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The Race to a $100 Genome
Mark Costa has a higher-than-average risk of stomach cancer, a lower-than-average risk for Alzheimer's, and he metabolizes caffeine very slowly.
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Overprotection May Be Hampering Hunt For Mars Life
There are aliens on Mars—and they came from Earth.
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Mozilla Lab Wants Scientists to Step Out of Analog Age
Mozilla is creating a science lab that will enable researchers to explore ways to make research faster, more agile, and collaborative.
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White House Should Develop Cyberspace Deterrence Policy, Says Sasc
President Barack Obama should formulate a deterrence policy for cyberspace, says the Senate Armed Services Committee in a legislative report.
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'password Fatigue' Haunts Internet Masses
Passwords have proliferated so broadly that it is a daily struggle for users to cope with dozens of them, a syndrome known as password fatigue.
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Team Creates Techniques For High-Quality, High-Resolution Stereo Panoramas
New methods promise to correct the problems of steroscopic panoramas, yielding high-quality panoramas at megapixel resolutions.
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New Stanford Software Helps Identify Cost-Effective Ways to Invest in Clean Water
The new Resource Investment Optimization System (RIOS) is an open source program designed to help identify cost-effective investments for clean and reliable water...
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Father's Genetic Quest Pays Off
Hugh Rienhoff says that his nine-year-old daughter, Bea, is "a fire cracker", "a tomboy" and "a very sassy, impudent girl". But in a forthcoming research paper,...
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Cfp Conferees Debate Government Surveillance, Cyber-Offensives, Copyright Reform
Coverage of the 23rd Annual Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference, titled "Our Computers, Our Freedom: Can You Trust Anyone in the Digital Age?"
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Submarine Internet Cables Are a Gift For Spooks
It's a golden age for spying. The subsea fibre-optic cables that carry telephone and Internet traffic are a technological marvel—and a gift to intelligence agencies...
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The Watchers
Looking down from 500 miles above Earth's surface, you could watch the FedEx Custom Critical Delivery truck move across the country along 3,140 miles of highway...
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Intel Links Many Screens Into a Giant, Wireless Display
The Display as a Service (DaaS) wireless technology enables a single screen image to be shown on a wall of displays all working as parts of a large display.
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Rosphere: a Spherical Robot For Exploration Missions
The ROSPHERE spherical robot has no wheels or legs, but is able to scroll by itself to conduct missions in wild environments, and is inherently stable.
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New Algorithm Finds Best Routes For One-Way Car Sharing
A newly developed vehicle-routing algorithm is designed to help rebalance one-way vehicle-sharing systems.
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How to Fit 1,000 Terabytes on a Dvd
Researchers have developed a technique that increases the data capacity of a single DVD from 4.7 gigabytes to one petabyte.
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Gauging the Risk of Fraud From Social Media
A researcher is working to enable more accurate predictions of a person's risk of fraudulent behavior by linking social media data with government data.
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Privacy Paradox: Americans Happy to Share Personal Data With Big Business
It's official: Americans may freak out when government collects their data to track terrorists, but they would happily have banks use it to catch some jerk trying...
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Spark: Open Source Superstar Rewrites Future of Big Data
Ram Sriharsha works in the engine room powering one of Silicon Valley's most influential companies. He’s an engineer at Yahoo.
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