abilities.
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Bigshot Diy Camera Aims to Teach Kids Tech Basics
Owners of Bigshot's device need to assemble its parts in a specific sequence to make it work. An online guide explains the science behind them.
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Moore's Law Could Stay On Track with Extreme v Progress
Long-awaited improvements in photolithography could pave the way for the continued shrinking and scaling of microprocessors into the second half of this decade...
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N.s.a. Said to Search Content of Messages to and From U.s.
The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans' email and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people...
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Xerox Scanners Found to Sometimes Alter Numbers
Xerox scanners sometimes randomly alter numbers on documents when reproducing them if a specific combination of image quality and compression settings are used. ...
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Understanding Interface Properties of Graphene Paves Way for New Applications
A new technique to improve the stretchability of graphene should help engineers and designers create new technologies that utilize the material.
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Congress Posts .s. Code in Xml
The U.S. House of Representatives has published all 51 titles of the U.S. Code in XML format for download, as part of the its open government initiative.
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3D Ir Images Now in Full Color
A new non-destructive three-dimensional (3D) imaging technique provides molecular-level chemical information on biological and other specimens.
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Making a Mini Mona Lisa
Researchers have painted a miniature copy of the Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 microns in width, using an atomic force microscope.
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If We Landed on Europa, What Would We Want to Know?
Most of what scientists know of Jupiter's moon Europa they have gleaned from a dozen or so close flybys from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979 and NASA's Galileo...
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Museums Go Mobile
Mobile apps are redefining and reinventing the modern museum, ushering in a new era of interactivity and immersion.
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A Videogame That Recruits Players to Map the Brain
I'm no neuroscientist, and yet, here I am at my computer attempting to reconstruct a neural circuit of a mouse’s retina.
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One Year Later, Nasa Looks Back at Curiosity Rover's Scariest Moment
For the Curiosity rover, it's just another day on Mars—but back on Earth, Tuesday was a day to look back at the $2.5 billion mission's first year, including a moment...
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We the Geeks: 'robots'
The White House will host a "We the Geeks" Google+ Hangout on "Robots" this Friday, Aug. 9.
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Emotion-Sniffing Is Next Trick Your Phone Is Learning
Rice University scientists, working with Microsoft Research, have created something rather surprising—a long-term-mood detecting device that can ascertain a user's...
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