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How the Boston Pd Could Examine the Videos From the Bombing
As investigators try to figure out what happened during the bombings at the Boston Marathon, they'll turn to video taken at the scene of the explosions.
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Military Academies Take on Nsa in Cybersecurity Competition
The Cyber Defense Exercise is an annual cybersecurity contest in which teams from U.S. military academies compete against one from the National Security Agency. ...
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Engineers se Brain Cells to Power Smart Grid
A team of engineers and neuroscientists is using neurons cultured in a dish to control simulated power grids.
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Google Emulates Apple in Restricting Apps For Glass
Google is restricting apps for Glass, its Internet-linked glasses, in an effort to gradually introduce the technology to the public.
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High-Speed Wi-Fi? Not So Fast
Next-generation Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac will hit the market this year, but most people will have to wait to access to the increased throughput.
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Google Activates Person Finder in Aftermath of Boston Marathon Bombings
Google activated the Google Person Finder website in Boston to help people connect after the bombings at the Boston Marathon.
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How to Target an Asteroid
Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days.
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AI Scientist Robert Wilensky, 1951-2013
One of the first computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, to focus on artificial intelligence, Robert Wilensky passed away recently at age...
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As Boston Bombing Photos and Videos Pour In, Where Do Investigators Begin?
When bombs went off at the Boston Marathon finish line Monday, there were nearly as many camera-equipped smartphones as people there in Copley Square.
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Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun
Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...
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Will Google's Ray Kurzweil Live Forever?
Ray Kurzweil must encounter his share of interviewers whose first question is: What do you hope your obituary will say?
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'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley
It doesn't look like much.
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Researcher Says Science Is Very Social
Researchers are using computers to study social networks, in order to identify the next revolution in social science.
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Layered '2-D Nanocrystals' Promising New Semiconductor
A new type of semiconductor technology under development is based on two-dimensional nanocrystals layered in sheets less than a nanometer thick.
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Iowa State Researchers Discover Possible Route to Terahertz Storage Speeds
Ultra-short laser pulses and special materials can be used to switch magnetism about 1,000 times faster than current storage devices, say researchers.
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Breaking Moore's Law: How Chipmakers Are Pushing Pcs to Blistering New Levels
Chipmakers are engaged in projects to greatly accelerate personal computer speed and power, despite coming up against the limits of Moore's Law.
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Nasa, Air Force Define Cutting-Edge Next-Gen Space Computer
NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate have issued a call for R&D into a next-generation computer system for spacecraft.
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Crowdsourced Videos, Photos Could Aid Boston Blast Investigations
Law enforcement officials could have something very different on their hands as they investigate the dual bomb blasts that struck the Boston Marathon finish line...
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Human Genome, Then and Now
Eight years of work, thousands of researchers around the world, $1 billion spent—and finally it was done.
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