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How Google Transfers Data to Nsa
How does Google hand over data to the government? By old-fashioned secure "file transfer protocol," or FTP. And sometimes even by hand.
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DARPA Robotics Challenge: The Search For the Perfect Robot Soldier
The Atlas robot looks something out of the post-apocalyptic future, or maybe a Will Smith blockbuster. It's a 330lb cyborg with eerily human-like hands and a head...
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How the .s. ses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly
When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new ways to comb through the troves of phone records, e-mails, and other data piling up as digital communications...
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2-D Electronics Take a Step Forward
Scientists hope to join molybdenum disulfide, a semiconductor, with graphene, which has no band gap, and hexagonal boron nitride, an insulator, to form field-effect...
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What Would Happen If All Satellites Stopped Working?
We may not always realise it, but we depend on space technology orbiting the Earth.
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Raspberry Pi Gets Easier to Use With Noobs Software
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is offering downloadable software that makes its mini-computer easier to use.
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Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton Lets Paralyzed People Walk
MindWalker is the first exoskeleton that aims to allow paralyzed people to walk using only their minds.
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Google Facial Password Patent Aims to Boost Android Security
A recent Google patent application suggests users stick out their tongue in place of a password, to keep the Face Unlock facility from being fooled by photos.
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How Big Data Helps Big Cities
June 1 marked the first National Day of Civic Hacking, during which cities across the United States invited programmers to come together and improve local government...
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Studying Hurricanes With Swarms of Smart Drones
Remember in Twister when they threw all those little sensors into the tornado? University of Florida scientists are working on a similar plan for hurricanes involving...
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Drone Nation: A New Industry Takes Flight
By 2025 the drone industry will employ 100,000 people and be worth $82 billion globally, according to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International...
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'hidden' Economy in Silicon Valley Built Without Advanced Degrees
Silicon Valley is world-renowned for the Nobel Prize winners and MacArthur "geniuses" behind theoretical breakthroughs in science, technology, engineering, and...
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Opening the Doors of Deception
IT managers may incorporate a variety of deceptive tactics into their protective strategies to fend off hackers.
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Administration Says Mining of Data Is Crucial to Fight Terror
In early September 2009, an e-mail passed through an Internet address in Peshawar, Pakistan, that was being monitored by the vast computers controlled by American...
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People's Locations Could Be Tracked
Data collected by the National Security Agency's program that monitors Americans' phone calls could be used to track millions of people's locations through their...
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Hacking the Drone War's Secret History
In 2008 U.S. troops in Iraq discovered that Shi’ite insurgents had figured out how to tap and record video feeds from overhead American drones. Now you too can...
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Atom by Atom, Bond by Bond, a Chemical Reaction Caught in the Act
When Felix Fischer of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory set out to develop nanostructures made of graphene using a new, controlled...
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If Our Gadgets Could Measure Our Emotions
On a recent family outing, my mother and sister got into a shouting match. But they weren’t mad at each other—they were yelling at the iPhone’s turn-by-turn navigation...
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As Data Floods In, Massive Open Online Courses Evolve
In 2012, education startups attracted millions of students—and a surge of interest from universities and the media—by offering massive open online courses, or MOOCs...
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